Scooter Children Stuff- Why we do it.
I only have one close friend who is also a fellow scooter child. Amanda. Despite popular belief, we don't all clan together and live in a community of wheelchair accessible houses in a quaint little forest. For years I have tried to prove to the world that I (and other scooted children as well) are just like everybody else. That the only differences about us are physical. That we are normal. Yeah...we are so not normal. I mean sure we all have ipods, have watched far more movies then books read, sleep with our cell phones next to us, and hate Wal-Mart. Just like the rest of the Western world (although, we hate Wal-Mart for different reasons). Still, we are not normal. We do odd things. We do scooter child stuff. And maybe I am speaking too soon for an entire population. I am. But the only experiences I have are my own. And they are far from normal.
Every time Amanda and I are together we can't help encountering adventure. We don't even look for it, it just finds us. I mean, how often would you go into a coffee house and be confronted by a peculiar black man who silently insists on giving you several hugs, handshakes, a word of warning, and a compliment? Although it is strange, it's really not so strange to us. We get stuff like that all the time. All in a days work really.
I mentioned that we do scooter children stuff. If you are asking what that is, its difficult to explain. Some examples of scooter child stuff would be riding the elevators up and down in a library, or dancing and singing on the sidewalks downtown Salt Lake at 2 a.m., talking to each person that walks by. We find an absurd amount of delight in the toys they give out with Wendy's kids meals. We make music videos with very little actual singing or dancing involved. We talk on msn messenger to each other while we sit side by side at the counter. We throw food in restaurants hitting people we don't know. We climb into washing machines and dryers...because we feel like it? We cause scenes in public on purpose because we like the attention and to entertain (besides, people expect it and we hate to disappoint). Our method of revenge is to place whole slices of Kraft singles (cheese) on your car in the middle of the night. We tell people who look at us a second too long to "stop staring! And eat your checkers!" And one of my favorites, we yell greetings and wave at people we don't know from the car window. All of this is scooter children stuff. Why do we do it? And what makes it qualify as scooter child stuff? Only a few people can truly understand this. Sure you might think you understand our reasoning and logic behind it, but its doubtful that you really do. I could tell you that we do it because we can. That's true, we do it because we can, but there is more to it then that. Much more. It's important. It’s scooter children stuff because we are the scooter children. And we are the only scooter child each of us has. If we do those things with anyone else, the effect is not the same. There is a constant understanding happening between us. A comradery not to be found elsewhere. The fact that we do these things together helps us embrace our scooter child-ness and reminds us that not being “normal” is a pretty amazing adventure.
Every time Amanda and I are together we can't help encountering adventure. We don't even look for it, it just finds us. I mean, how often would you go into a coffee house and be confronted by a peculiar black man who silently insists on giving you several hugs, handshakes, a word of warning, and a compliment? Although it is strange, it's really not so strange to us. We get stuff like that all the time. All in a days work really.
I mentioned that we do scooter children stuff. If you are asking what that is, its difficult to explain. Some examples of scooter child stuff would be riding the elevators up and down in a library, or dancing and singing on the sidewalks downtown Salt Lake at 2 a.m., talking to each person that walks by. We find an absurd amount of delight in the toys they give out with Wendy's kids meals. We make music videos with very little actual singing or dancing involved. We talk on msn messenger to each other while we sit side by side at the counter. We throw food in restaurants hitting people we don't know. We climb into washing machines and dryers...because we feel like it? We cause scenes in public on purpose because we like the attention and to entertain (besides, people expect it and we hate to disappoint). Our method of revenge is to place whole slices of Kraft singles (cheese) on your car in the middle of the night. We tell people who look at us a second too long to "stop staring! And eat your checkers!" And one of my favorites, we yell greetings and wave at people we don't know from the car window. All of this is scooter children stuff. Why do we do it? And what makes it qualify as scooter child stuff? Only a few people can truly understand this. Sure you might think you understand our reasoning and logic behind it, but its doubtful that you really do. I could tell you that we do it because we can. That's true, we do it because we can, but there is more to it then that. Much more. It's important. It’s scooter children stuff because we are the scooter children. And we are the only scooter child each of us has. If we do those things with anyone else, the effect is not the same. There is a constant understanding happening between us. A comradery not to be found elsewhere. The fact that we do these things together helps us embrace our scooter child-ness and reminds us that not being “normal” is a pretty amazing adventure.