#accessible seating

I kindof need the accessible seats on busses and kindof don't need them all that badly. Sometimes I just sit in them. Sometimes I sit in them as long as there's still another one free, but move if they're all taken. Sometimes I move if I see someone coming onto the bus who looks as if they likely need it more than me. Sometimes I sit in a seat near the accessible seats, because it's almost as good but there are no rules about leaving them for others.

realsocialskills said:

My situation is similar. (Although I've been realizing that I need the seats more than I thought I did, and that it's ok for me to sit in them if that's what makes riding the bus possible for me.)

I don't have much else to say about that, but I think more needs to be said.

With the accessible seats thing, is it okay to sit in one if you're with someone who needs one? For example, if you're going to the cinema with a family member who is in a wheelchair, but you don't personally need one, is it okay to sit in the accessible seat row with them?

realsocialskills said:

Yes, that's usually ok. (And important!). Being disabled shouldn't mean that someone can't ever sit with their friends.

I am an awesome friend. Though I wasn't able to get a ticket to Jack's Mannequin's final show and Ticketmaster told me Handicap Seating was sold out (which is complete BS!) I did score one for my best friend Chelsea after trying for 3 days...

Dear Ticketmaster,

You suck! I call BULLSHIT on your Request Accessible Seating button. I've tried to get tickets to 3 different shows the past few days and I always get an email back saying handicapped seating is sold out. That is a complete lie!! You always tell me this but it's just able bodied people that are buying up the handicapped spaces from people like me who really need it. I refuse to believe that all the handicapped seating at the El Rey is sold out. I requested accessible seating before tickets even went on sale to the general public for this event and you still sent me an email back saying there was no available handicapped seating!!!! I really wish I could talk to Andrew right now (he'd recognize me once he sees me) and tell him how Ticketmaster is shit. I know a lot of people are probably upset because this is a highly sought after show so I'm sure things were crazy, but what I'm trying to point out is this isn't the first time your company has done this to me! This past week I have also tried for several different dates for the Book of Mormons and New Found Glory and I got that same email! A few years ago I tried getting tickets for my niece and I to Taylor Swift and the Jonas Brothers, and still the same thing! In fact, when I went to buy the Jo Bro tickets in person, the teller specifically told me she could not sell me accessible seating because she didn't know how to do that!!! And anyways, why even try? It's probably sold out...." I'm sorry but again I refuse to believe that a stadium show that holds thousands of people is completely sold out of accessible seating for people with disabilities! I believe accessible seating is sold out, but again because you allow able bodied people to purchase handicapped seating!!!! I don't know what I'm asking for here. I doubt anything is going to change. I guess I just wished there was a better system for people with disabilities who need accomodations to purchase tickets.

M

And that I am one of those people who needs to request accessible seating.

You'd think I would've learned by now, at least from when I was able to see Morrissey at what was an otherwise "sold out" show, that when most major venues say a show is sold out, they are only talking about the "regular" seating.