The incident occurred Tuesday in Greenville during a showing of “The Color Purple.” The Rev. William Barber II said he needs the chair because he suffers from ankylosing spondylitis, a disabling bone disease.

  • NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Come on ankle, losing spontaneous dill -itis?

    That sounds made up as fuck.

    I wouldn’t have believed him either, I just would have tried to surreptitiously Google it real quick first, you know, so I don’t end up making a huge ass of myself

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      1 year ago

      That sounds made up as fuck.

      I really don’t want to live in a world in which movie theater attendants have to medical training in order to treat people with dignity.

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      Why question it at all? If I saw a guy with two canes sitting on an unusual chair in the disabled section, I wouldn’t ask a thing.