Self-righteous anger was not my first response, Fortunato. The anger came when I realized that they were trying to give me the bum's rush.

I have flown many times when there were no problems. But it's how they respond when there is a problem that matters. The crushing of my wheelchair was just damned carelessness and incompetence. I had to suggest rather insistently that they rent a wheelchair for me to use for the remainder of my trip or I don't think they would have offered. It never occurred to the supervisor to wonder about how I was going to get around without one.

Don Firth