A few weeks back I was going to one of my Sunday family brunches. I had arrived at the restaurant ahead of everyone else for the first time, so proceeded to get out of my car. My process is to get my chair out from behind the driver's seat, then move my car seat back. As I began to move my seat, I noticed in the corner of my eye that my chair was moving away... slowly... As I reached for the chair, I realized that it wasn't moving that slowly... everything was happening in slow motion. I sat helpless as the chair moved, past the back of my car... across the lane... over to the parking entrance... down the entrance and finally to stop. Stopped by a car entering the parking lot. As the driver got out and saw where the chair came from, all I could think was what my chair might have done to his car.
The gentleman came up to me and simply said smiling, "I think you lost this?" I apologized and asked if his car was ok, and he said not to worry, it was fine... accidents happen.
So I learned, a wheelchair in the wrong hands, that is no one's hands, can be dangerous!
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