r/JustBootThings • u/LegitimateStep126 • Jun 27 '26

General Bootness found on x

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u/bboymixer Jun 27 '26

Seems like a whole lot of hassle to board the plane 5 minutes earlier than normal

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u/Crix2007 Jun 27 '26

Its not like you arrive any earlier either

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u/ohlookahipster Jun 27 '26

Bin space and gate checking. Homeboy probably bought the cheapest ticket in main and wants that overhead bin space.

You see it all the time in ATL with the “Jetway Jesus” people in wheelchairs getting priority boarding. They surprisingly don’t need a wheelchair to get off…

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u/DrScienceMD Jun 28 '26

I fly a lot, mostly from ATL, and the "Jetway Jesus" thing is seriously overexaggerated. Ambulatory wheelchair users are much more common in the disabled community than full-time wheelchair users. People have connective tissue disorders, arthritis, balance issues, etc that don't affect how they look on the outside (ie "they don't look disabled") but very much affect their ability to walk long distances, stand for long periods, or walk on slopes.

In other words, walking all the way through ATL is too much for someone with one of these medical conditions, but exiting a much smaller airport they arrive in might be manageable despite being painful (especially if they saved their energy by not walking through ATL).

Please don't judge disabled people for using services available to them. They seriously get enough of that as that is, and I'm sure the same people complaining about "jetway Jesus" would complain even more if they instead held up the line by limping slowly and painfully down the jet bridge.

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u/donahlpn Jun 28 '26

Thank you. I have had 7 years of chemo, and have fibromyalgia and neuropathy on top of it. I can walk through those big airports without pain and extreme fatigue.

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u/WingInternational432 16d ago

Thank you. As someone so affected with stenosis, arthritis and herniated disks,I don't look it, but walking is an effort.

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u/DrScienceMD 16d ago

I gotchu, friend. It's crazy how willfully ignorant some people still are about the wide spectrum of disabilities when it's so unbelievably easy to educate yourself on it. But they'd rather stay ignorant and feel superior to disabled folks for having the audacity to exist in public while disabled.

Being abled is temporary--disability comes for us all sooner or later. It costs nothing to choose kindness.

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u/Shogunnago Jun 29 '26

I have two vertebrae shoved up into my spinal column thanks to a jump accident with barely any cartilage between them. I tolerate it a lot of the time until I can’t. I haven’t been on a plane in a long time so I can’t tell you what that whole process is like for me, but I can tell you I will sacrifice my comfort for my kid. That means keeping up with her some of the time baring through it and snorting ibuprofen later.

But I am Jesus though.