Bitter Old Cripples and Their Pet Pterodactyls

I am here to tell all of those who grew up watching Jonny Quest cartoons that not all cripples are bitter old men who live in mountain caves with pet Pterodactyls who kill on their command. Because I recently watched one of these cartoons for the first and only time and that’s who the bad guy was. He was an old man in a wheelchair that was way too big for him. And it turns out that he also had a bunch of slaves and he warned them that if they ever did anything to cross him he would have his Pterodactyl kill them. The crippled old man sat perusing the valley below from the entrance of his cave and when he saw Jonny Quest and his entourage down there he ordered his faithful Pterodactyl to check them out. And when one of Jonny’s entourage saw a giant bird circling above and squawking like a maniac he made the brilliant observation that he thought such birds were extinct. And then somehow they figured out all that stuff about the cripled old cavedwelling slaveholder. And then, to top it all off, one of the entourage said, “He belongs in an institution.” I don’t know what happened after that because I stopped watching. I couldn’t take it anymore. But I bet that in the end Jonny Quest (good) prevailed over the crippled guy (evil). So if watching Jonny Quest cartoons was how you got your notions about cripples as a kid, you got it all wrong. Like I said, not all cripples are bitter old men who live in mountain caves with pet Pterodactyls who kill on their command. Some cripples aren’t even men and I’ve never heard of a real live cripple who had a pet Pterodactyl. After all, they’re extinct, you know. And cripples don’t belong in institutions, either. (Please support Smart Ass Cripple and help us keep going. Just click below to contribute.) https://www.paypal.me/smartasscripple?fbclid=IwAR2qrql-UFH19OepgeaCG4WmblyNylb27k2q8eYxXHH