Handicap Ramps
When you’re handicapped and need to get around in a wheelchair, or an electric handicap scooter, there is just nothing worse than steps. Steps were made for legs to walk up and down, which is fine if yours work ok. But when they don’t and you have to rely on wheels to do the work for them, then a step suddenly creates an impassible obstacle. Which is why handicap ramps are such a good idea.
Let me tell you about them, from my own viewpoint, which is a little lower than the average, but hey, what can you do except get some bigger wheels…
Ok, the first thing I wanna say is congratulations to the public buildings around my town. Cause they all have easy access for guys like me to wheel in and wheel out again. Sure they still have steps, but they also have handicap ramps built in to the entrances and other areas that I have to get at. Even better, they included wheelchair stair lifts, but that’s a topic for another post, I guess.
So the ramps are concrete and non-slip which I can tell you on a wet day is just heaven, when you compare some places that have theirs tiled with those tiles that look great and grip ok when they’re dry, but as soon as you get some rain on them, then who needs to pay money to go ice-skating! Yeah, I’ve had some scary moments on them slippery tiles in the wet I don’t mind tellin ya! But in my town, the handicap ramps at the public buildings were obviously designed with the help of someone in a wheelchair who likely got into a broadside skid on those same slippy tiles!
Now, I have some portable handicap ramps for those times when the town planners were napping and put in steps and forgot the inclines for us wheel powered get-goers. They’re aluminum with non-slip surfaces and they’re just two feet long, but that’s enough to make getting up or down awkward single steps possible when I don’t have any help at hand.
And there’s another thing, I wanna say thanks to all the kind folks that did help me up and down sidewalks where I couldn’t do it myself before I got ahold of those lightweight aluminum ramps for myself. They’re the ones that took time to help a fellow citizen and stand head and shoulders above all the rest of them who put their heads down and walked on by without acknowledging that I even existed. Yeah, some folks live their whole lives like that, I guess maybe lifting up their heads so the TV can send some more brain-washing signals into their already dumbed out gray matter. Hehe, buy another Mac-cowburger and feed your swollen fat cells dumbo! You know you want it cause the TV says so…
Ok, that’s enough of my little poke-fun moments for now. I’ll be doing plenty of that as I go, because I sit here, oh heck I have to sit here know what I mean, and I see where the TV is taking us cause nobody is resisting it!
I’ll be back before ya know it!