Been getting a taste of what disabled people go through routinely. Been walking with a cane this week (bad case of plantar fasciitis). And the nasty comments people make. Like when they have to go around me because I'm slow getting through the door. "You may have all day. I don't." (Followed by little girl accompanying the commenter "yeah, we don't have all day". Great lesson to teach your kid Mom.) Or when I'm able to put down the cane briefly to get something off the shelf: "look, he's faking it." I hope to off the cane soon. But I have to admit I'm shocked that deliberate rude remarks (from freakin adults) are so common.
Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.
'The Killer In Me'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Typo Boy - Aug 05, 2008 12:04:52 pm PDT #1369 of 10003
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
sumi - Aug 05, 2008 12:08:41 pm PDT #1370 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Man, people really do suck.
Jesse - Aug 05, 2008 12:08:48 pm PDT #1371 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Hey! I know the woman who wrote the book on surviving disaster.
Theodosia - Aug 05, 2008 12:10:30 pm PDT #1372 of 10003
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
You could try saying loudly "Next week I won't have a cane, but you'll still be rude!"
erikaj - Aug 05, 2008 12:13:37 pm PDT #1373 of 10003
Always Anti-fascist!
Sorry, dude, welcome to my world. Now you know why I love it when Dr. House is so rude. Or why it bonded me to Keith Olbermann when he answered his detractors with "Save oxygen. Kill yourself." (I should be horrified,but I never felt so close to a notorious person. Although he is not allowed to e-mail the public anymore because he did that.)
Kathy A - Aug 05, 2008 12:15:14 pm PDT #1374 of 10003
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Good one, Theodosia!
Happy birthday, Fred Pate!!
Yay, Cubs won! They were down 7-6 at the 7th-inning stretch, but by the end of that inning, they were up 11-7, which was the final score. Thank you, Soriano, for the 3-run homer.
I know you can get vanilla sugar from Penzey's Spices.
Polgara - Aug 05, 2008 12:22:17 pm PDT #1375 of 10003
Karma is a cat, sleeping in my lap cuz it loves me. ~TS
Polgara! I almost called you this weekend to see if you wanted to hang out.
Hey, chica! S'ok, I had a fairly busy weekend anyway, where "busy" is defined as "too much shopping."
tommyrot - Aug 05, 2008 12:28:10 pm PDT #1376 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Yay, Cubs won! They were down 7-6 at the 7th-inning stretch,
Obviously, my stopping watching them caused them to suck, but only for five innings....
JZ - Aug 05, 2008 12:39:49 pm PDT #1377 of 10003
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Wow, Typo, that's appalling. What were these people, raised by wolves who finally threw their paws up in the air and walked away snarling, "I give up"?
Now you know why I love it when Dr. House is so rude.
But, but, how will you people ever educate us and make us better, nobler humans if you're not all sweet and magical? Because that's totally your job.
§ ita § - Aug 05, 2008 12:45:39 pm PDT #1378 of 10003
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Thankfully all I got was teased when I spent a few months on a cane. Which is good, because I was about to snap the whole time.