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I have to tell you guys about this incident that happened to a friend of mine. He had asked his neighbor next to his sign shop if he could use his truck to go to the store during lunch. The neighbor said, "Go ahead but if it dies on you have to wait about five minutes before you can try to start it again." Well lo and behold it dies just off the freeway and the store is about 1/4 mile away. He's sitting there and a double amputee comes up behind him and asks if he needs a push?? Not wanting to hurt his feelings my friend says that if he wants to help go ahead, thinking there's not much a guy in a wheel chair can do. Chris, the guy in the wheelchair just tells my friend to get in and pop the clutch when it gets up to speed. My friend is thinking that he doesn't want to hurt his feelings so humors him by following his instructions. Chris pulls up to his bumper in his wheelchair and gives it full throttle and yells to my buddy, "Pop the clutch!" My friends pops the clutch and the doggone thing fires up! Chris is signaling touchdown and my friend makes it up to the grocery store.
------------------ There is nothing new under the sun. What will be has already been and what has been will be again. Daniel R. Perez Daniez Dzines Fresno, CA daniez2001@yahoo.com
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There's a guy who lives a few miles from the shop who has no arms. I passed him on the highway one time and had to do a double-take. He was cruising down the road with one foot on the wheel.
Saw him open a door once with his chin at the technical school where he was taking Drafting.
He and some other folks were picking up pecans in a grove by the shop I worked at. As he headed for the car, a tall gate stood in the way. He worried a tinkered with the chain latch for a little while, gave a disgusted look, and climbed over the gate like it was nothing.
The man is simply amazing.
------------------ Wayne Webb Webb Sign Studio creators of "woodesigns" "autograph your work with excellence" webbsignstudio@digitalexp.com
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Yes these guys are really great - My Dad is handicapped too. He became quadraplegic after he had a bad reaction to a flu jab in 1975. Over time he beat the predictions and he can walk around like the rest of us but he has paralayis in his arms and hands and legs and feet. Now he is developing osteoporosis in his feet. He doesn't have proper use of his hands or any feeling. Now that he is 60 he is getting worse again but he fights it all the way. If there is one thing that totally pisses me off its people who don't need to parking in the spots marked for handicapped drivers.
------------------ Karen Tighe, Strandhill, Sligo in the Wild Wet West of Ireland.
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Karen, I could'nt agree with you more. I'm fighting the urge to get a handicapped parking sticker because by definition I am handicapped. However, I'm not dead yet and I'll walk that extra mile for anybody who needs it. I guess what I'm trying to say is that there are people that have so much more to give than all us so-called "normies."
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I have to say that there is a gentleman here in our area that is totally blind and when I first moved here as a complete fool,I didn't know about him. Many folks asked if I had seen Frank today and I would asnwer NO! But this one day I saw this man walking down a hill on the road and I moved the car more to the centre lane not to scare him or hit him.. Well up goes his hand and he's waving at me as thought he knows me and as a stupid fool I start to wave back!!!! I thought about it and the next time someone ask me if I had meet Frank they told myself about how he likes to play the joke on people by waving. The next time I saw Frank on the road and he was waving to me I stop and said Frank please don't wave at me as I might aim for you! He starts to laugh and to this day when he waves I honk the horn so he knows who's there...
Raven/2000
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Karen, I agree with you. People that park in Handicapped spaces that don't need to, piss me off too! Keep in mind though that some people have mental disabilities that make it hard for them to walk distances from the safety of their vehicles. I now check for a H.C. sign on their mirror before I kick the crap out of them. LOL
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Karen, Don't EVEN get me started. My husband is handicapped from a stroke and a nightmare heart surgery. We have a van with the wheel chair lift. I have to physically lift him out of bed into the chair, so when I take him some where between the back pain and the frustration I am ready to scream. I beleive that little old blue haired ladies who can walk all over Wal-mart should be shamed for taking up EVERY handicapped spot just because they can. It takes 8 to 10 feet outside the door of the lift to get a handicapped person out and off the lift. One of these days I'm gonna loose it and get shot! There was a guy at the grocery store who took the last spot and then turned to grin at me. Mistake, I stopped the van & got out because he had no special tag. I asked him what his problem was and he replied, "I have a sore right foot." I told him that my husband wishes he had a sore right foot or a right foot for that matter. Would you beleive the redneck jerk laughed at me? So I blocked him in, unloaded the Boss and stayed in the store for 1 and 1/2 hrs. He called the cops, but he got the ticket! One officer pulled me to the side, and said, "Way to go Maam" Most days I just laugh and tell myself that most folks just don't know better. Or perhaps they don't realize the problems they cause and are nice people. This guy just caught me in a "mood". (too old to PMS) OK, I feel better now.
Bye Yall, Kathy
------------------ Kathy Joiner River Road Graphics Ponchatoula, La. Old enough to know better...Too young to resist.
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I saw a program a while back about people reproducing and selling handicapped parking certificates. Healthy people where actually buying them so they could park in the handicapped spots, and not get a ticket. I thought that was just about the lowest thing I had heard in a long time!!
Sue
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Suelynn Sedor Sedor Signs Carnduff, Sk Canada
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When I played midget football here in good ol sharpsville pa i had a coach that didnt have any arms ... hust hands at his shoulders. He was the best coach i ever had. Even with his obvious handicap he played high school football and was the kicker. He was our kicking coach and we watched him boot 50 55 and 60 yd field goals like it was nothing. He played church league basketball with my dad way back when. My father said he was the best shooter in the league.... though he couldnt dribble they'd post him up and he'd shoot the long balls with ease. This just goes to show you that you can overcome any obstacle as long as you have a strong will.
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Back in college I had a friend with one leg, name of Mickey Riordan. He had bone cancer when he was two and they took off his right leg just above mid-thigh. He had a wooden leg, but you couldn't tell except when he climbed stairs. At night he would cruise around in the dorm without his "woody" just by hopping on his good leg. He was a complete wild man goofball of a character; one of his favorite tricks, when among people who didn't know about his woody, was to take an ice pick and stab mimself in the thigh - it made this hollow "thwock" sound.
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Cam Finest Kind Signs 256 S. Broad St. Pawcatuck, Ct. 06379 "Award winning Signs since 1988"
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I worked with a woman (Amy) that had a fake leg...Once a little girl was quizing her about her leg...After their chat, Amy asked her if she liked M&M's? Yes! the little girl said. Amy then disassembled her leg and much to the surprise of the little girl, there was a bag of M&M's!
Priceless!
------------------ Cheryl Lucas a/k/a "Shag" on MIRC Vital Signs & Graphics, Etc. Cape Coral, Florida VSignsNgraphics@aol.com
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Cam, that's a funny story!! I was in the service with a guy named Roger Riordan, I wonder if they're related?
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Cheryl, Cam, those are funny stories. Are'nt we the truly disabled when we look at them dealing with life on an entirely different level. ------------------ There is nothing new under the sun. What will be has already been and what has been will be again. Daniel R. Perez Daniez Dzines Fresno, CA daniez2001@yahoo.com
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