Quote Originally Posted by sabies
Don't get me wrong, I realize not all handicaps are visible or obvious to someone, but I just sensed that these people were not handicapped. I think it is great that Disney is very accommodating, but I think if you just have trouble walking around all day you should not cut to the front of every line or get special treatment like that. These people struggled for at least half an hour (then a second bus came and I left) trying to get on the bus when I knew they could just get up off the chair and walk on the bus. I don't know why maneuvering the chair lift was taking so long, that can't be the norm.

On the other hand, I do believe most people will not abuse handicap spaces, etc and I would rather let some jerks think they are getting away with something then inconvenience a truly handicapped person. If someone wants to be lazy all the time they will end up gaining weight, which comes with it's own health issues, and soon they will be legally handicapped.
I'm sure you are probably right and they really had no REAL need for the scooters. but would it have been different if you were allowed to get on the bus first and then sit there and wait for them to load their chairs? Either way the chair would have to come on the bus sometime. and I imagine that if Disney were to request that someone leave their chair behind because they did not appear to be handicapped they would end up with a hefty law suit..... and well.... you can't count on people to be courteous these days lol after all even people without handicapped stickers still park in the handicapped spaces.... which is beyond me.

I remember when I worked at a tim hortons years ago we had this guy that would NOT get out of his chair to even reach for his coffee.... most often we had to walk around the counter to give it to him because he would make NO effort at all..... yet I saw him get out of his chair and push it across the street after it got stuck in the snow