Also inspiring!
I was leaving hospital on an unnecessarily wet and unreasonably windy day, having sustained a fracture in my big toe that left me with a steel splint and a half leg cast to allow it to recover. It took me about fifteen minutes to cover the short walk from the fracture clinic to the hospital entrance so I could board the bus home and I was feeling incredibly sorry for myself.

The bus stops location outside the hospital is located is where the long-term patients who still have some mobility tended to congregate for a cigarette. On that day there was one man, obviously worse for wear, sat in a wheelchair wearing shorts and a t-shirt. He was looking happily out at the greenery that separated the hospital grounds with the network of roads that surrounded it, paying no attention to the soaking he was getting from the rain and the constant gusts of wind that were causing what seemed to be mini tornadoes of leaves to spiral up to the heavens in the corner of the nearby car park. He was smoking a freshly lit cigarette and on the arm of his wheelchair was his packet Superkings and box of Swan matches. As there was no one else in sight, I engaged him in a brief chat while waiting for the bus to arrive. He revealed that a few months beforehand he had been involved in an accident that necessitated the removal of his right arm below the elbow and both legs above the knee.

Lighting a fag in those conditions with only one arm, using a match? That’s overcoming adversity!
( Muns, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 14:40, 4 replies)

Good story
but how did they remove his legs above the knee, without removing the lower part too?
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:04, closed)

Just imagine someone doing a hand-stand
it makes sense then.
( Muns, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:34, closed)

He probably had to have them removed due to smoking but was too embarrassed to admit it.

(*, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 15:20, closed)

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perhaps he was hit by a tobacco van. Is there such a thing? If there is, then they'll get rid of them soon. Daily Star headine: "Spacko Tobacco Van Ban".
( browser still relating boring anecdotes into a void on, Thu 13 Dec 2012, 16:20, closed)