Bing sings but Walt disnae
Quite a few years ago we were taking our two young kids to the yewessay for a medical conference. Our son has a rare life threatening and life limiting condition. There are only two kids in Scotland with this syndrome.
We asked Walt's fun park six months before we travelled if they would waive son's entry fee for a five day pass - which we would donate to said syndrome charity. This is because his disabilities are so profound, blind, epileptic, autistic, kidney failure, doubly incontinent, non verbal etc etc, he could not see or enjoy any of the rides. All we would be doing is wheeling him round the parks while our daughter enjoyed the rides etc. We bought passes for ourselves and daughter.
Why spend £70 or whatever it was on a child who patently could not get any use out of the parks?

They replied a week before we went saying he could only get in for free if we could produce a letter from his consultants expressing that it was his dying wish to see M Mouse. His favourite toy at the time was a margarine lid, I kid you not.

After a protracted and public argument with the ticket folk at the park they agreed, no deigned, to give us a complimentary one day family pass as we hadn't even entertained the idea of bothering his doctors with such an inane request. The deep irony is that the family pass cost more than it would have to just let him in for the five days.

I still hate those fuckers.
(Serendipity Long time, No see., Mon 16 May 2005, 21:09, Reply)