I completely agree. Being "fat" doesn't mean you are disabled, some people it does, but the majority is just plain laziness. The worst I saw on my last trip was a bus pulled up at DTD to the Contemp. and a lady in her early 50's was in a scooter. The bus was about 3/4 full and the driver asked her- "do you want me to wake up these 3 kids since that is the bench I have to put up to park your scooter?" The lady replied: Yes, I want on this bus and am not going to wait for another". Mind you, she just wheeled up about a minute before the bus arrived. So the driver woke up the kids that were sleeping in their parents laps and those parents were quite irrated. Then of course, 5 or 6 others in the scooter lady's party had to board in front of everyone else. She parked the scooter, and then easily walked to an open seat on the bus.
I am surprised the bus driver would pressure a handicapped person to stay off the bus. They are (obviously) not supposed to do this. I've never complained about any employee, ever. But I'd have reported that.
If people choose to sit in handicapped seats that have signs up stating that they may have to give those seats up for handicapped people, they should not be surprised when they have to move for a handicapped person. If they didn't want to move, they should have chosen other seats.
The handicapped person should have said she wanted her seat. Not all busses have space for wheelchairs and who knows how long it would have been before one arrived. She's probably waited through several busses in the past and knows this. She never should have been pressured to wait for more busses, though.
Her family should have been able to stay with her. The idea that handicapped people shouldn't be able to remain with their families is a little cruel.
If the parents had planned better, by making sure their children got enough sleep, by leaving the park before the children were so exhausted they were falling asleep or by not sitting in seats not in the section where they must be given up for the handicapped...they could have avoided moving sleeping children.
I am disappointed in society in general when people are complaining about having to make any allowances for the handicapped. There was a time in this country when children were raised to help the less fortunate, not complain about doing it. There was a day where those parents would have said, "Oh, of course!" This story would have had people shaking their heads over the ridiculous selfishness of people who were irritated that they had to give up a seat for a handicapped person.
Now, we have this. Selfish, spoiled, adult brats whining about having to make space for a wheelchair.
What is happening to our society? I just don't know.