RaySharpton
Retired and going to Disney.
- Joined
- Oct 28, 2000
Seriously? I hope this is a joke but I'm thinking it likely is not.
There will probably be an uptick in scooter use with the new DAS system in effect. Some people used to get Guest Assistance Cards to help with their mobility issues. Disney has clamped down on that with the new system by insisting that all mobility issues will be solved by a wheelchair or ECV. So there may be more scooters than before.
You know, I keep hearing about all these scooters with 10, 15, 20 people with them (it keeps getting higher every time we have one of these threads), but I've never seen one. It's amazing how they only appear when there is someone already disgruntled about ECV users.
Too funny son of Gadsden just too funny. Spit my Diet coke out.Not flaming you, but you can't tell by looking at someone if they need the wheelchair/scooter or not.
You go to Disney, you deal with the mob.
Just so you know, you're probably about to meet the mob anyway...in 3....2....
Quite frankly, as long as I'm not pushing an elderly person off her scooter and speeding through crowds and plowing down folks to avoid security, I don't see how it's anyone's business how I get around the parks.
I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this question, so please advise if it needs to be moved. I am just back from a week long trip and it felt like there were more scooters there than strollers!! They were everywhere! This is my first trip back in 5 years and I just can't believe the difference. We stayed at Pop so we used the bus system for transportation. I think maybe twice we didn't have to wait while they loaded a scooter or 2 first, along with all of their family members. The scooters took up 3 seats each, then the families were seated. It way very annoying so have to wait on 2 or 3 buses to come.
I know it sounds as if I am unsympathetic, but I really am not. It's just when you see these people hopping out of them to go eat or go to the restroom and they look like they don't have a problem in the world, it makes you wonder. I would say 90% of them are overweight and I wonder if they aren't just using them to save their feet some discomfort and not because they have a back injury or some other ailment.
Also, some of them seem to be first-time scooter users because they were running over toes and into the back of people's legs.
I've at least learned a lesson from it. I will choose a monorail resort from now on.
Why do you hope it is a joke? If I take a family member to WDW who cannot stand on a bus, I see to it that they don't. I don't pass off that responsibility to total strangers. I think it is ridiculous that people can't be bothered to see to the care of their own family members, but act shocked and appaled when strangers won't do it for them.
I was just at Disney in October and had no problems. Perhaps you had so many because you weren't paying attention? Perhaps you belong on the group of people who I noticed who seemed to think that they have control of the sidewalk and everyone else must get out of the way. FYI, scooters do not have brakes and cannot stop on a dime. You also need to be courteous of others, it certainly sounds as though you are not.Exactly!!! SAFETY for everyone is an issue. I didn't feel like mentioning this specifically in my first post, because it was so traumatizing for us. We are still driving back home from taking our 4 year old for for his first time. He was two steps infront of my husband walking to the stroller parking when a nearly 300 lb woman started to back over my son. He was knocked down and his legs were under the scooter. My husband acted fast and shoved her and the scooter off him. The wheels didn't go over him, we don't think, as there was a small space between the wheels. It was our first day at the parks and was extremely traumatizing for us, and scary to think what else she could have done to our precious son. We are bitter. Saw lots of crazy/annoying drivers he whole trip. Nearly running us down. We drove and didn't have to deal with them and buses- thank god. We plenty of "gangs" of scooters or single riders that appeared not to be with anyone else. Those were the most annoying and frustrating. If a whole family was with one, they seemed like they were trying to direct them. We were lucky to get past it, and it didn't ruin our whole trip, or send my son to the hospital. We saw a middle aged woman with some sort of ankle problem walking through the park with her family. If that lady could do it with her disability, sure seems like a large portion of scooter riders could do it.