# Walmart Mentality with handicaps!!!!! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [August 1, 2000, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-mentality-with-handicaps/27757 "2000-08-01T21:25:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-mentality-with-handicaps/27757/41 "2000-08-04T17:28:08Z")
No, Diane, it’s easy! See, fat people do not need wheelchairs because they are healthy. And thin people do not need wheelchairs because they are healthy. So the only people who need wheelchairs are . . . Uh, let me get back to you on this. ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-mentality-with-handicaps/27757/42 "2000-08-04T18:52:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Green Bean \* > \*\*Goodness Gracious! I had to use a wheelchair in a public place a couple of weeks ago. \ > > I hate to think that some ignorant jackass was mad at me for using the wheelchair. \*\* There probably were jackasses there passing judgement. When my husband had to go back on canadian crutches some assholes said that he should not be using them, that they were only for people with real disabilities. I get comments quite often when i take the elevator one or 2 flights or when i do climb stairs because i do so slowly and with a lot of pain. I have knee problems, doc said it was some long word that starts with my. The doctor said not to take the stairs. It hurts and apparently it hurts because it is damaging to them. It has since i was in junior high. This often nets me a lecture about my weight. ---
**Author:** ![TomH](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/90db22/32.png) [@TomH](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TomH)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-mentality-with-handicaps/27757/43 "2000-08-04T19:16:35Z")
> [@](#): > > If you check the dictionary the only definition is not the one concerning some Polish Bastard who betrayed the Jews mmmkay If I were using it as my username and had used it as the title of a magazine (so, so clever), I would make it my business to know a little bit about Quisling; at least enough to know that he was Norwegian, rather than Polish. Otherwise, I would be worried about being caught out in a sophomoric attempt to appear clever. ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-mentality-with-handicaps/27757/44 "2000-08-04T20:37:21Z")
Hooboy. First off, let me applaud those who have spoken before me, and heartily agree with the “Fuck You” that has been echoing though the thread. I’m not grossly obese, just overweight. I appear to be your average “mom”… most would assume me to be healthy, etc. But I have really bad knees. Really bad. They’re prone to giving out entirely with no warning, or just hurting like a bitch for days at a time so that just getting up to use the bathroom takes effort. The rest of the time they merely hurt. I use a wheelchair at the grocery store sometimes, when they are particularly bad. I’ve used wheelchairs at airports and once at Disneyland. I sure don’t appreciate the condescending looks I get from people like you who have no idea why I’m in that chair. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/walmart-mentality-with-handicaps/27757.md?page=2)