see Helen I would look on that in the opposite way, when I used to take my late son out in his chair, we really used to appreciate people offering to help, after all what's wrong with people being nice? Believe me its better than the sideway 'awkward' glances and folk looking the other way ! And he was a nice pleasant young feller, god knows how some feel
I just want to be sure I've understood this right (possibly not because I've got lack of sleep/lockdown brain today). You're saying that we should restrict ourselves from offering help to those in a wheelchair because they want to be independent? In the same way holding open a door, giving up your seat on the tube, or letting a woman go first in the queue if 'it's a tie' is also something to be frowned upon? I'm sorry but that just seems rude to me and not an ideology I want to conform to.
this Shtraight ,Shtriker thing is spreading faster than the virus but like the virus doesn't discriminate which sex it affects!
I'm presuming it would depend on the situation. Someone self propelling down the street doesn't need asking. Someone looking stuck unable to reach something probably does need asking. The key thing is definitely *asking* if they need help, some people just walk up to someone in a wheelchair and take the handles and start pushing them across the road, sometimes when they don't even want to cross the road! It's really scary for someone in a wheelchair to just be pushed along by a stranger with nothing they can do to stop it.
Asking anyone is fine. Assuming isn't. And most people are polite and would ask an older, less mobile or someone obviously pregnant or struggling with a toddler if they'd like their seat, I always did on public transport However, if I refused help with a task I was more than capable of performing myself I don't expect men to get narky about it. And it can be belittling, advising how to park for eg.
The scenario you just gave (which I agree with by the way) wasn't even discussed though was it? I think that's what's caught me out a little bit. We're talking in this thread like people contributing to this thread have behaved in this way (or assumed and got narky as @Redhelen describes). I don't think any of us do that so business as usual thankfully.
That is very true. It's always the 'nice guys' too. I think they get offended that we took away their opportunity to look like a hero to us and so get irrationally angry about it.
I think I need more sleep. I read that as "advising how to park an egg." Had me scratching my head for a minute...
Roo Irvine is my favourite on there, who also has a Scottish accent. It must be my problem, then, in not having an issue with a Scot having a Scottish accent.
I love your accent, old mate. It's just that I didn't understand a word of the abuse you hurled at the referee the other year!
Ohh forgot about Roo, it’s not about the accents tbh, it’s just that I find Anitas presenting style really annoying.
Not sure exactly what my outburst was but I’m sure suggesting he was born out of wed lock might be quite close.