https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45765767
Too proud to accept a ride in the wheelchair they had available.
After an accident I was wheelchair bound for a few weeks. The nicest people imaginable spring out of the woodwork to help. Proud? I was just humbled by the kindness of Joe Public.
In the course of our business we once dropped a man out of his wheelchair onto the pavement. Mrs C2 was screaming and I was thinking we could get the body out through the back door under cover of darkness. Turned out he was a wheelchair rugby player - we'd just done a bad tackle - he was also a gentleman and a scholar. Not our finest hour but he was clearly equally worried about the effect he was having on us as we were about the effect we had just had on him. Nice guy. Not your 'loon in a wheelchair' kind of guy.
I guess you get loons in wheelchairs in pretty much the same proportion as anywhere else.
Too proud to accept a ride in the wheelchair they had available.
After an accident I was wheelchair bound for a few weeks. The nicest people imaginable spring out of the woodwork to help. Proud? I was just humbled by the kindness of Joe Public.
In the course of our business we once dropped a man out of his wheelchair onto the pavement. Mrs C2 was screaming and I was thinking we could get the body out through the back door under cover of darkness. Turned out he was a wheelchair rugby player - we'd just done a bad tackle - he was also a gentleman and a scholar. Not our finest hour but he was clearly equally worried about the effect he was having on us as we were about the effect we had just had on him. Nice guy. Not your 'loon in a wheelchair' kind of guy.
I guess you get loons in wheelchairs in pretty much the same proportion as anywhere else.