To all of you Halifax ‘Suits’ and others using the Purdy’s Wharf pedways to get to and from work…. I had no idea every single one of you had a disability! I mean, what other logical reason is there for the fact that every one of you seemingly healthy and able human beings needs to use the handicap button to open your doors for you. FFS is it that hard to push a door open every now and then? —Lone Able-Bodied Door Opener
This article appears in Aug 8-14, 2013.
Ehhhh. Unlike when able bodied people park in the handicapped parking spot, or occupy the handicapped bathroom stall, pressing the button to open the door doesn’t prevent people with disabilities from also using that door. Sometimes I’m carrying stuff and don’t really have the hands for it to open the door myself; I press the buttons to get in and out of the various doors in the ferry terminal with my bicycle (for example). I am too clumsy handling my bike to get through without using it.
Pbbbbfffftt…opening your own door is for suckers!!!!
Yeah! Plus – we’ve got the blackberrys in one hand, briefcase in the other, coffee in the other other, newspaper in another hand, and laptop in the last hand. Do you really expect us to open our own doors?!
Pshhhht! Ya fool!
please just shutup
Some people may look able-bodied but have physical limitations that making opening heavy doors awkward or uncomfortable.
Even if they do not:
Why do people have a need to judge others with or without having all the facts?
What is so very difficult about minding your own business and letting others open doors any way they please? In the grand scheme of your day why should how a complete stranger opens doors even matter?
I work in a three story building. Guess how many people use the stairs? There’s only 32 to the top………….
The button is handicapped? Wow … fuck me, am I the last to find this out?
Pedway. Ped meaning feet, way meaning route, ergo using your feet to go the route. As for pressing the hanicap button? Who really gives a rat ass?
I push those buttons all the fucking time. Sometimes I have my bike with me so its convenient. Other times I don’t have my bike, and its just as convenient. So shut the fuck up.
hey slag.
I DO have a disability.
Most of the time, it’s hidden nicely beneath my constant attempts to manage it. But doing things like opening heavy doors CAN potentially exacerbate it. Just because I walk upright without the constant use of a support cane? Who the fuck are you to decide how I manage my health? You’re CLEARLY no doctor.
Lots of these so-called suits suffer from tech-neck. A condition caused by sitting hunched over at a desk 8 hours a goddamn day. And similarly for them as for myself (a sufferer of both tech neck and childhood-onset spinal arthritis) anything you can do to rest that weary set of shoulders is a godsend.
Why is this your business anyway?? The door is open longer which means more people get through more quickly.
Moron. sorry op but you’re just dumb. You need to bitch about something so you choose this. But your argument is so unsound, it’s laughable. You have literally NO COMPLAINT outside your own bitterness. I think you just hate people with jobs better than yours.
And just for the record, I am not lazy, even as a disabled person. I have physio twice a week, hike regularly and am a student of kung fu and taiji. And when I feel fucking sore, I don’t yank on heavy fucking doors.
And you can just sit back on your self-righteous, jealous ass and deal with it.
as a “handicapped” person, you all have my permission to use those fucking buttons anytime you damn well please, tech-neck or not, arthritis or not. Goddamned CANCER-laced AIDS or not. Life is hard. Why not make it easier where you can?
And thanks btw. When you push it, it means the door is already open for me. Cheers to you.
Just made you look like a fucking idiot, op.
Sometimes I push the button for people who are too far away to wait and hold the door for, but if I push the button I can keep going on my way and the door will still be open for them!
In the year 2525, some machine is doing that for you
just saying
In 2525 I’ll be dead and won’t give a fuck about this bitch. Shit, I must already be dead because I don’t give a fuck about this bitch.
In the year 2525 if man is still alive…
What Keg said and pushing the button is just plain fun.
it’s called ‘tech-neck’ ???
oh cool! I thought it was called ‘dowager’s hump’ .
I feel better about it already