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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Harmon" data-source="post: 2355115" data-attributes="member: 24357">Actually it doesn't.  At the end of '99 I was pretty serioulsy injured on the job.  Nine monthes later I returned to work, still injured- work comp said I was good to go.  Nine months or so later my injured arm gave out completely.  I spent two years trying to recover.My pride was bent and eventually broken in half, by the knowledge that I could no longer do all the things I wanted to do and things I could not do.      I was lucky to find someone that could get me back into shape, get things moving for me again, but I gained a lot from the experience.  I feel for the disabled, esp those that will never recover, that do not have that option.A simple thank you for opening a door should not be a pride breaker, its a courtesy.  Hijinks mentioned that the wheel chair bound man some times runs people down in narrow hallways, should that be consider rude?  I think yes, does it rob him to not do that?  It sounds pretty sadistic to me that he would do that.  I am with Hijinks- no one deserves to be in a wheel chair, but he should not use that as an excuse to be rude.</blockquote>