Rude Cripples

It hit me that I could probably get away with being a lot more rude than I already am, just because I’m crippled. Take, for example, that time when I finished checking out at the grocery store and I headed for the exit, which was down a narrow passageway. Behind me were three verts (which is what I call people who walk because it’s short for vertical). Because I usually drive my motorized wheelchair slowly, especially when I am trying to maneuver through tight spaces, I stopped and let the verts go ahead of me. I was just trying to be polite because I figured that they would never be able to zip past me in the narrow passageway and I didn’t want to hold them up. It’s like getting stuck behind some pokey-ass driver on the Interstate. So the verts all hustled past me and then I wondered what would’ve happened if I hadn't decided to be polite. Suppose I just went first and made all the verts walk real slow behind me. I’m sure that they would have been tempted to do like they would do when they get stuck behind a pokey-ass driver on the Interstate and speed around me, giving me the finger as they passed. But I know that none of them would’ve actually done that for fear that some surveillance camera might catch them in the act of being mean to a cripple and that footage would be forever immortalized on the internet. In that regard, I am a member of a protected class. The poor verts probably would have just plodded along behind me, trying not to show that they were seething inside. If I was a vert walking real slow and holding them up like that they probably would have impatiently pushed on past me. But since I am crippled, they would have had to just put up with it. As I watched the verts scurrying away, I must admit that I was mad at myself for blowing a golden opportunity to be rude. And then I was mad at myself for being mad at myself for something as silly as that. (Please support Smart Ass Cripple and help us keep going. Just click below to contribute.) https://www.paypal.me/smartasscripple?fbclid=IwAR2qrql-UFH19OepgeaCG4WmblyNylb27k2q8eYxXHH-