Wheelchair Adventures

You know those motorized wheel chairs at the grocery store?

Well if I do venture out, I am forced to use one of these. Let me warn you, they are not all create equal. Some of them turn on a dime, some of them take a football field to turn around in. All of them BEEP really loud when you back up. Some of them turn off if you shift your weight even slightly, and basically all of them make you feel like a complete n00b when you are forced to drive them.

I love how people see a younger person in one and automatically assume, that I get some kind of freakish pleasure out of driving one around. Turns out I have a valid reason to be in one thanks.

The other day, while waiting for my prescriptions to be done, Hubs, Cricket and I were perusing our local Associated Foods store. Turns out the wheelchair I had picked didn't stop when it was supposed too... Which resulted in me running into various things, and people... including one very small little girl. Yep. That's me... Watch out!

We notified the store, and it wasn't until I ran one of their baggers over while in the checkout that they believed me. The next day Hubs said there was a sign on said wheelchair that said: "Warning, doesn't stop". Please feel free to use it anyway?

As much as I loathe Wal-Mart, they have the BEST motorized wheelchairs, the "Amigos". They actually move at a pace in which when I am driving one, Hubs doesn't have to walk in slow motion to walk with me. And they turn like a dream :)

Another adventure involved the same AF store, but what I am assuming was a different chair (this chair moved about .0009 mph). As I was getting into the chair, I could hear a couple talking about how people abuse the wheelchair privleges, and how I am probably just to fat and lazy to actually walk while I shop (mind you just walking into the store from the car caused me to go into full contractions, and hard back labor and severe pain, I am obviously in pain, and Hubs said I had no color in my face at all, so obviously something was wrong). This boy (trying to impress his date) tells her that he had to show is scars to an associate to be permitted to use the wheelchair after surgery (Um? Really? Cause I have never seen the wheelchair police before...so?). The girl told him how brave he was and I hoped we would not see them again... Well turns out they needed EVERYTHING we needed. Yep. And they commented about how lazy I was the entire time.... In the ice cream isle (I'm pregnant give me a break) the boy was trying to pick out a flavor of ice cream with the girl. She tells him that she will only eat no fat no sugar soy frozen yogurt so she doesn't get fat (really?), but her favorite treat is celery, so maybe they should just get that (seriously? Let's be realistic, there won't be a second date... no one, I mean no one picks celery over ice cream!). When they got close to us, I loudly tell Hubs to give me the biggest, fattiest tub of ice cream he can find, since I'm fat and lazy anyway, and rolled off, leaving the twig to her celery :)