Re: Re: Placing the Sproutgarden INSIDE refrigerator on HOT days!!!

[Guest guest]

The question that I've been wanting to ask is: What was the bus driver doing

while this was going on. Aren't the drivers supposed to respond to fights and

confrontations?

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Re: Placing the Sproutgarden INSIDE refrigerator

on HOT days!!!

Peggy:

They all stood and did NOTHING while the guy had Alan down on the floor and was

pummeling him. Alan's glasses went flying. Alan defended himself with the cane.

That's when the guy jumped off the bus.

THEN the people helped Alan get up and someone found his glasses.

No one did anything to pull the guy off.

I know me. If I had been there (and it wouldn't matter if it was my husband or

a complete stranger), I would have immediately jumped on the guy, taken his

hands, put them behind his back, lassood him, and brought him in for slaughter.

But that's me!!! lol

You have to have a sense of humor when you look back and see these things.

After that Alan and I have had discussions on how to react to this if it ever

happens again. As a matter of fact, I'm giving a presentation at our next

Neuropathy Support Group meeting.

The topic??

How to be able to get off a bus when no one will let you. What to do if you are

attacked on a bus. And similar instances.

We have a lot of timid disabled people at the meetings. The leader, once he

found out how I am able to move 50 people at a time so I can get off of a bus,

well he asked me " Melody will you please give a presentation on how they can do

this "

You would all be surprised at how often disabled people won't open their mouth,

won't get up and will just sit on the bus until ALL THE PEOPLE GET OFF. They

will sometimes ride 5 or 6 stops past their intended get off stop.

They don't know what to do , what to say or the correct way to exit a bus that

is MASSIVELY CROWDED.

The reason I know how to do this. I do it EVERY TIME.

Everyone gets off the bus and let's me off. Then when I get off, they all get

back on.

Want to know what I do?? I'll tell you.

One time Alan and I were on a bus filled with 100 people. When you ring the

bell to get off at the next stop, and even if there are 10 people between you

and the door, people will suck in their gut and make you SQUEEZE in between

them. And what if you are carrying a push cart with groceries? Or as in Alan's

case, maybe his walker (that has been folded up), or his cane.

You have to know how to get the people OFF the bus so you may exit.

Alan looked at me and said " Melody we can't get off this bus there are 50

people between us and the door " .

I simply got up, yelled: " DISABLED MAN COMING THROUGH, DISABLED MAN COMING

THROUGH " .

Everybody got off the bus, we had all the room in the world and I thanked

everyone for being SO KIND, and everyone was mumbling (not happy) but no one did

a thing. After all, WHO WANTS TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ARGUING WITH A DISABLED

PERSON. These were ALL teens by the way. That's why it worked with them.

If you have a nut like my husband encountered, you have to yell to the bus

driver (I asked this of a bus driver and he told me what to do if this ever

happens again).

You yell out " I'm DISABLED and I can't get off the bus "

The the bus driver will get involved. If the guy makes trouble the bus driver

will call the police but it really never gets to that point.

Alan must have encountered a man who was really having a bad day and he

snapped.

I've found many different ways to exit a crowded bus. They all work.

It's a matter of knowing how to ask and get a positive response.

It's also best to not be on a massively crowded bus, but hey, it happens.

Melody