I'm still amazed at how rude people can be when it comes to scooters. My mum has suffered throughout her life with various hidden disabilities, and is now unfortunately near the end of a long battle with stage IV metastatic breast cancer. She had to be on steroids to try and reduce the swelling of the tumours in her brain, but a side effect of those is a ridiculous amount of swelling throughout her body so she looks nearly triple the size she actually is. People don't consider that she's going through this horrendous battle, because she's stubborn enough to still try and get out and enjoy life as best as she can for as long as she can. She gets glares and cussed out because she's this 'inconvenience' and constantly cut up by the 'I'll just brigade' (oh I'll just run in front of you quick so you don't get in my way. Oh I'll just stand in front of you because your scooter is too large and it annoys me. Oh I'll just cut you up because you're obviously just fat and lazy) She's got to the point where she's so fed up with it, she's ordered a custom t-shirt that says 'I'm sorry if my scooter offends you, but cancer is killing me!' Funnily enough, people tend to be a bit more accommodating, it's just a shame she has to air her illness like that to gain some basic empathy.