I discriminated against the disabled (The NHS and the disabled)

Name: Cammij

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Product:	The NHS and the disabled
Date:	14/10/01 (53 review reads)
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Advantages: Disabled people don't commit violent crimes much

Disadvantages: they want favors

This is my confessional and apology and I can only put it here in the most applicable area of Dooyoo. I did something very bad last night and want to tell the world that I am sorry.

I never had any trouble with disabled people. I just usually felt sorry for them and wished them well. I sometimes resented their position that the whole world had to accomondate them for their bad luck and misfortune in such matters as wanting us to destroy the architectural beauty of some of our finest buildings to make accessibility ramps. But I guess on the other hand what good is a building in a free country that is only there for some people but not all?

I do not feel that I bear any prejudice towards disabled people but last night I majorly discriminated against one. I know it sounds petty, people in the racial chat rooms always want to talk about their one black friend or when a white guy works with a black guy he feels the need to declare how he has a black friend somewhere liek to prove they are not a bigot. So I will say this Stephen Hawking rules, especially as he left his wife for his nurse and my mom's cousin is a brilliant man who got MS and is in a wheelchair and I like him.

So what did I do? I was riding a train last night, actually I was running it and I had to go very slow, 10 mph through a rusty siding in a small burnt out town. It was about 1 in the morning. Suddenly I see a guy walk out onto the rail and put something on the rail, I am about 1200 feet away. Then I saw a white blur glide alongside him and I was incensed, I assumed it was a small child with him on the tracks. I was just furious. But then I noticed the white shirt was gliding like a ghost. I was confused. Then I saw it was a guy in a wheelchair.

As I got closer they got off the tracks and started throwing rocks and bottles and what not. Pelting the hell out of the engine. I was astonished, nobody in a wheelchair ever did that before.

I get bom
bed everyday. We take it for granted...going through the city I close the windows. It is that simple. Now other people get creative and hang things like dead skunks from ropes on overpasses at the height of our cabs and others put furniture out on the tracks but we never get blasted by people in wheelchairs. Honestly we really don't care, it makes our day more interesting. Don't throw stuff at our persons is all. I take offense when our cabs get bombed but I don't care if people get crazy on the goods wagons.

I am not a nark. I have only reported people twice. Once it was teh skinheads near Detroit who got my window with a beer bottle and almost hit me and the other time it was on Halloween and I called the dispatcher on some kids. See they ask if anyone is hurt, then they ask if the equipment is damaged. Then they ask if we can describe the perps, colour, size, age, clothes, etc. So the dispatcher asked what these kids who threw eggs at me looked like and I said, now this is on an open radio that all railroaders for miles will hear as well as all the railfans who keep scanners on at home, "I can do better than that I can tell you their names...Cartman, Madonna and a mediocre Pinnochio" The dispatcher got mad at me. They found no humor in it at all.

So I guess I would not have blown these guys in had the man not been in wheels. All they did is lay some coins on the track. It is so hyppocritical to nark them down for that. Just last week we were stopped in a siding and we were putting all our change on the track and running over it with the engines. I think the CSX corp gives their men 5 million dollars worth of locomotives so they can amuse themselves by running over their nickles. The funny thing is I went to the bank to cash my check that day and it was like $1759.92. So the teller asks me if I have 8 cents and I start laughing like a hyena with tourettes and I had to tell her why I had no coinage.

So anyway
s I narked on this guy in wheels just because I wanted to tell everyone in radio range that a guy in a wheelchair was out vandalizing the railroad stuff. I just wanted to hear myself tell the dispatcher that one of the guys was in a wheelchair since it was so absurd. I am sure the cops caught them. They have police all over the tracks now with this Taliban crap going down and the dispatcher was already getting people out there to inspect the track. I cost the railroad a lot of money over this. But I think it is funny. Coming back home today all we could talk about was the guy in the wheelchair throwing rocks at us. I think they should make a poster of him promoting tolerance and showing he can do everything an able bodied bloke can do. I hope his friends don't realize he is why we reported them and quit being his friend. How do the cops take in a guy in wheels? I just wonder, but I hope he doesn't lose his friends.

I am sorry for treating people different because of their bodies. I am sorry. Please leave comments telling me what I must do to make up for this. I think I will donate my Dooyooo miles to invalids or something. I feel like a terd for treating someone different based solely on their disability. please don't hate me

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