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by Ianto Jones » Mon Apr 28, 2014 10:15 pm
My wife and I joke that my wheelchair (or powerchair, even more so) is secretly equipped with a Romulan Cloaking Device.
There have been many times that people have tripped over or into my chair, even when I was in plain sight and *completely stationary*.
And then glared at me as if I ran into them/ran them over.
There was one time in (NOLA's) the French Quarter, when we had a teenage girl trot straight down a long stretch of otherwise empty narrow sidewalk, with us *yelling at her* and me waving my arms yet she still ran straight over me! head-on.
(I couldn't dodge without falling off a steep curb/kerb).
Another time, at the Folsom Street Fair in SF, a fellow tripped over my (then-best-friend, now-also-wife) wife, by stepping *between* her footrests, then saying he didn't see her.
We worry that these folks must absolutely flatten small children...as they can't see someone from waist-to-chest high...?
Otherwise, the w/c manufacturers truly _have_ invented cloaking technology...
(This post, while true, was meant to be humorous...)