1. I meant that to be off-list, but it wasn't, so the brain/finger
interface was not in sync.
2. I took it to mean "watch out for those with handicap tags cuz they
are usually stupid drivers". I don't think that was your intent,
but it seemed to come out that way.
OK, we share the same disease (1949, left leg involvement, have used a
forearm crutch since grade 6... now Titanium but WHERE THE F*#K IS MY
OM-3T to match!?!) but have not PPS to speak of. So, I truly, truly
understand where you're coming from in terms of current limitations,
denial (most of us are type-A as a result of polio), etc.
What I think this really means is that me and Walt (southern for Walt
and I) need to meet up, have a few libations and find photo subjects
that are closer than 500 yards/meters.
I find more bad drivers who are mentally handicapped with no tag than
otherwise.
Earl
Walt Wayman wrote:
>Okay, Earl:
>
>Offends you why?
>
>At the age of 11, in 1952, I had what we called back in the dark ages
>"infantile paralysis," some three or four years before Dr. Salk came up with
>the vaccine. I wore braces for two years, then, like Forrest Gump, was too
>damn dumb to know I was crippled and even managed to wrangle an athletic
>scholarship (baseball), not to some podunk junior college, but to an NCAA
>Division 1 school, the University of Tennessee. I didn't play much, but what
>the hell.
>
>A few years after I graduated in 1962, I did 23 months in Vietnam as a
>television news photographer, most of the time right up front with the grunts,
>staring at Charley. The second helicopter crash sent me home way more
>buggered up than I was when I went over.
>
>To make a long story short, like this one ought to be: Weston's 500-yard limit
>became mine when it got to be more and more obvious that that's about as far
>as I can haul my increasingly creaky old ass these days. There's that
>post-polio thing, you know, and it's beginning to make some of my days stay at
>home, sit on my butt and aggravate people on line time. At least my fingers
>still work, which may not be appreciated by some, but my mouth is even harder
>to deal with because it's faster than my fingers. :-)
>
>Sorry if I touched a nerve.
>
>Walt, the gimp in denial
>
>--
>"Anything more than 500 yards from
>the car just isn't photogenic." --
>Edward Weston
>
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
>From: Earl Dunbar <edunbar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>
>>OK, that offends me.
>>
>>Walt Wayman wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>I often suspect as much, so I give these folks a wide berth (although I
>>>qualify
>>>
>>>
>>for a cripple tag myself; I'm must not ready to advertise my infirmities
>>yet).
>>And I steer clear of rental trucks, too, which are frequently driven by
>>numbnuts
>>who until an hour ago may never have aimed anything bigger than a Volkswagen.
>>
>>
>>>One-legged moron driving a U-Haul while yakking on a cell phone hits me --
>>>
>>>
>>that's why we have guns around here. Sometimes the herd just has to be
>>thinned.
>>
>>
>>>Walt
>>>
>>>--
>>>"Anything more than 500 yards from
>>>the car just isn't photogenic." --
>>>Edward Weston
>>>
>>>-------------- Original message ----------------------
>>>From: <bs.pearce@xxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>Oh, and she had a handicapped tag.
>>>>
>>>>Cause and effect?
>>>>
>>>>
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