What Is The World Coming To?

[RainbowRainbow]

A person was pushing a person in a wheelchair in the road and started smoking. There’s pavement on both sides.

[naomi24]

Sometimes it's difficult to push wheelchairs on pavements. Some pavements are awfully uneven. Not sure what smoking has to do with it.

[anneasquith]

Who started smoking ?

[RainbowRainbow]

The person who pushed started smoking.

[naomi24]

So what?

[RainbowRainbow]

Surely it’s top priority to get off the road than smoking.

[Ken4155]

Was the person who was pushing the person smoking, or was it the person who was being pushed by a person? Or, and it's a remote possibility, was the person pushing the person in the wheelchair so fast that the wheels were smoking?

[Peter Pedant]

Its flatter
the road
so the ride is less juddery

I am partially sighted and frequently walk up the road because I stumble less. I am usually with a yellow labby so they think it is the dogs fault and not mine

does any one shout - "get out of the road you stupid old man?" because they know who I am

In Dartmouth ( Devon ) someone did run into me and I screamed - "can 't you see I cant see?"
and he said - yes

[naomi24]

Perhaps they weren't going to get off the road. As I said sometimes it's easier to push a wheelchair in the road.

[Peter Pedant]

Naomi is correct - roads have to be flatter than pavements
( the man at the ministry has issued a regulation somewhere)

[Peter Pedant]

and no one has asked
well what was he smoking?

[Ken4155]

PP, if you can't see, how do you know your labby is yellow? Come to think of it, how do you know it's a labby? :-)

[tiggerblue10]

Not sure that this is a matter of what's the world coming to but I'm sure the pusher is aware of road safety. Maybe the pavement is uneven. TBF the smoking bit is irrelevant.

[Khandro]

It's a wheeled-vehicle just like a handcart (though you don't see so many of those anymore) so of course it is entitled to use the road.

[vulcan42]

I understand there is a law that states a road must be fit for purpose but it doesn't apply to pavements, unfortunately this often means they get neglected. In my local village there is an area of pavement which is certainly uneven, it was once referred to to as the pedestrian version of Blackpools big dipper. There have been a few accidents on this site but ironically it's conveniently outside the clinic.

[naomi24]

Anyone who has pushed a wheelchair, especially one with a heavy occupant, will know why that person used the road.

[Peter Pedant]

hi vulky !
I thought you were gonna say in good AB fashion
"why doesnt he fly?"
or
why dont they fly ? yeah and someone quip back quick as a flash - er because there is a no smoking rule on aircraft. Foo!

at risk of being called a small minded busybody obsessed with minor things, I point out that visually impaired includes "cant see very well"

[Peter Pedant]

well that is probably me n Naomi,
joined at last by adversity ( and damn hard work)

[Ken4155]

PP, i was going off the "can't you see i can't see?", so the "partially sighted" didn't register. My apologies.

[Bazile]

Perhaps the pusher was a pusher .

And he/ she had just lit up another joint and so was not aware he/she was pushing in the road

[vulcan42]

Ken, no need to apologise to Peter, he treats all insults as compliments. :o)