Etiquette question w/ wheelchairs.

[BurnItDwn]

sit on his lap and shake his hand.

I would squat and offer them a hand to sniff palm first.

I don't know why I bothered with my own answer. I should have waited for your guys answers first.


Squat, stick the palm of your hand in their face so they can sniff it, and then sit on their lap and shake their hand.

This seems the most logical.

 

[W.C. Nimoy]

I have no good advice, as someone who once committed a horrific faux pas with a coworker in a wheelchair. Instead of handing him a letter-folded piece of paper, I leaned over & tucked it into his shirt pocket for him. His arms worked perfectly fine, I have no idea wtf I was doing.

Another close call, I was approaching a guy doing a super exaggerated funky pimp or "gangsta" walk, obviously joking around walking toward us. I can't remember what stopped me, someone with me predicting my idiocy & seeing the beginnings of me mirroring it back to him, or if I stopped myself, but luckily I didn't get into full on doing it back at him, because that's how that guy actually walked for some reason. Some kind of disability.

 

[IronWing]

Another close call, I was approaching a guy doing a super exaggerated funky pimp or "gangsta" walk, obviously joking around walking toward us. I can't remember what stopped me, someone with me predicting my idiocy & seeing the beginnings of me mirroring it back to him, or if I stopped myself, but luckily I didn't get into full on doing it back at him, because that's how that guy actually walked for some reason. Some kind of disability.

Funk is not a disability.

 

[W.C. Nimoy]

Funk is not a disability.

Funkability, I know, & it's contagious.

I don't think it'd have gone over well had I started doing it though.

 

[lupi]

Lol

 

[bradly1101]

I'm in a manual wheelchair and when I'm greeted I prefer to see the graceful beauty of an able body doing cartwheels or something.

But seriously any greeting is fine. But maybe don't go by me. I would totally get a kick out of someone saying, "Hey gimp, howzit goin'?"

Just don't greet him or her by saying, "Why are you in that chair?" Believe it or not I got that twice at the DMV yesterday.

 

[phucheneh]

Posting in another ATOT 'oh no I'm accidentally in public what do I do?!' thread.

 

[Red Squirrel]

At some random point during the conversation ask if he's completed his ladder and confined spaces training.

 

[Brigandier]

Enthusiastically high five him and ask him if he's went any over sweet ramps lately.

 

[BUTCH1]

At some random point during the conversation ask if he's completed his ladder and confined spaces training.

Don't forget he's at you crotch level already, has strong arms from wheeling around and might punch you in the nut-sack then laugh as you tumble to the ground in the fetal position..

 

[Mixolydian]

WTF is going on here...

 

[Scotteq]

GOOD

Bad

VERY BAD

 

[BrokenVisage]

Handle it like Jim West..

http://www.anyclip.com/movies/wild-wild-west/west-and-loveless/#!quotes/

 

[biostud]

Watch the intouchables, then you'll know.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

remove the chair from in front of your desk, role him in place, start rubbing his neck and say "sure is a lot of extra room under that desk"

He'll get the idea.