# (Old) Day Trips planned in the MMP **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Tags:** mmp\ **Created:** [July 10, 2023, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-day-trips-planned-in-the-mmp/986853 "2023-07-10T10:32:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 340
**Author:** ![Bob\_Blaylock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bob_blaylock/32/3235_2.png) [@Bob\_Blaylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bob_Blaylock)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2023, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-day-trips-planned-in-the-mmp/986853/340 "2023-07-23T18:25:13Z")
  When I broke my leg, they gave me a walker before I left the hospital.   After a couple weeks, I was ready to graduate to a cane. They said it was going to take at least a couple weeks to process all the crap to approve one for me.  So instead, I found a very fine four-point cane at the first thrift store where I looked, for about three or four dollars. If I needed a walker, there were plenty of those, there, for a similar price.   The real prize, for me, in mobility devices, was almost a year later.  I was working in a thrift store (through some program where I was given light-duty work for a charity, while being paid by my regular employer as if I was doing my usual construction work) and a couple of knee scooters came in.  This was at a time when the original fix to my broken leg was failing, and I was preparing for surgery to repair it.  The better of the two knee scooters was a [Knee Rover All Terrain](https://kneerover.com/collections/all-terrain-series/products/all-terrain-kneerover-in-blue), which got priced at $25.  MSRP on this model, new, is about $400.  With my 30% discount for working there, that $25 became $17.50.   Alas, for the great deal that I got on it, I didn’t really get to use it much.  That was actually my last day working before the surgery, and by the time I returned to work two weeks later I had recovered enough not to need it, or even a cane.   I think my only use of it to go anywhere away from home was to a medical appointment, where the doctor, on hearing what I had paid for it, expressed amazement at the deal that I had got.  I hadn’t really thought much about what it was likely to cost new, until that meeting, and it was after that that I tracked down the manufacturer’s web site, and looked it up there.  A $400 knee scooter, and I paid less than 1⁄20 of that for it.   Thrift stores can be really neat that way.  That isn’t even the best deal I got from that particular store, during the time I was working there.  That would probably be my [Haix Airpower XR1 boots](https://www.haixusa.com/haix-airpower-xr1) for $7. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/old-day-trips-planned-in-the-mmp/986853)._