A rather portly Hispanic lady standing at a bus stop waiting to board the next bus. I was in my power wheelchair going downtown.

I have a small basket hanging on the back, about one foot cube. When I approached the lady she said, �How about giving me a ride so I don�t have to wait on the bus?�

This lady looked as if she had a good sense of humor, so I said, �Sure. Just hop in the basket on the back. But you have to sit down. I would not want you to fall out and get a boo-boo.�

The lady totally lost control. She was laughing so hard she could hardly stand. Her entire body was shaking like a dog shaking off water. No two parts were going the same way at the same time.

After a while she got herself together enough to blurt out, �That�s the funniest thing I ever heard!� After several more burst of laughter she said, �To hell with the bus. I�m going home and tell my husband about this!� She turned and walked, or perhaps I should say, waddled, down the street, still laughing like a lion after eating a Christian.

Watching her really made my day, although I did not know if it upset hers or not.

But that was not the end of the story.

A week or so later I was down town in the power wheelchair and someone said, �Are you still giving rides?� I turned and saw the same lady with a friend. She was laughing and, in Spanish, started telling the other lady what the joke was. Several times she stopped because she was laughing so hard. Finally she got it out and the other lady laughed and said, in a heavy Spanish tongue, �It�s good!�

Well, that�s twice that chubby lady made my day!

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