To not want to be shoved to the side & overtaken at the checkout because I use a walking stick?

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It's happened again! I need a walking stick to be mobile, I am slow to be behind, but the number of times I've been just a yard from the till & some git person realises that they can push past me to get there first is astonishing & downright rude. The pratt bloke today turned round & grinned smugly at me after knocking me sideways. Even when it's not that physical, I'll almost be at the till & someone will run in front of me. Arrgh!

I don't see that being moderately disabled gives folk the right to unashamedly push in front of you, (or even call you a "spakker" when they're not looking where they're going & walk into you, but that's a whole other story).

Haven't we all got over that survival of the fittest stuff? Before my injury, I would have left him for dead on any running track or skied his rear off any hill, Grrrrrrrrrr!

Am I being over-touchy & unreasonable, or am I & others like me due, not OTT consideration, but just allowed our place????

                                          (Limps off for <img loading="lazy" class="inline-flex mumsnet-emoji" alt="Wine" src="https://www.mumsnet.com/build/assets/wine-wt7_cM9H.png"> and <img loading="lazy" class="inline-flex mumsnet-emoji" alt="Cake" src="https://www.mumsnet.com/build/assets/cake-BMONSn2k.png">, crouchily)!

It's really bloody rude.

Someone once stepped over the buggy to get to the till quicker than me. I'm afraid I may have given them a tongue lashing. The till next to me magically opened & I got served faster!

People are so rude.

YAsoNBU. What a twunt that man sounds.

Hit them with your stick.

It happens to me as well when I have mine. If someone was smug about it? I probably would hit them or be mouthy, but I'm a bitch.

If they just do it, without a smug look, I usually say "Excuse you!!" very loudly.

See above: Tee is a bitch. And doesn't take that shit.

Ive been knocked to the ground without an apology or anything so YANBU.
(Im on a walking stick too)

However, mr mobility scooter was ramming down everything in his path today at Tesco and being downright obnoxious to everyone and they had to call security.

YANBU-I never imagined people in general to be so bloody rude and ignorant until I started taking my 80 year old very frail nan shopping. She walks with a frame, so is understandably slow, and is also a tiny little thing-under 5ft.
The amount of people who physically shove past her, bustle her out of the way, tut, sigh or knock into her frame is shocking. I understand, as does she, that waiting behind somebody slow can be annoying, however she has as much right as anyone else to shop, and at her own pace. She doesn't mind moving for anyone if they ask, and will often apologise for being slow (bless her) but who purposely knocks into a visibly frail old lady?!

Doesn't the till person say anything? Its so rude! You must be sorely tempted to poke the pusher inner with it.

I was actually at the flight check in for virgin and handing the tickets over when a super busy mr fabulous look at me travelling for work and I've got a mobile look at me being important on it total arsehole slapped his tickets down and said " I'm in a hurry, got a meeting" and she took his saying it would only take a second

I would have argued but the dc were there and I decided to be gracious. when he finished and strode off without so much as thank you I regretted not saying anything. I consoled myself that at least I wasn't married to him:)

I think the pre-stick me would have done, but I feel much more vulnerable now. It's strange, but when I was on crutches, people in shops etc would be more likely to hold the door open, give way or just give me more room. Now that I'm on a stick, it's permanent & I just feel as if I'm a burden, in the way & fair game to be knocked over. I don't tend to bother going into busy places anymore, it just isn't worth the angst!
It just takes some getting used to!

TBH witank, I find the way we treat older people in general is pretty poor.

Like you I need a walking stick to be mobile, my DS aged 33 years thinks nothing of running past me to get a seat. He says I don't need a stick so I say I will have to lean on your arm, that soon shuts him up. The best one was when we was both in my narrow kitchen, I wobbled but didn't have my stick so I fell onto my DS and pinned him into the sink unit. I find that because of the stick people tend to let me go ahead or not barge into me so that I fall over. Do you say anything ? I wouldn't be able to keep my mouth shut. Luckily I don't go shopping as I have 3 adults who are far quicker at it than me.

I've walked ahead of people when it hasn't been obvious that they're heading for the till, but I wouldn't sprint to deliberately get past someone who was quite obviously headed for a till, whether or not they had a stick.

No pushing in! It's rude and jolly well not the done thing.

Next time please do say something.

Honestly wirecat, what amount of, "stuff buying," is worth stepping over a buggy & risking falling on a baby? I just don't get it!

YNBU! My DM is terrified of someone knocking her over.

YNBU! My DM is terrified of someone knocking her over.

Sorry don't know what's up with my phone. She's just come out of hospital and is currently in a wheelchair. She still had someone TRY to push in front of us in Morrison's yesterday .

My dsis (who at the moment has to use a wheelchair out and about) had a fit young man literally run in front of her to dump his stuff to 'claim' a table at Costas. What was weirder was there was about seven or eight tables free, she was just heading to that one so she wouldn't be in anyone's way.

I was getting the coffees so didn't see but if she told me before I would have gone and dumped his stuff elsewhere and plonked myself down. She decided to be all zen and decided his life must be shitter than hers if he felt he needed to do that.

YANBU. How horrible for you. I'm so sorry. And if I see anyone behaving like that in a supermarket, I'll comment very loudly and ram their rude arse with my trolley.

My Dad hates this too, he uses crutches. He has 2 hip replacements and arthritis over his entire body so just being jostled hurts like hell everywhere and for a good few hours after the fact too.

He has now perfected the art of scraping his crutches down the offending persons shin or back of leg and making it look like and accident.

Not the best solution, but when your brain is trying to crawl out of your skull to escape the pain some ignoramus has inflicted just to save themselves 0.5 of a second its a bit difficult to think clearly enough to form a coherent response.

YANBU. I spent several months in a wheelchair once with severe SPD. Even though I was taking things off of a shelf in a supermarket, someone actually wheeled me out of the way once.

I'm afraid I also get this when I use my stick, or mobility scooter. People in general are ignorant and rude and would indeed knock someone over in the street of it would get them somewhere a second quicker.

When I still thought I could be a 'normal' member of society, I went out on crutches to an exhibition at Victoria and Albert museum. Someone shoved me out of the way then fell over my crutch as she did so... She actually broke a bone in my foot but all she could do was fucking swear at me over and over. It was humiliating and awful.

I then left and tried to get on the tube home. Someone pushed me down the stairs at earls court. No one stopped to help as there was a train on the platform. Some slightly drunk football supporters helped me a few minutes later.

Took me months to recover from that one attempt to get out of the house, and made it very clear that I'm not a normal human anymore and people can indeed do whatever they want once you are vulnerable.

Bakeolite, DoubleLife that is truly awful. What is wrong with some people?