China Chairs
Usually when you see a person in a wheelchair you think, "Person in a wheelchair person in a wheelchair person in a wheelchair person in a wheelchair..." and stare at their tiny little legs, and maybe watch their buff arms, slightly tanned from the sun because Van Tran kept them waiting in the sun for 45 minutes. But anyway you look at their arms pushing their own weight and admire their athleticism and then look at your own arms and think "Shit I can WALK to the gym and work out and I still don't have as good as arms as they do." Or something along those lines.
But today my gaze was different. I was sitting a the Fat Greek restaurant on University and Park and as the strong taste of the feta punched my tongue I saw the weirdest wheelchair girl in this history of campus cripples. I'll call her China Chair. She was this cheery ass Asian girl with long brown hair talking REALLY loudly on her cell phone in her pimped out electric chair. Haha electric chair sounds kinda bad. Her electric-powered chair. She was going pretty fast and her little legs were dangling and kicking like a hungry baby in a stool. Her hand kept missing the controls for her chair and she jaggedly swerved off course in the middle of the crosswalk then she put the pedal (or wheel?) to the metal and shot through to the other side of the street with her long brown locks trailing behind her in reaction to momentum. As she finally made it to the other side she cut in front of these two girls. Her technique reminded me of Bruce Willis' driving in Die Hard 4. She was unstoppable and on a mission- to cross the street. When she finally parked her chair she yelled on the phone, "OK I'M HERE SO I'LL JUST...WAIT." I mean what else was she gonna do? Wheel in to Divas and try some clothes on? I don't think so.
But today my gaze was different. I was sitting a the Fat Greek restaurant on University and Park and as the strong taste of the feta punched my tongue I saw the weirdest wheelchair girl in this history of campus cripples. I'll call her China Chair. She was this cheery ass Asian girl with long brown hair talking REALLY loudly on her cell phone in her pimped out electric chair. Haha electric chair sounds kinda bad. Her electric-powered chair. She was going pretty fast and her little legs were dangling and kicking like a hungry baby in a stool. Her hand kept missing the controls for her chair and she jaggedly swerved off course in the middle of the crosswalk then she put the pedal (or wheel?) to the metal and shot through to the other side of the street with her long brown locks trailing behind her in reaction to momentum. As she finally made it to the other side she cut in front of these two girls. Her technique reminded me of Bruce Willis' driving in Die Hard 4. She was unstoppable and on a mission- to cross the street. When she finally parked her chair she yelled on the phone, "OK I'M HERE SO I'LL JUST...WAIT." I mean what else was she gonna do? Wheel in to Divas and try some clothes on? I don't think so.