Upside-down, too, fittingly. I kept thinking about all the bicycling I do year-round. In everyday life, I usually stop myself from thinking about exactly what even a Nissan Micra or a Suzuki Katana motorcycle could do to me if I ever got into a crash. Sitting behind Spinal Boy was not an everyday-life experience. I am quite fluent in irony, but I realized again that the last thing I want to happen to me, after following and writing about disability issues for 18 years, is to end up disabled myself.
Some ironies are rather too intense.
What a deprived life I've led. Wheeling around the world will evidently do wonders for one's charisma, if Rick is any index. He drives the biggest wheelchair I have ever seen. An aide with a manual oxygen tank and two aides toting midsized trunks on wheels followed him to the stage. The man can work a crowd.