This is wheelchair accessible?  

Friend it has been ages since we have seen you. Why are you in a wheel chair? I have noticed often, while working with the handicapped, that handicap slots are not in safe places. I had to try to help someone to a bathroom at a State Fair Grandstand that the door opened INWARD, blocking the toilet.We had to let her hang on the top of the door and the bathroom attendant assisted me in assisting her. I think the attendant ( an older lady) gave someone an earful. The next year the door was rehinged to open out.

hi I think among the general public there are two things they do notwant to think about, being elderly and or being handicapped so they turn away from putting the handicapped places in place until they are forced to do so, and pretend they are never going to get old. lol . it is not at all funny. the law mandated that handicapped people be able to go into public places in their wheelchairs and not have to be inconvenienced like you have been this is just deplorable to me, I have been places where my own minor handicapped, my left leg in a heavy brace made it almost impossible to get seated at this Red Robin restaurant as most of the seats were elevated and I just could not climb up onto that platform so she , the waitress finally found me a place that was level so I could just walk into like anyone else. lol.she acted like I had really put her out, and yet it only took a minute of her time.

I know this feeling since I got diagnosed with Multiple Sclrosis and I started needed to use bathrooms and walways. I have a time getting into places or bathrooms with my cain or my walker. I never noticed it before or thought about it untill I became handicaped.

my father often had this problem.our town is very old,and a lot of the buildings are too oddly designed to even be retrofitted.the city hall for example had an elevator,but it was too narrow for a wheelchair of an almost 6 foot 5 man.

as far as restaurants go,he always said if they couldn't accomidate him,they didn't need his patronage.
those hostesses sounded pretty brain dead almost hemming you in like that.

My toddler son has spina bifida and hydrocephalus. He is almost three years old and he is unable to walk. He has weak legs and one of his legs is longer than his other leg. He needs help to stand in a pair of gaiters or he requires a standing frame. I have a seven month old baby daughter. Therefore until she learns to walk I use a Phil and Ted's buggy with a double seat. People may comments about my son like 'he is lazy'. They ask why he can't walk. Public transport like trains and buses can be a nightmare. He now has a disabled parking permit and I am learning to drive. He needs catheter care and is getting too big for public restroom baby mats. I know what you mean about wheelchair accessible. Good luck my friend.

We find it very hard to take my son places. Most big stores are ok, but you cannot take him to the little dollar stores without almost tearing the stores apart. You go to a restaurant, and one of us will go in and scope out the seating to see if we can get him through. As for bathrooms, we try not to take him on real long trips and put pull ups on him, because there is just no way that we can get him in most of the public bathrooms. I have to say that when we go to Menards, the have built a special handicap bathroom, that is big enough for his chair and we can take him in, and use their facilities. It is a single bathroom and you can go in and assist. Other than that, you just don't find them. No one realizes until they are in that situation. It is not fun.

Yes I have noticed alot of stall just arent big enough.
Mostly here I see that most places do have room for wheel chairs but then this is Vegas.
I was told I could get that handicap thing for my window since my heart attack but as long as I can walk aways will not do it.
AS I dont look handycapped.

About "noticing people parking in handicap parking places and walking into stores without any visible handicap and wondering how they got their permit" my friend has a handicap parking pass, and when she still had her van, would often walk the short distance into the store unaided. But once inside, she would always get a shopping cart for support, even if she didn't buy anything. It was easier than lugging her walker up and down the house stairs and in and out of the van. And at the mall, she could get a curtesy walker or wheelchair for the duration.

I can sort of say been there, done that. A couple of years back, before I had hip surgery I went to Disney World with some friends. I rented a scooter for the duration of the trip. Luckily, I was able to get out and sit at tables in restaurants there, but did run into many rude people. One time I was leaving a store, and some people just cut infront of me to get around me and out ahead of me. When I said something the guy just waved me off as if I was not there.

I am walking again, but for the past 5 years have worked as an assistant to a lady who uses a chair. I drive her, and go to her work and appointments with her. She needs full assistance in the bathroom. If you think some handicapped stalls har hard to maneuver alone, try with two people there. It is darn near impossible some times. I am very grateful foor the "family" restrooms...which make it much easier when we are out, and I need to go in with her to the bathroom,

I too am in a wheelchair and I find it a little difficult to live in this world. With the creation of the ADA (Americains with disibilities Act) you would think the world would make more of an effort to comply, but they don't. Where I live is a prime example of that.

The office is in no way accessable for the hanycapped. The only thing I see that's handycapped related is one support bar on the end of the wall in the second stall. That's not enough. The way the "stall is designed is two toilits, with one door, and one wall seperating the two tolits with one support bar on the far wall. This is not enough.

When I'm out in public, quite often I can't get into places because they aren't accessable, or accessable enough. It makes me sick to think how they treat people. I've got it difficult enough, and its next to impossible to do much of anything. I even know some places without support bars. that's why I try not to use public places as much as possible.

Normally I don't complain about being a cripple, but god. I'm a cripple damn it.