I always chuckle when I see someone walk unassisted into Walmart than get on one of the shopping scooters....
Same as airline terminals. I've had 'em request wheel chairs, and when it's taking awhile off they go up the jetway. It's a miracle I tell ya!
One of the guys I used to cook with at BBQ contests had a stroke. He gets around on one of those little scooters when he needs to. He brought it out one year - we gave that thing a workout one night. I hope it still works!A few years back I was in Walmart, and heard someone behind me.... "Look out, drunk indian driving..!!"
I turned and looked and an elder native man was on the scooter just having a great time shopping. He kept up his warning, and when he got near me he looked at me and said, "Nothing worse than a drunk indian on a scooter in Walmart". I did not smell alcohol on him, he was just having fun, and I just laughed.
Many years ago the KC School District was in the middle of yet another one of their hiring/firing cycles of their School Superintendent. The latest guy was about to get fired, didn't really care anymore, and said he had back problems that required the used of crutches and therefore his disability protected him somehow or would get him a big bonus on the way out. He was also building a house in Florida. He took a few days off work to go down the FL, and one of the local TV reporters flew down with a camera. There was lots of video of the guy working on his house, carrying lumber and other building supplies, without his crutches. Apparently the Florida weather works wonders. The footage made it all over the local KC news, and when the guy landed back in KC and got off the plane, shuffling around on his crutches, he was swarmed by reporters asking him about the whole fake injury. He got fired.
My wife took her cousin on a cruise. She (the cousin) CAN walk, but she's terminally ill with cancer that has spread pretty much everywhere, including her spine. Walking is painful and takes a lot out of her. So... wheelchair whenever possible, and when that was impractical she walked.
Many years ago the KC School District was in the middle of yet another one of their hiring/firing cycles of their School Superintendent. The latest guy was about to get fired, didn't really care anymore, and said he had back problems that required the used of crutches and therefore his disability protected him somehow or would get him a big bonus on the way out. He was also building a house in Florida. He took a few days off work to go down the FL, and one of the local TV reporters flew down with a camera. There was lots of video of the guy working on his house, carrying lumber and other building supplies, without his crutches. Apparently the Florida weather works wonders. The footage made it all over the local KC news, and when the guy landed back in KC and got off the plane, shuffling around on his crutches, he was swarmed by reporters asking him about the whole fake injury. He got fired.