Using the wheelchair again

[TheKid]

While it's nice to ride the trike, I missed the power chair. It's so much fun to zip by pedestrians and trip them with my cane. So I took a ride this morning, and I was saddened to find no one walking.
Disillusioned, I had to find something fun to do. Maybe I could find some people at the train station, rushing to get to the train, and I could take my trusty cane and maybe trip a few at a time. I was almost there, and the train came.
This was a sad state of affairs. The next train wasn't due for another half hour. I wasn't about to wait that long.
I thought, "What would Bill Cosby do"? What came to mind was his Revenge album.
So I rode past the newspaper guy and spit on him.

[SirJoey]

That's great! :D

[TheKid]

Funny how good stuff comes to mind when deprived of sleep.

[TheKid]

Maybe I'll hook up a boxing glove to the trikes like in The Little Rascals.

[SirJoey]

I don't remember that, but it sounds funny! :D

BTW Kid, you mentioned your disability in some of your other posts, so it's more than just the fact that you broke your leg on the bent?

[TheKid]

Compressed discs in my neck, bad right hip, knee problems.
I suffered a severe loss of strength in my right arm, in the neck injury, which was a factor when I broke my leg. I couldn't hold the bike up when it went over. If the boat seat wasn't so wide, I could have used my leg to help support the weight of the bike.

[SirJoey]

Oh man, sorry to hear all that! I can soooooo relate, though. Degenerative discs in my lower back, & severe bursitis in both hips. No wheelchair, though (yet), although Doctors told me years ago that it was a real good possiblity eventually. (Sounds more like a BAD possibility, to me, LOL!) Thank the man upstairs, I'm not there YET! :)

Anyway, that's why I got into bents way back in 1985. They're great. On a bent, my hips & lower spine don't painfully move back & forth, like on an upwrong.

I know you've mentioned your knees a few times. Mine aren't bad, so far. I get an occassional twinge, but so far, I've been lucky. I'm really careful with 'em though, & try to never stress 'em, cuz I can already feel 'em, & it'd be all too easy to seriously injure 'em now.

[TheKid]

I only got the chair because of the broken leg. I've had bad knees since I was a kid, the neck and hip were work related accidents. I can't walk for too long a distance, but the bents (and the chair) make all that a moot point. The broken leg was the worse. That cut my walking distance by about 80%, but with the bikes and the chair, it doesn't matter, because I can go almost anywhere I want to. Until I resolve the disputes I have with the DMV, my only limitation is getting to one of the fishing boats I go on. The only access is by parkway, which prohibits bicycles.