The invisible man

You know that quote "You never know what it's like till you walk a mile in someone else's shoes". Well I came to experience first hand the treatment a disabled person gets when they walk into a running store to buy shoes. I went over to Fleet Feet on Saturday to order new running shoes. Mine were just about spent after the WDW half and I decided to hold off on buying a new pair for obvious reasons. Well now it's time. I limped into the store and went straight for the men's running shoes to check out the Asics GT-2140 one more time before I ordered them. When I walked up to the shoes one employee (who was helping someone else) asked me in a very strange tone "are you alright". I told him yes I am limping because I just had surgery on my knee over a week ago. He just has oh and goes back to work. Yes I was acknowledged, but it came off to me as why are you here? So I stood in front of the shoes for a while and waited for an employee to assist me. Many looked my way, but none came over. After about 15 mins. of standing I had to sit down because my good leg was hurting from supporting my other. So I sat there for another 5mins. when a customer walked into the store and the door had not even closed behind her and this employee shot out from behind the counter and started to assist her. So I finally had enough and walked up to this teenager behind the counter and said well I have been standing over there for 20mins. now I guess to get someone to help me I need to come up where you are standing. I told her that I needed to order the GT-2140. Reason being they do not carry my size shoe. And she looked at me favoring my knee and said gave me that why is this guy buying running shoes. I said in case your wondering why I am buy running shoes but am having trouble walking I just had arthroscopic surgery on my left knee to remove some inflamed tissue behind my knee. Now what gets me is her next statement "I had that over a year ago to repair my ACL. Hey that's great then why are you looking at me like I just walked into the wrong neighborhood? Now I know I could be blowing this way out of proportion and that's not what people meant, but it's what I believed to had experienced. I won't lie I felt a little singled out and I have never felt that way the countless other times I had entered that store. Now I do feel bad for how I treated the girl behind the counter because I could tell she was new because she needed assistance from someone on how to order my shoes. But I was just so fired up at that point I really did not care who it was in front of me. I don't know what do you guys think? I will say I have now walked the mile and understand. That's it. I hope everyone is happy and healthy.