Please push in your chairs!

My husband is in a physical therapy appointment. I tag along because we have a couple of errands to run on the way home. I am in my manual chair today because it's quicker and easier. I don't go back with him for his appointment because I always feel a bit in the way. There is a small cafe in this building, it's a large clinic with many specialists and even an outpatient surgery center. Anyways I decide to be brave and wheel myself to the cafe.

Wheeling myself is something I couldn't really do in my old chair, my new cool purple chair is much easier to wheel myself in. Easier, but still hard with sore swollen hands and shoulders. I navigate into the cafe thankful there is a handicapped button for the door, even more thankful that it actually works. You wouldn't believe how many don't work, give it a try next time you see one if you find it doesn't work do a handicapped person a favor and report it. I do notice there are no buttons to get outside of the building from the cafe, so I would have to go back through the building to get to an accessible door. I always wonder why there is still such a lack of access for the handicapped. 

The door is not my obstacle today, lazy people are. I come into the cafe and it's small and has numerous tables and chairs. The hard part for me is no one has pushed in their chairs so for me to navigate my way through I have to push in all of the chairs to get to a table. It's really maddening how lazy people can be. It's so simple to push in your chair, you parents made you do it all the time I am sure, but somehow as an adult no one is capable. 

As I'm sitting here eating my muffin and writing my blog I see 3 people get up and leave and not one of them pushed in their chair. I sit here wondering do I say something? Maybe they would appreciate hearing what a big obstacle a chair is for some, but I feel that they will not appreciate my advice but rather be offended. So please next time you are out to eat or anywhere you end up sitting in a chair at a table, please please push in your chair. 

I hope everyone is having a great day. Thanks for stopping by.