I do get a kick out of seeing people's faces when I hop up out of my wheelchair and walk unaided to my car door. Lol, as if no one can understand needing a wheelchair unless you're paralyzed.
Yeah, I am endlessly frustrated by people and places that are so black and white about accessibility. They just don't think about it with any level of complexity. Like there are two kinds of people in the world: quadriplegic and fully able! There is a very busy subway station in NYC that has an insane ramp with something like 12 turns and switchbacks to go from one floor to another - it is technically wheelchair accessible, but is absolutely hell on earth if you are (for example) struggling on crutches or using a walker.
Right!!! I've been on arm crutches for a year until I recently got bad enough to need the chair, but fuuuuuck me, it's hard to get around on crutches!
That said, I bought my crutches during the pandemic when there was a shortage. Everywhere was sold out, hospitals were begging people to donate crutches. The only pair I could find were the most expensive ones that are made. $300 each.
I had been lusting after them but couldn't really justify them for how brief I expected to use them. I didn't know at the time that my first surgery would be delayed by over a year or that I would need 6 surgeries, so it felt like a stupidly expensive purchase at the time, but turned out to be the best thing ever with how long I need them, especially since I got steadily worse and needed them more and more as time went on. And I'll continue to need them for the next several years.
They have shocks, all-terrain grips, lights, pads, and even horns! Best $600 I've ever spent in my entire life.
This isn't a thread about good purchases though. So I'll get the topic back on track.
Another thing I'm lusting over is a second car to leave at our second home. Our place is out in rural Newfoundland and it's a 31 hour drive to get there (including a 7hr ferry). Car rentals out there are very expensive and extremely hard to find, plus we stay there for months on end.
Granted, the drive out there is a lot of fun and we have a lot of family along the way to visit, whom we otherwise wouldn't see enough of because they're spread out along a 20hr stretch and it's hard to visit them all except on this particular drive where they're nearly perfectly lined up for stops along the way with minimal detours.
One of us flies with the animals and the other does a solo road trip. I personally prefer to drive, I absolutely love long solo road trips. So it works just fine as it is, but it would be nice to have the option to just both fly out. But that would involve owning, insuring, maintaining, and storing two cars, and other than this trip, we barely drive!
Totally unnecessary.
Topic: What's the stupidest thing you're lusting after right now? (Read 1317617 times)
