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"I felt really uncomfortable earlier"

I was walking along and there was this crippity crip in an electric wheelchair being guided along across the grass.

At this point I jumped over the small wall and ran across the grass, and we made direct eye contact as we passed.
Their face seemed to be full of envy at my;

walking
jumping
travelling across grass without getting stuck

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Plus the fact that I'm getting my car converted so I can drive it using a joystick ...

OK, I'm assuming that's sarcasm first of all.

Why? What did I say?

I was talking to a disabled bloke in work the other day. He was going about 0.01mph hour and looked very weak.

So I was all like!!!! " Dinnae want tae be rude pal but I can give ye a hand if ye waant "

And he was all!!! " Aye, cheers pal "

So I went and got everything he wanted and took him back to his ward.

I was all " nae danger big man
He was all " cheers man, it took 20 minutes tae get doon there "

Yeah, I turn into a true Glaswegian when I meet another one.
Anyway... I can get over the "omg hes disabled" easy.

I thought you were gonna say that in true Glaswegian style, after you gave him the stuff he went "cheers pal" and got up and walked away.

But alas, no.

Anyway, I have no trouble with disabled people either, my best mates older brother is disabled.
All of his life, in fact.

It makes me sad to think about it, because he can't do much.

Without any walking or actual exercise he hasn't grown, he's absolutely tiny - so small in fact that he can't use the wheelchair on his own (though I think he's got an electric one now).

His minds fine though, which is good, so you can have a conversation with him no problem, but I can't for long, because I end up feeling so sorry for him becaue he'll never expereince running around playing hidey, tig, climbing up trees, running around in rivers or even go swimming.

It's people like him that make me hope there's a heaven for him to go to when he dies.

Timmargh wrote:
> Oh, I get it. Someone would probably be thinking "Mustn't make
> crip joke." and he, you know, swapped it round.
>
> 4/10 - see me.

I thought the point was he was trying not to make a chip joke, and then you made it anyway.

munn wrote:
> OK, I'm assuming that's sarcasm first of all.
> Why? What did I say?

No need to get paranoid! It went like this:

munn wrote:
> ... You know that in 15 years time, instead of having a wheel chair, you'll have a hover chair,
> yet you'll still get all teh good parking spaces.

Timmargh wrote:
> Plus the fact that I'm getting my car converted so I can drive it using a joystick ...

I used to work at a research plant, half of it was labs, half was ongoing construction. One day I was walking past someone, he turned, and as his face came into view he only had one eye! That was proper scary - I imagine he did it before lunch with a nailgun.

There was a great advert on Tarrant on TV last night about disabled people.

"This man is disabled. But above all, he's an åsshole."

Something like that.

Which is good ... because I got some hassle once for calling this girl in my class a stuck-up b!tch, which she was and then some. She was also in a wheelchair, and apparently I shouldn't say such things because of it.

I see a man sometimes with a big hole in his neck, which he breathes through, and he has no throat. Freaks me out, but he seems nice.

Timmargh wrote:
> munn wrote:
> OK, I'm assuming that's sarcasm first of all.
> Why? What did I say?
>
> No need to get paranoid! It went like this:
>
> munn wrote:
> ... You know that in 15 years time, instead of having a wheel chair,
> you'll have a hover chair,
> yet you'll still get all teh good parking spaces.
>
> Timmargh wrote:
> Plus the fact that I'm getting my car converted so I can drive it
> using a joystick ...

I still don't get it.