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Originally Posted by Eastern Girl
Tons of times... The worst was when I held the door open for a guy in a wheel chair and after he went through the door, he proceeded to rant and rave about how I was probably one of those people that assumes that people in wheelchairs can't do anything for themselves and always need help with everything. He said I probably thought I was better than him and thought I was being discriminating. I was so embarrassed, I was trying to explain that I would have held the door open for whoever was behind me to be polite, but he wasn't having it. It was not a fun moment in my life.
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That's always a tough one for me. Not only handicap, but how far (in order to not totally derail the thread) should one go in order to help another person?
For some reason doors I always have problems with. Not that it affects me in any way, but your post made me think about it a bit. Typically if I don't know someone (i.e. on campus) I will walk through the door myself, and hold it open behind me for the person behind me (I think everyone does this). Thinking about handicap people, I always feel like I should help them more so than others, but I'm in a sense always nervous about getting into a situation like you did EG.