I’m sitting at me desk, and I can see into the waiting room of the clinic I work in. Right now there is a woman yelling about how the nurses are too slow, a patient in an electric wheelchair doing laps, a guy trying to trip people with his cane, and an ambulance driver talking to his wife on the phone about what groceries she should buy.
Earlier today, a delivery guy came in and proceeded to drop off 6 packages, right in the middle of the room. 15 people asked me if I noticed it. Yes I did, and I already called someone to retrieve it.
Someone knocked over a bottle of water, and stood over the puddle to make sure there were “no injuries”.
sigh It’s nothing but a circus out there.
Just because you seemed to feel badly that no one replied to your first thread…in my experience, what you describe is a pretty typical scene in any hospital waiting room, any time of day or night. And, I’ve spent way more time in emergency waiting rooms than I care to remember. 
HA HA Davebear! Thanks, I think, for replying. I was having the weirdest day, and the woman doing laps in her electric wheelchair pushed it over the edge. I had to tell SOMEone.
Yeah, I don’t know what it is with people in wheelchairs. I mean, I feel badly that anyone has to be confined to one, but that doesn’t give them license to be assholes about it. And, a lot of them are. I especially don’t like it when they going zipping down busy city streets at about 30 miles per hour. There’s no safety equipment on those things, and they don’t seem to give a damn about anyone, or anything, else. They’re dangerous.
Some models of electric wheelchairs are POWERFUL too.
During one summer while I was toiling away to pay for my university tuition, I had a bike courrier job delivering prescriptions, surgical suplies and convalescent supplies. When the truck driver had holidays, I got to drive the van!
One day I dropped off some supplies at a house where a man was confined to his wheelchair. His sister was his caretaker and she was stompng around, thoroughly pissed off.
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They’d just paid $35,000 for this high tech wheelchair – more twice as much as her car! (And they seemed to be of modest means.)
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Not reading the instructions before trying it out, he’d reversed it through a wall. (Lucky for him, it had a head rest thing, so he was unscathed.)
I’d arrived just as the woman and her husband were flipping out at the site of the “two bed room” apartment now being a “one bedroom apartment” with one really, really big bedroom.
You know when Wile E. Coyote runs into something and the hole he leaves is in the perfect shape of Wile E.? That’s what it looked like. There was a perfect outline of the head and arm rests.
One evening I was visiting a hospital and I witnessed a group of about eight people getting out of a car and heading toward the emergency room. They had several buckets of Kentucky Fried Chicken and a couple of 12-packs of Coke.
Note, Davebear, wheelchairs enable people to get out and about when they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to at all. It’s hardly confining. It’s the opposite!
And while I don’t use one full-time, I have problems with distances and when going places which will involve a lot of walking I often rent or borrow one – this afternoon I’m going to the aquarium, and we’re going to get me a chair so I can enjoy the fishes without being in pain.
Just so ya know.
Eh, crap, I meant “fishies,” not “fishes,” which I’m not entirely sure is a word.