I got around pretty good, learning quickly with the desire of youth to cope,
but my right leg is atrophied significantly from the knee down. You would
laugh at the collection of devices I constructed to strap on, even under the
socks of a baseball uniform, so nobody would notice.
Now I don't give a damn, just as long as it'll get me out to the mailbox and
back. :-)
Libations? I'm ready when you are. I consider that post-polio therapy,
particularly on those days when I can't do much else. :-[
Walt
--
"Anything more than 500 yards from
the car just isn't photogenic." --
Edward Weston
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> 1. I meant that to be off-list, but it wasn't, so the brain/finger
> interface was not in sync.
> 2. I took it to mean "watch out for those with handicap tags cuz they
> are usually stupid drivers". I don't think that was your intent,
> but it seemed to come out that way.
>
>
> OK, we share the same disease (1949, left leg involvement, have used a
> forearm crutch since grade 6... now Titanium but WHERE THE F*#K IS MY
> OM-3T to match!?!) but have not PPS to speak of. So, I truly, truly
> understand where you're coming from in terms of current limitations,
> denial (most of us are type-A as a result of polio), etc.
>
> What I think this really means is that me and Walt (southern for Walt
> and I) need to meet up, have a few libations and find photo subjects
> that are closer than 500 yards/meters.
>
> I find more bad drivers who are mentally handicapped with no tag than
> otherwise.
>
> Earl
>
> Walt Wayman wrote:
>
> >Okay, Earl:
> >
> >Offends you why?
> >
> >At the age of 11, in 1952, I had what we called back in the dark ages
> "infantile paralysis," some three or four years before Dr. Salk came up with
> the
> vaccine. I wore braces for two years, then, like Forrest Gump, was too damn
> dumb to know I was crippled and even managed to wrangle an athletic
> scholarship
> (baseball), not to some podunk junior college, but to an NCAA Division 1
> school,
> the University of Tennessee. I didn't play much, but what the hell.
> >
> >A few years after I graduated in 1962, I did 23 months in Vietnam as a
> television news photographer, most of the time right up front with the
> grunts,
> staring at Charley. The second helicopter crash sent me home way more
> buggered
> up than I was when I went over.
> >
> >To make a long story short, like this one ought to be: Weston's 500-yard
> >limit
> became mine when it got to be more and more obvious that that's about as far
> as
> I can haul my increasingly creaky old ass these days. There's that
> post-polio
> thing, you know, and it's beginning to make some of my days stay at home, sit
> on
> my butt and aggravate people on line time. At least my fingers still work,
> which may not be appreciated by some, but my mouth is even harder to deal
> with
> because it's faster than my fingers. :-)
> >
> >Sorry if I touched a nerve.
> >
> >Walt, the gimp in denial
> >
> >--
> >"Anything more than 500 yards from
> >the car just isn't photogenic." --
> >Edward Weston
> >
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> >From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >>OK, that offends me.
> >>
> >>Walt Wayman wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>I often suspect as much, so I give these folks a wide berth (although I
> qualify
> >>>
> >>>
> >>for a cripple tag myself; I'm must not ready to advertise my infirmities
> >>yet).
> >>And I steer clear of rental trucks, too, which are frequently driven by
> numbnuts
> >>who until an hour ago may never have aimed anything bigger than a
> >>Volkswagen.
> >>
> >>
> >>>One-legged moron driving a U-Haul while yakking on a cell phone hits me --
> >>>
> >>>
> >>that's why we have guns around here. Sometimes the herd just has to be
> thinned.
> >>
> >>
> >>>Walt
> >>>
> >>>--
> >>>"Anything more than 500 yards from
> >>>the car just isn't photogenic." --
> >>>Edward Weston
> >>>
> >>>-------------- Original message ----------------------
> >>>From: <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Oh, and she had a handicapped tag.
> >>>>
> >>>>Cause and effect?
> >>>>
> >>>>
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