At times I can be a real heel. I offer this story.

One of the most dangerous places to be riding a wheelchair is down the sidewalk past parking lot driveways. (Walking, bicycles, baby strollers there is in danger, too.) Seems that people leaving the parking area looks down the street for a hole in traffic to get into and they don�t look at what is on the sidewalk. Twice I�ve been tagged in such places, and dozens of times I�ve had to take evasive action.

So one day I was cruising down a sidewalk past a shopping center. I approached an exit driveway. I looked closely for anything moving and saw a bright red, new, Mustang pull out some distance from me, heading for the exit. I thought I had plenty of time so I started across.

I realized that the red car was coming very fast so I stopped just short of the center of the exit. The car came right in front of me and stopped with it�s front wheels in the gutter. The young lady driving was, as usual, looking down the street for traffic.

I was all of about four feet from her face and her window was open. She suddenly noticed me and said, �Oh, were you going past here?� (And she was not even blond!)

Before I had time to think I said, �Where the hell did you think I was going, UP?�

I then started laughing at the extreme shock on that girl�s face. She looked as if someone had slapped her with a dirty rag.

There is a bus stop alongside the exit and a guy who looked like a bum was there. He saw and heard the entire thing, and he started laughing so hard he was bending over.

The girl then started to back up. I said, �Oh, no maam. You are over half way through so by all means, go on. I�m not going in front of you anyway.� She did, but I noticed she was not in nearly such a big hurry.

I started to move on when the bum guy said, �Did you see her face? She looked like someone had throwed cow manure on her!�

Then I cracked up!!!