What’s Wrong with Using a Power Chair?

Power Chairs. You’ve seen them on TV. The old lady who receives her new power chair doing wheelies in her kitchen, she’s doing her parade wave as she spins slowly around and smiling.

You’ve probably also have seen the power chair gang commercial where everyone outside (where ever they are) are riding in their power chairs. Yes, okay that one is a little un-nerving. But what’s wrong with having one or just using one in Wal-Mart?

I’ve seen plenty of people tooling around in Stop N Shop using them. Okay so you think when you see the extremely overweight person using the power chair that if they just got up and walked, they’d be in better shape and maybe wouldn’t need a power chair. Let’s assume they have other issues.

The power chair is fast becoming a symbol of, well, POWER! Imagine: you tool around your house in your power chair, get in your car and drive to the store, where you get yourself loaded into the stores powered carriage and do your power shopping.

Think about, don’t you give the right of way in the aisle to a power chair person? Of course, it’s polite. So you’re doing your power chair shopping, you are relaxed, you cash out, back in your car, get back home, and back into your private power chair – and you haven’t even broke a sweat!

Man…what a life. I want one!

For the younger crowd. Seriously my town, East Hampton, Connecticut, has just opened a new store. Are you ready for this? It’s called: Scooter-town. This townie went out and purchased fifteen to twenty scooters, (similar to a Vesper, but smaller) and sells them. You drive by the store and they are all line up on the grass, all different colors. There are colorful flags stuck in the grass...It’s something to see. The sad part of this is he isn’t what you would call a ‘healthy man’ – he is rather large and it’s a visual struggle to watch him riding one of the scooters around town at 10MPH. Not a good advertisement. No, it’s not. I bet the old lady in her power chair could beat him going uphill while doing wheelies and waving.

I might suggest to him to add a new line of power chairs.