Why pay top buck, just to be humiliated?
In no way meaning to argue, may I ask how exactly you have been humiliated? If you are in the right all along no one in that arena who is so clearly wrong (or such a clueless twit) should inspire one iota of shame, only pity for their ignorance.
If my mother were alive she'd remind me that anyone who said life was fair lied. Those in wheelchairs are shoved into the worst seats in the house to maximize the number of seats available for sale. It's not personal, it's business. Which doesn't mean it doesn't suck.
I realize I'm speaking as someone whp's not lived your life and suffered those infuriating slights, though I do know a hint of the difficulties one encounters: I graduated from college just before the ADA.was signed. It was in the mountains and old enough to have all steps and few accommodations. My roommate was dating someone who was required to use a wheelchair, and we had to petition the dormatory gods to be allowed to select our room before anyone else on campus because only 3 or 4 were even remotely wheelchair accessible. In fact, I truly learned the meaning of going around one's elbow tro get to the thumb trying to figure a way to get this man out of the parking lot (steep inclines, it took both of us to help push him to ground level). Then we crossed our own path about 3 times to cross to the point farthest from the parking lot to the only building on campus that he could access when he visited. AND, he couldn't sneak out through the window in the early morning hours like the rest of the boyfriends who'd been smuggled in overnight. That was the worst part as far as my roommate was concerned!!!
Write a guest editorial for the local paper. Caller the consumer rights reporters at the local TV stations. I'll write the press releases for you. You probably won't change anything, but you may shake a few people's heads free of wherever they had been previously stuck! (See how politely I said that? That's what you get for paying tuition almost double that of state-supported colleges for four years while wearing Laura Ashley and pearls to class, and hairbows to aerobics ;-) Just a little self-deprecatory humor, just for you!
(If I've unintentionally said anything that could possibly be misconstrued, remember, it's because gene made me experiment to find the perfect martini.)
Kelly
