To the Editor,

You are so right about people not caring & it happens all the time when we`re out, people will not move aside to let us pass & even look at me & move to take a stand to show me they will not move so it would be very difficult in a wheel chair & people do not give eye contact to people in a chair or talk to them & treat them like they are deaf & dumb, it has gone on forever & a day that wheel chairs are not given proper access to toilets & ramps etc.

My husband always tries to lend a hand when he can & I try to have eye contact with folk in a chair.

I don`t know how things will ever change or if something happens to people in life that makes them wake up & not be so selfish or if they just stay the same.

I will say that when we get on a crowded train someone always jumps up & gives me their seat which I`m always very thankful for & it makes me think that I must look like an old lady now :-)

So it`s good that you are giving them a nudge with your write up, Ita Buttrose was always spruiking about the lack of manners & consideration.

How different life would be if all people were kind & warm hearted & it wouldn`t cost them a cent.

All the best for 2009.

Kind Regards,

Esther, Joondalup, Western Australia.