An entitled Walmart Karen tries to force me out of a mobility scooter claiming that I'm faking

my disability, resulting in me not only reporting her to corporate, but also reporting her to the police.

Here's what happened.

Okay, to start things out, I'm an 18-year-old female, but sometimes people think I'm either 15 or 16 years old,

due to me having a baby face and severe acne.

I have POTS, along with permanent nerve damage in my legs. This leads to me using mobility scooters in stores like Walmart if I can find them. And at this point, I'm sure you can see exactly where this is going. Now, I go grocery shopping with my dad, and he helps me with things that I might not be able to get by myself, especially if I can't find a mobility cart. So we walk into Walmart and I see three mobility carts lined up against the wall. My dad then tells me that he's going to the bathroom, so I get in a cart and I wait by the shelves nearest to the entrance. An employee then asked me if I'm waiting for anyone, and I tell her that I'm waiting for my dad. Now, I'm not sure if she saw us walk in or not,

but it also didn't click for me that she may be questioning about why I'm on the cart. My dad then comes out of the bathroom and meets up with me and off we go. But before I get very far, the Walmart employee yells at me, ma'am, that cart is for handicapped people only. And when she said this, I was taken aback.

So I stutter and I say, I know, I am handicapped.

She then replies to me and says, for handicapped people only. And when she said this, I was taken aback. So I stutter and I say,

I know, I am handicapped. She then replies to me and says, you walked in here, didn't you? You can walk around the store. Well, getting more irritated, I tell her that the details of my disability are none of her business, but I can assure her that I am. She then walks over to me, turns off the card, and tries to yank me out of it.

My dad steps in and gets in between her and I, and he says to her, what do you think you're doing? My daughter said she's disabled. Are you really going to interrogate everyone who grabs this card about their health? She then gets red in the face and says she's too young to be disabled. She's just being lazy.

At this point, I thought my dad was going to start throwing hands with this woman.

Well, we obviously... the face and says she's too young to be disabled. She's just being lazy. At this point,

I thought my dad was going to start throwing hands with this woman. Well, we obviously attracted

a crowd because security walks over. My dad and I explained the situation, and to her credit,

she says exactly what happened. The security guard asked if I have proof of disability,

so I get up and I start walking with my legs buckling and my right leg being bowed in. Well, apparently that's good enough proof for him because he just walks off. She then says to me, well, why don't you do that in the first place? But I tell her because I don't need to prove anything to a random stranger with no authority. Now this Karen seems slightly embarrassed and mumbles something under her breath and then goes back to where she was standing. And while my dad and I ended up still going on with our shopping, once it was all said and done and we got home, I ended up calling the corporate number and reporting her. Now, I didn't have a name, but I had the Times and her description. And I'm not sure if anything will become of this or not. Also, I filed a police report and I contacted the store manager.

The officer I talked to said that he'd see what he can do about this, and the store manager said that he would get to the bottom of it and that there will be consequences.

And honestly, I'm hoping that there actually are. And while I'm not sure that the officer took my report seriously, there does seem to be some kind of action taken.

Wow, I cannot imagine being so bored with your life, especially working at Walmart, where you feel

the need to walk up to someone and be like, you need to prove that you're disabled.

Like what universe are we in right now? That is so unbelievably unethical and probably illegal.

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