Things you notice

Saturday 21st November 2009

There were several things I noticed whilst being in a wheelchair:

Pedestrians/shoppers don’t see you so they walk into the wheelchair or you have to get out of their way pretty quick.

Because of cars who parked part on the road and part on the pavement, it was either extremely tight manoeuvring past or we had to take to the road because we couldn’t fit through the small gap. I was thinking of getting a device fitted to the wheels, which when I pressed a button, metal spikes would come out and scratch the side of the cars as I went past them…

Foot paths were in a terrible condition. The flagstones were so uneven so the ride was extremely bumpy.

Not all shops in our local high street were wheelchair accessible. There was one shop which had a huge step to get inside. Wheelchair uses were advised to press a bell to gain the assistance attention – the bell was over six feet off the ground !!!!