How about those fancy-ass Indy car drivers?
I have two things to say about them. First, can we even refer to those things they drive as cars? I suppose they’re cars in the sense that they have four wheels and a steering wheel and an engine. By that loose definition, a go-kart is also a car. So are some lawnmowers. But those Indy cars are more like wheeled rockets than cars. I feel the same way about those wheelchairs that wheelchair racers use. It’s hard for me to think of those things wheelchairs. Yeah, they’re chairs with wheels, but hell, the frame is triangular and when you sit in one your ass is about an inch above the ground. Nobody rides around in one of those unless they’re trying to go 500 miles an hours and win a race. No sane cripple would use a chair like that for a normal activity, like going to a drug store, unless they were some kind of super pretentious show-off.
And here’s the other thing I have to say about those fancy-ass
Indy car drivers. Put them in a
motorized wheelchair and then let's see how fancy they drive! They’ll end up capsized in a ditch straight off! It’s
especially true if it’s a sip-and-puff chair, where you drive the wheelchair by blowing
into a tube. I have one of those sip-and-puff attachments on my chair. I call it my blower. And when I was first trying to figure out how the hell to drive with it, oh man,
I wildly zigzagged all over the place like somebody trying not to be shot by a
sniper. You should have seen all the gashes and scrapes I put in the walls of
the hallway outside my apartment.
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