Thursday, 9 January 2014

Just Sharing some Stories Today



Just sharing some stories today of some experiences I’ve had in my wheelchair. To me they are 2 pretty good stories, so I just thought I’d share hope you enjoy them. 

The first story comes from when I was in my collage days, I was doing a web design course and we were doing it up at Bournemouth University. And one day as we were all in the class doing our work and then the fire alarm goes off, and the tutor say’s right leave all your stuff and make your way outside. Everybody dose including the tutor and it’s just me left in the class room alone and I am in my wheelchair. This class room was on the 3rd floor so I could not take the stairs plus I could no longer walk, so that option was out. I was sat there like what the hell do I do, so I rolled out into the hall way and this guy shouted hey over here, I’ll hold the lift for you. So we took the lift down, and then when we arrived outside and this woman started having a pop at us for using the lift because, if it had been a real fire the lift would have got stuck. Turns out what I was meant to do was wait in the class room and the tutor was meant to carry me down the stairs, which I turned round and said if it was a real fire I’d be burning up stairs,  as my tutor ran out and left me. And she didn’t know what to say and all my tutor could say was I am so sorry I forgot about you being disabled.  Nice of that tutor hey I didn’t mind though being forgotten I didn’t appreciate the shouting from that woman, that was my first time of been in a wheelchair and a fire alarm going off I didn’t know what the rules were of what I was meant to do. When you go into a wheelchair you don’t go to wheelchair school or get a manual, you got to learn it all for yourself.

And story two comes from

A few years ago when I and my friend took a trip to Butlins for an adult weekend. We went out one night and both got really drunk, I am a light weight anyway so it doesn’t take much. We both got hungry, and they had a burger king down there, so we go to get some food, we get the food and go to leave, I go to go one way, and my friend goes dude there is a step there, and I go I got this. In my head (Expansion) this was going to work, and look awesome and all girls around would love it, and at this time in my life I was big time into stunt show like Jackass, Viva La Bam, Nitro Circus and so on. That was in my head, and then (Reality) reared its ugly head, I went for it took a little run up, as I hit the step the front of the wheelchair went down, the front wheels slammed into the floor, I fly out like superman, the wheelchair stood up on its front, me still flying, and the I flopped on to the floor like a jellyfish. Honest the place went quieter than a funeral, and then my friend just busted out with this huge laugh he was wetting himself with laughter, it was good time and I was fine I didn’t hurt myself, and it makes for a great story to tell people. 

Hope you enjoyed my stories; I was just in a sharing mood today so through I’d share. 

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