This won't surprise those friends of mine who use wheelchairs, or whose partners or relatives do, but man it pissed me off.
We get to the airport yesterday, and I'm sore already. So my partner grabs a wheelchair when we arrive, and we go to the Southwest line to check in. I ask the woman what I need to do to check in, and she looks at me, then looks at my partner, and says to her, "Does she need to check in?"
I said "Excuse me, yes, I need to check in, where do I go?"
First time I've encountered the "crips are incompetent idiots" meme IRL. Not fun. I'm thinking of making an amusing t-shirt in response (silhouette of a person pushing another in a chair, with an arrow to the chair-user's head, saying "Decision-making apparatus found here").
Grr. Caitie smash. Rawr.
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