Comment preview: This is a true story: A long while back I was visiting my grandparents in Florida alone. On the way back up to my home, I was sitting in the airport waiting for the plane to arrive when I noticed a large amount of old people in wheelchairs at the same term ....

Comment preview: Uhhh...That isn't supposed to happen. Even if a person is disabled and needs a wheelchair or aisle chair to board I would hold up the aircraft. The small hit for coding the delay to assisting passenger with disability is much better then the fine and failu ....

Comment preview: I use a wheelchair normally outside of my house, but also sometimes use crutches/leg braces around the house. **Elevators** - I prefer to enter a elevator first, leave last. I wear a backpack with important stuff on my back, and don't want someone grabbing ....

Comment preview: I did something like this at an airport - got off my flight, got own to baggage claim, and it was going to be a while- terrible weather outside. I look for a seat, there are none. I saw a wheelchair in the corner, sat in it, and wheeled myself over near th ....

Comment preview: This one is kind of long. I have a friend who is in a wheelchair, and we decided it would be awesome to go to Hawaii (and it was). However the airport experience is burned into my brain. We got through security with ease, but then we decided we were hun ....

Comment preview: Paralyzed guy here. You get Medicare for being permanently disabled by paralysis. Medicare only covers 80% of your medical expenses. Part B, your doctor visits and medical equipment, is about $100/mo. Part D, your prescription medications, is about $40-50 ....

Comment preview: I'm not the least surprised that Delta did this. They did something similar to me when I was flying while having to use crutches after a recent surgery on my foot. When we booked the flight, we told them my situation and asked for seating at the front of t ....

Comment preview: We stopped over on the way back from Ireland to Aus and decided to get a pint in the airport. First they said they accepted English pounds, but ours were Scottish (same fucken thing) so they wouldn't take them. We got a little shitty (12 hour flight gone, ....

Comment preview: I was 21 on Sept 11th 2001, had just turned actually. One thing I haven't seen mentioned is that before 9/11, America wasn't "at war" with anyone and hadn't been for awhile. Everybody seemed to still be talking about what an idiot George Bush was and how c ....

Comment preview: >This gate agent has to be on a totally distinct level of stupid. There are plenty of stupid people who happen to work at the wrong position while working for an airline. Way wrong position. My mother broke her ankle while in Nicaragua, she didn't want ....

Comment preview: Cops and troops everywhere. Cops that look like troops. Mobile watchtowers set up at major intersections (WTF!?). And this in mid-town Manhattan. The corner of Wall, Broad and Nassau is very nearly a fortified compound. You can't even get onto the sidewalk ....

Comment preview: Uber wants to compete with taxis. At the same time, it claims not to be a taxi service, exempting it from the regulations imposed on competitors. Just one example: 20%(?) or so of any operator's fleet must be wheelchair accessible. Uber hasn't expressed an ....

Comment preview: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy checking in. Apical morphology, not the usual mid-septal thickening. So it's non-obstructive. I have an inverse blood pressure response to exercise, so I can't do anything except walk and maybe some tai chi. Sex is ok if it's ge ....

Comment preview: What got you into beatboxing? Any specific inspiration, or just figuring out how to make the weirdest sounds possible on your own time? --------------------------------------- also, Story Time:     Two summers ago I ran ....

Comment preview: I was in a wheelchair for a long time after injury and surgeries. I was active duty, so the worst part was people assuming the woman in camo in the chair had been injured in the line of duty. It can be very depressing to come into a room and notice the sil ....

Comment preview: Not a flight crew - but ground staff - what do / did we find at the gates - any sort of electronic devices - from cell phones over iPads to laptops. - passports - fake and real - wallets - a baby in a maxi cosi carrier (parents came back from the plane - d ....

Comment preview: My American Airlines late-to-the-gate wheelchair story is completely the opposite of this. This was right after my above-knee amputation and I didn't have a prosthetic yet, so I was traveling with my wheelchair and also crutches. First plane was delayed fo ....

Comment preview: Yeah flying as a disabled person it's a serious pain in the ass. I don't use handicap tags, nor a cane, or electric shopping carts etc, but when you have a bummed up spine and left leg, some help sometimes would be nice. I usually call ahead and set it up: ....

Comment preview: Amtrak isn't all things to all people, nor should it be. * It's useful in the Northeast because downtown-to-downtown, it's as fast (if not a little faster) than flying BOS-NYC, NYC-PHL, NYC-DC, etc. It's also far more comfortable than flying, and doesn't r ....

Comment preview: This was in 1999, so before 9/11. I was at a bachelor party for a friends younger brother. It was made very apparent to nobody really cared for the girl he was going to wed. My friend proceeded to get his brother really, really, really drunk. After he pass ....

Comment preview: My wife and I were honeymooning in St Lucia 5 years ago. The resort we stayed at offered a catamaran cruise to the Pitons. It was great, free drinks, great scenery, weather was perfect. The cruise drops us off at some town to check out the sulfur volcan ....

Comment preview: This is such fucking shit. I spent 4 years working for United ramp service at Dulles airport while in school and I never nor knew of anyone on my ramp treating someone like that in a straightback (the narrow wheelchair they talk about). This is all because ....

Comment preview: While I was in training up in Great Lakes, Illinois I volunteered to do be a sideboy for a couple Honor Flights. It truly was an incredible experience. So many people there "welcoming them home", which is something that probably didn't happen after their w ....

Comment preview: I work for an airline in customer service. People always wonder why airline workers are so grumpy, and I'll tell you. Because you get treated like shit by everybody. Airline agents are underpaid, overworked and have to put up with so much shit it's not eve ....

Comment preview: As a user of Spain's high speed train system (the AVE), I can definitively say high-speed trains are absolutely worth the apparently high down cost. I'll try to highlight some benefits for those who might not have first-hand experience: 1. **Comfort/luxury ....