Reply #56: WTF is wrong with people who don't want to help those in wheelchairs?

[Straight Shooter]

When ADA first came along, it was like a whack in the head to me. I remember thinking, "Gawd, how could I have been so stupid not to notice the lack of accessibility?" Business owners screamed that it would cost them money, but I didn't notice anyone going out of business, did you?

Those nightclub owners are afraid of people coming in with wheelchairs. They think you'll take up valuable space and that you might even want to get on the dance floor. In their own way, they're as prejudiced as Fred Phelps.

I'm the kind of person that I can't move fast enough to help someone by opening a door or whatever I can do to make their lives easier, even if only for a moment. That's just the way it should be, because first of all it's the right thing to do, and secondly, no one is guaranteed a healthy life for all their life. I hope that if I should ever become disabled, that someone will be there to help me when it's needed. Not that service to others is a quid pro quo, but what good is life if we never help one another?

Kansas City, Missouri, of all places. That just boggles my mind, a city of the 21st century stuck with medieval thinking.