This morning, on my drive to a local coffee stand, where they expect me and have my Mocha waiting, I saw one of the poorest excuses for a driver that I’ve ever seen. I got my drivers license back many years ago, but I will never forget how hopeless I felt when the doctors and psychologist at Harborview Hospital told me my brain damage was so severe that I would never drive again.
Huh?
That might be true in other cities, but watching the driver I saw this morning was proof positive that when it comes do driving in Seattle, brain damage is a requirement!
A car suddenly stalled right in front of me. This was aggravating, but these kinds of things happen, no big deal. What shocked me was the impatient fool who passed the stalled car, on the right hand side. This guy drove his car up the curb, onto the sidewalk!
It wouldn’t have been so bad if about ten kids on their way to school hadn’t had to jump out of the way. One of the kids jumped off his bike then onto the hood of a car parked by the curb. The bike crashed to the ground right in front of the crazy driver who, apparently being nice enough not to want to cause any damage, swerved to avoid the bike. Now the problem was that swerving put him in a position so a long line of cars parked bumper to bumper were between him and the road.
It looked like he would have to stop and back up to get back on the road, but he started driving down the sidewalk! More panic stricken kids on their way to school started yelling and either climbing a fence on one side of the sidewalk or jumping on cars on the other side.
You’d think he would have slowed down, but he sped up! At the end of the block is a coffee stand. The crazy driver screeched to a stop in the handicapped parking stall and went in to get his waiting Mocha.
Speaker - Author - Standup Comic
- Al Foxx
- United States
- Founder President,.....................................www.winnersdontquit.org----------Winners Don't Quit Association
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Aloha Al, let's see if this works. But it was very interesting reading your blog and your going to be great inspiration to others!!
this is just a test comment to see if it's working, which it seems to be.
Hi Al! Since folks surfing the web have the attention span of a gnat, if possible, I'd also put a link to a general comments page at the very top by the "instructions" that are in red typeface (which by the ways looks too much like a link itself and should be the regular color.)
That said, I think this is way cool and I'm glad you are building a forum such as this. I see many possiblle uses, one of which is a support community (maybe meetup too?) for disabled folks. I sent the links to your general website and to this blog to the Disabiity coordinator here at Harvard. I mentioned how your presence at any functions she might be planning would make it all the more colorful. And I mentioned how such an inspiration as you might be soothing to a student in dark moments.
Perhaps she will contact you at some point. If not, you might want to follow up with her directly in a few months.
All the best, your biggest fan,
Katherine
PS Don't hate -- or revere-- me cuz I'm an "Ivy leaguer." Your wisdom runs much deeper than the roots of Harvard Ivy.
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