Woman Blamed For Ruining The Evening After Asking Partner’s Nephews Not To Play With Her Wheelchair, Asks The Internet If She Overreacted

This wheelchair is the legs of this lady. Pretty expensive and fragile legs. She is allowed to tell people not to play with her legs

Kids need to be taught that not everything in the world exists for their entertainment and they can't get away with anything just because they are kids. Other people's property is not okay to play with if the owner doesn't give you their permission. It doesn't even matter, if the property in question is important and expensive, or just a stupid useless toy. If it's not yours - keep your hands off it.

This would have been an amazing opportunity for the kids to be taught by their grandma and uncle about disabilities and the facilities that disabled people use, why they are necessary, how they help them, and how they have to live their lives. Instead, they let the kids play with it.

Most people with wheelchairs have one chair. They’re very expensive and often fit specifically for that person. A broken chair means hours days in bed. People can’t go to work, go to the grocery store, and guess what? You need your chair to get to the damn bathroom!

I can only think that these stories aren't real cuz I can't comprehend people being such assholes.

The kids should have been disciplined for being so disrespectful towards the woman. Instead of laughing it off it would have been the perfect time for the family to educate the boys about disabilities and respecting others property and space. Totally NTA, 100%.

NTA, and on top of that it's clear the BF doesn't respect his partner. A wheelchair is a medical device, not a toy. The BF should be respecting it as an extension of his partner. It is effectively her legs and should be treated with just as much care as the person who needs it.

Sweetheart, you are not broken... your "boyfriend" is broken and you need to find another avenue!!

Boyfriend and his mama would change their tune IMMEDIATELY if you told the kids to go out and play with boyfriend’s or mama’s CAR. The car he needs to get to work , his parents’ house, and to go out partying. The car she needs to take those same kids to school, go to work to support those kids, go to the grocery store, doctor, soccer games, etc etc etc, with those very same kids. Just try to tell me they wouldn’t think it’s a big deal for the kids to play with their cars. Just. Try. To.

That thing costs $xxxx. Hand me that amount, and I'll consider letting your goblins breathe on it, since it will take x months to replace my legs.

my brother has a wheelchair and my kids were NEVER allowed to play in or on it. He took them for rides on his lap as you have done but that was his choice. Stupid parents and dumb a*s boyfriend.

If the little preciouses had gotten their itty bitty fingers caught in the spokes, they could have broken their itty bitty bones. Not a toy. Even if there was a toy, she said no and NO MEANS NO.

Why on Earth people can not accept if somebody says no to them for something???

NTA but she's so obviously NTA that I'm not sure why this has even been posted. It can only be for weird internet points.

Ah can't wait for this relationship to end. When I was a child my grandmother had one of those electric chair things for the stairs. We loved to "ride" on it and said things like "I'd love to have this in my house." They told us if you had one in your house it would mean your legs were probably disabled. That turned us off it pretty quickly.

I had a similar issue recently- I use a walking stick to get around- without it, I would have to shuffle VERY carefully and slowly and hope for the best! (My balance is terrible and I have had several falls, resulting in crushed spinal fractures, and a torn rotator cuff) and recently my niece kept skating around the table and knocked my walking stick over at least half a dozen times, (making it hard for me to reach it and potentially damaging it) after about the 6th time I finally got a bit frustrated and said "Niece"- please STOP!" My sister gave me a "look" and I had to swiftly pretend I was joking and that I was ACTUALLY concerned about my niece hurting herself instead (which I was, but she was well padded and would have been fine. I however would have been buggered without my stick!

I hope these dude is no longer her boyfriend. He told her she was being too sensitive?? What a d**k.

Last yr I was spending a week w/ my brother n his family. I took my glasses off to wash my face, niece ran up, grabbed them n ran away. I asked nicely to give them back like 12x. She didn't. brother came in n also asked her to stop n told her that they're not a toy n to give them back now. Enter SIL. She starts screaming at us about how "she's just curious! She's not going to break them" n a few minutes later she dropped them n stepped on n broke them. I CANNOT see w/out them. Let alone drive 850 miles back home w/out them. I can't wear contacts either n didn't have a back up pair. My bro was so apologetic n offered to pay for them while SIL "would not allow it" as "she is just a kid" n "it's my fault for chasing her n scaring her into dropping them." My husbands a truck driver, he had to leave the road n go home n ship me out new glasses just so I could get back home. So all in all we lost money, I spent 5 days not being able to see n had to wait weeks for a new pair. N F**k my SIL

"Just kids" who end up breaking things.

NTA, they should learn that if person is not okay with that, you don't laugh it off. I mean sometimes grandma has a wheelchair while still mobile, just so she can sit down whenever she feels tired or weaker, and if she doesn't mind to push children around in it or let them play with it, it's all good (my bf's grandma is like that, but family bought her chair, it's not on her bill if anything happens and she doesn't need it at all times which is important!).

Another idiot asking reddit for an obvious answer.

She could have suggested to the boyfriend to let the boys play with his car and watch his outraged reaction. I hope she left the boyfriend!