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Chocolate Cake:
I'm so very frustrated.  I'm with a volunteer organization that helps transport people who don't drive (usually elderly) to doctor appointments, shopping, church services, etc. for free.  Our group is very small and we aren't always available to help with all requests.  In those cases, we refer the person to two other non-profit companies that have special mini-bus services that run 6 days a week, 12 hours per day. 

What is driving me so crazy, is the people who claim to need a ride but who want to impose significant conditions on what they will and won't do if they use our volunteer organization.  i just spoke to one elderly woman in an attempt to get matched up with a driver so she could go shopping, etc.   Her list of requirements was so extensive that there is no way that one of our volunteer drivers would ever be able to fill it.    When I then refered her to the two mini-bus services, that wasn't going to work for this, that, and the other reason either.  Then she mentions that the assisted living complex where she resides has a staff that runs residents around town but THAT wasn't going to work either for five other reasons.  Total inflexibility.

GADS!   As it stands, she has just argued her way out of getting any rides anywhere from a total of four different options!   What is it with these people?   

JoyinVirginia:

--- Quote from: Chocolate Cake on January 08, 2007, 12:54:21 PM ---GADS!   As it stands, she has just argued her way out of getting any rides anywhere from a total of four different options!   What is it with these people?   

--- End quote ---

She is like my mother. She wants ME to take her every place, and will come up with lots of reasons why NONE of the alternative means of transportation will work. she doesn't really WANT to take any other means of transportation except my car!
Joy in Virginia

Chocolate Cake:
She just moved here and her only family lives about an hour's drive away.  Maybe she'll change her mind about using these transport services if she has to sit and stew on it a while.  Or not.  Either way, I can't help her the way it stands now. 

Tabris:
I used to drive for CareGivers, and we used to face the same thing.

But my overall favorites were the people who would demand five rides a week. From five volunteers.  And when you'd get there to pick them up,
a) anothe rrelative's car would be in the driveway,
and
b) it turned out it wasn't a necessary appointment and they could have piggy-backed it onto another one.

95% of my clients were terrific, but that 1 in 20 who were entitled made me want to scream.

blue_bunny_paz:
I think people can't differentiate between a nonprofit service and taxis. If I paid for a taxi I would expect it to arrive in a very small window of time, but if it's a charity I would make allowances.

We had a scheme near us called Dial A Ride which, unfortunately, wasn't useful for everyone as you could not take someone with the passenger, so if people needed someone to push them or help carry you couldn't use it. But it was good for many people so it was a worthwhile service. You just have to bare in mind that not everything in life will be tailored to you.

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