# I Am Getting A Wheelchair **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 29, 2012, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110 "2012-03-29T01:45:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/61 "2012-04-02T00:34:56Z")
You could dress up as a nun and go as Virgin Mobile. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/62 "2012-04-02T01:31:17Z")
Or not wear any pants and tell people “I’m the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile.”. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/63 "2012-04-02T01:35:28Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > Or not wear any pants and tell people “I’m the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile.”. > > 😃 Doable but may be misinterpreted at children’s parties. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/64 "2012-04-02T02:51:34Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Doable but may be misinterpreted at children’s parties. Ah. True. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/65 "2012-04-02T17:51:08Z")
I want a power chair so I can make it into a [sedan chair](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litter_%28vehicle%29) … with long fringes to hide the base and wheels. It would make the job of the ‘slaves’ carrying the chair much easier. Or I suppose I could make a couple of dummy ‘carriers’ to mount on the front and back handles. 😃 [My SCA persona is roman, and would use a reclining litter rather than a sedan chair proper, though my secondary one is an Elizabethan woman, and she would use a sedan chair. My shu-nu-shi is a horse riding nomad, so I wouldn’t use a chair of any sort there.] For Fantasy/SF purposes, I could make a big almost transparent bubble and go as a [haut](http://fyreflybooks.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/lois-mcmaster-bujold-cetaganda/) woman in her force bubble enclosed float chair … ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/66 "2012-04-02T18:58:35Z")
I’m also thinking of a Dr. Who costume, with a big foam-core TARDIS over my chair to ride around in. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/67 "2012-04-02T19:10:43Z")
Instead of Davros, Daleks or Tardis, why not go for that rolling companion, K-9? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/68 "2012-04-02T19:28:13Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Instead of Davros, Daleks or Tardis, why not go for that rolling companion, K-9? No thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/69 "2012-04-02T20:51:19Z")
I’m sorry your condition has worsened, **BMalion**. Is your MS relapsing-remitting or chronic-progressive? My SiL has C-P MS and has been in a wheelchair for about 12 years now, but has a pretty active life. She lives with her sister’s family which includes four kids, and is also over at our house (2 more kids) pretty often. I’m gonna suggest some of these costumes to her, maybe she’ll let us take her out next Halloween! ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/70 "2012-04-02T21:07:15Z")
Chronic-progressive. ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2012, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/71 "2012-04-02T21:43:36Z")
I’m sorry, that’s a bitch. I hope it progresses slowly for you and that your new chair makes it a bit easier to get around. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2012, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110/72 "2012-04-03T01:10:42Z")
Thank you. Everyone has been so kind, I appreciate you putting up with my nonsense. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-am-getting-a-wheelchair/617110.md?page=3)