But he doesn’t look disabled!
I walked into Wal-Mart yesterday and the two greeters were having an argument about one giving away the last Mart Cart, the motorized scooter. One of the greeters was an elderly lady who walks with a cane and is allowed to sit for her entire shift. This greeter said to the other, “But he didn’t look like there was anything wrong with him!” To which the other greeter replied, “but he said it was for his mother.”
Do you know how many times my friend (who’d had a broken leg after a car accident) and I would be walking around a store, and she’d get tired and sore and I’d have to go back to the front of the store and get her a Mart Cart? I had to leave her where she was because it hurt too much to walk all the way back.
Did I “look” like there was anything wrong with me when my ankle was injured in the same accident and I used one for a couple of weeks? How about the time I dropped the bowling ball on my foot and rode one around?
People, you can’t always tell if someone is disabled by looking at them. My friend can now sometimes walk without a limp, but she’s still often in a lot of pain.
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