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"Hi, honey, how was your day?"
"Oh, fine, dear, the usual. I *did* help a frail older man unwedge a case of diet coke. The poor doddering old fool, was trying to bend over from the waist and pry the wedged case of diet coke with his fingernails.
"He seemed grateful."
(To my disabled friends: I am aware that some of you have experienced this, daily, for years and years.
My bestie/ex- has been nearly deaf since her 20s, and I had my first brush with disability then, and helping, as I was her main interpreter.
I'm just aging, badly, rapidly, as it happens, but unlike you, I kinda did it to myself.
Anyway, I love you, as always, and I'm sorry to be learning more about this experience so late in the day.)
@GeePawHill
Rage, motherfucker, rage!
More good advice from me: your doctor, attorney, and spiritual advisor.
@RonJeffries You know, in the biopic they make for me, they're gonna portray you as a controlling manipulative guru mastermind.
@GeePawHill It's all good. So you had a temporary disability? Those are much cooler than those that hang around for years.
@mcourcel No, mine's not temporary, it's just late-arriving.
@GeePawHill
But your fan base doesn't care that you can't move that stuff.
@GeePawHill but Diet Coke is EVIL EVIL EVIL.
@geonz I never promised you a rose garden.
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I *was* appreciative, actually.
Neither my eyes nor my legs work terribly well, and crouching, which was what was needed, isn't really something I can do anymore.
I thanked him, finished shopping, and went home and had a good cry.