Except on the Office, where it sent pop up my nose from quite literally LOL.
Don't know if it's the same scene you mean, but the scene from the UK version of The Office where the wheelchair user is abandoned on the stairs during the fire drill is a total classic.
I don't know why, so long after so much other stupidity is eradicated, the idea that sitting in a wheelchair for a day or blindfolding yourself "tells you what it's like" persists.
It's heavily criticised over here. I've just been writing about that in my dissertation (specifically, why physiotherapists shouldn't be doing this and then saying they're trained in 'disability'.) Do you have Disability Equality Training in the States? The version of such training which is focused on, well, equality. It's good. No blindfolds, earplugs or borrowed wheelchairs anywhere in that. I was planning to start working as a trainer in that field. I got distracted by academic stuff. But I still might.
Next time (which hopefully there isn't one), can you call the police from your car while the guy is still there?
That's the advice I was given - to call 999 if I feel threatened. It's a tough call, deciding when you should do that, 'cos I don't want to waste police time. But if I'm accosted by that man again, I absolutely will.
OK, I'm working. Seriously. I was never here.