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Imagine having to navigate your way round our fair town in a wheelchair. If you are a driver you will know just how bad our road surfaces are, well the pavements are even worse.
Look along any stretch of pavement and you will see the scars of countless excavations, these were not rabid archaeologists looking for the original DFL but the remains of BT, Transco, Seeboard, Mid-Kent Water workmen trying to get their act together, and failing.
So you are manoeuvring yourself past the countless dog turd's that act like land-mines going off and embedding themselves in the narrowest tread in your tyres. You try not to capsize your craft in the half-filled holes left by the above companies (by the way, these never have dog turd's in them) while attempting hand-break turns to miss the turd's and you come across this Plank!!!
So after dodging the Dickhead and taking your life in your hands, you venture onto the racetrack where anyone or anything doing less than 35 MPH get abuse from the 4X4 GTi Tdi can't accelerate without me wheels spinning, can't hear meself fart speakers, 4'8" tall drivers in our town shouting "you shouldn't be allowed on the road". Allowed yes, forced NO!
So you hopefully get into town, and if you happen to be looking for work or assistance in finding a job or further training, you make your way to the Job Centre.
There you see an encouraging poster greeting you in the window saying "Positive about Disabled People".
And you in your wheelchair are greeted by a 6" step, which should have written on it "Only Joking".
So we have no ramp and no access to the first floor interview rooms.
So they are positive they do not want you in there.
Take down the poster you are confusing people into believing you care.
Now in a total reversal of the above story we have had in the local and national press, instances of pedestrians coming a-cropper on the pavements at the hands of motorised wheelchair users! By law all motorised buggy/wheelchair users in the UK should have a license, but this is not enforced by the local councils in the country!
A lot of these people are no longer safe to drive cars on the road, but can drive at speeds up to 15 MPH on the pavement. With walking sticks and shopping bags sticking out at all angles like Boadicea’s* chariot, these make for an impressive weapon, and can easily clear a busy pavement.
*later to be named Boudica, but Snickers are as far as I’m concerned; still Marathon’s.
