Cripple attack!
I have a friend in York who after an operation blunder is confined to a wheelchair, the man, however, is more independent than most able bodied guys I know, he gave ME lifts to places in his converted 4x4 for example and would often growl at other wheelchair bound individuals he saw being pushed about to 'Push your own bloody wheels you lazy feckers!'.

Knowing him completely changed my attitude to wheelchair bound folk, and I know now that being disabled doesn't necessarily mean being disadvantaged and requiring your sympathy, but then again, I guess that's the point of PC-ism, isn't it, to try to make that happen?

Anyway, he is very much one of the lads and is treated as such, including some very un-PC cripple jokes sometimes, most often used by his equally independent (able bodied) girlfriend.

Needless to say, he has no problems using others' overly PC attitudes and disability concessions to his advantage, it's always best to let him go first in a crowded pub for example, a wheelchair cuts through any gathering, and he would often take friends to gigs/theme parks/cinemas and such, get them in free as his 'helpers', get them all front row wide spaced seats, jump queues, alsorts, and they could all be as lairy as they liked, nobody would touch them!

One time that always sticks in my mind was a trip out to Whitby, he, his girlfriend, me and a few mates, had all piled into his spacious car for a day out in the summer sun and a fish supper, his treat, and we were fooling about on the pier chucking chips at seagulls when, as often happens, some of his rather cutting wit was somewhat foolishly directed at his other half and, equally not that unusual, she took objection to this and decided she was gonna go slap him one. Cue a Benny Hill style chase as he, with the advantage of a large open concreted space to play with, half giggling half seriously scared of his lasses wrath, went rolling along at speed, chips on his lap, with her chasing behind him shouting, 'Come back here you fecking cripple, or when I catch ya I'll take yer fecking wheels off!!'

I thought for sure, from the looks on some folks faces, we were all gonna be arrested, or at least hit with a walking stick or something, but I wouldn't have missed the spectacle of her catching him up, applying his brakes, and slapping him about from behind with a rather scary looking smile on her face in front of a truly horrified crowd of mostly auld retired folks, for all the chinks in china land.

Lovely couple, bit mad though...
( ..wil, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 12:12, 4 replies)

hahaha
i laughed so loudly at that story, my boss wanted to know what I was laughing at...!
(drain_bamaged, Mon 26 Nov 2007, 13:24, closed)

my cousin
he's in a wheelchair, he won't get a disabled sticker for his car, but he runs his own farm and gets himself & his wheelchair up stairs faster than I can go!
(loki lie smith kiss me til I'm in a coma, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 2:27, closed)

Haha, that is an ace story.

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 8:39, closed)

A friend of mine
had his legs removed when he was younger, becuase they didn't work and were 'slowing him down'.

We then managed to convince a man in the pub that he had amputated his legs because they were black and he was a racist. Good times!
(pacman_40 Pocket Kleenex: for the wanker on the go, Tue 27 Nov 2007, 13:19, closed)