In the grocery store we were walking and the woman a few feet in front of us in one of those huge electric wheelchairs, stops and begins to back up right at my dd (not on purpose of course). I scream and grab my dd out of the way. I stayed calm (really I did) and told her that she needed to be careful when she backed her chair up (I was not sarcastic honestly). She said "Well, I had the beeper on!". I heard nothing but I was yelling at her to stop and focused on moving my dd from the path of this huge chair. I just repearted that she really had to be careful when backing up her chair. I am still freaked out at how badly my dd could have been hurt if it had rolled on her.
Ok, here comes the rant but I am back in North america and I didn't see this as a UK trend when I was living there last year but over here, all these fat, fat north americas are driving these motorized carts and becomming a menace. I know, I know, some need them but honestly, it is problem of weight for many who are too big to walk now. It is sad. This lady I saw walking to her car later (the grocery store provides these carts free for people to drive around and get their groceries) and she was huge, but walking.
It's all so sad what we are doing to our health by our eating habits and these electric chairs for people who don't really need them are a menace.