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elpenguino

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#2735899 28-Jun-2021 16:24

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MikeB4:

I report incidents but unfortunately the offenders only get ticketed. They should be towed away.

Disabled spots should have trebuchets mounted at the front. If you don't swipe your disability card when you park, it should yeet your car into another suburb.

I'd watch that youtube video

Most of the posters in this thread are just like chimpanzees on MDMA, full of feelings of bonhomie, joy, and optimism. Fred99 8/4/21

colinuu

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#2736468 29-Jun-2021 22:06

Pushing my wife around the supermarket while dragging a trolley behind me over the last few months has been quite illuminating. I can sympathise with many of the comments made in this thread. One thing in particular we have noticed is how many people will step backwards with no idea of who or what is behind them. Someone has nearly landed in her lap on several occasions!

On a positive note, several times some kind person has left their own trolley to help us navigate through the checkout. One person even pushed our trolley right out of the store to our car for me.

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#2736483 29-Jun-2021 23:28

colinuu:

Pushing my wife around the supermarket while dragging a trolley behind me over the last few months has been quite illuminating. I can sympathise with many of the comments made in this thread. One thing in particular we have noticed is how many people will step backwards with no idea of who or what is behind them. Someone has nearly landed in her lap on several occasions!

That happens to me all the time and I am not even in a wheelchair!

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#2736520 30-Jun-2021 08:49

@colinuu some supermarkets (Countdown by my experience) have wheelchair adapted trolleys that a person in the chair can use. In essence you would be a road train, you push your wife and in turn her chair pushes the trolly. I have used it and it works ok. My preference if I have to do shopping when my wife is away I use Countdowns delivery service.

Here is a crazy notion, lets give peace a chance.

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#2736523 30-Jun-2021 08:57

Rikkitic:

colinuu:

Pushing my wife around the supermarket while dragging a trolley behind me over the last few months has been quite illuminating. I can sympathise with many of the comments made in this thread. One thing in particular we have noticed is how many people will step backwards with no idea of who or what is behind them. Someone has nearly landed in her lap on several occasions!

That happens to me all the time and I am not even in a wheelchair!

That's just the nice folks being friendly...

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#2736977 30-Jun-2021 17:15

colinuu:

Pushing my wife around the supermarket while dragging a trolley behind me over the last few months has been quite illuminating. I can sympathise with many of the comments made in this thread. One thing in particular we have noticed is how many people will step backwards with no idea of who or what is behind them. Someone has nearly landed in her lap on several occasions!

Just wait until they've jumped into their cars!

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colinuu

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#2737059 30-Jun-2021 21:02

MikeB4:

@colinuu some supermarkets (Countdown by my experience) have wheelchair adapted trolleys that a person in the chair can use. In essence you would be a road train, you push your wife and in turn her chair pushes the trolly. I have used it and it works ok. My preference if I have to do shopping when my wife is away I use Countdowns delivery service.

Thanks Mike. Our supermarket has two such trolleys, one small size, one large. The large one doesn't link up to the chair properly, the small one works but is not big enough for a weekly shop. I have actually become quite proficient at hooking the base of my hand over the front of the trolley while my fingers hold the wheelchair handle. Happily the height of the handle matches the trolley quite well. The tricky bit is keeping my feet out of the way of the trolley wheels!

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