Oh cool I thought it was just me…. the trick is to maintain a forward view while briskly walking around them. Make it look like you didn’t even notice their disability, and are therefore treating them with the same respect you treat all slow walkers.
When it comes to a fire, need outweighs comfort. So you can push them out like you are having a shopping cart race. Then they will be ahead of you AND you will be moving fast.
I think they should have a little foot-rest type thingy on the back of wheelchairs for the pusher, so you could get up a good head of steam and then jump on and ride like when you’re on a shopping cart!
And seriously…if you’re in a fire with someone in a wheelchair it’s kind of a DB move to just pass them up. No matter how slowly.
And “Ben Hur the Wheelchair Version” would be an awesome movie!
And lastly, even though it’s already been commented on . . . Yes, the flaming antenna is magnificently cool!
I use a manual wheelchair and most days. on smooth level ground, you would have to trot to keep up with me! I find it easier to go fast than I do to go at a walking pace. At the VA hospital people are always telling me I’m gonna get a ticket zooming down the halls on my way to my Dr appointments.
They won’t be faster with a broom in their spokes.
PS. The better way is to tip the handicapped person out of their wheelchair. You’ll easily roll faster than they can arm-drag their body, you won’t feel bad for passing a wheelchair-bound person, and it is the easiest way to find an unused wheelchair.
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Oh cool I thought it was just me…. the trick is to maintain a forward view while briskly walking around them. Make it look like you didn’t even notice their disability, and are therefore treating them with the same respect you treat all slow walkers.
Love the Antennae on fire BTW.
It’s the little details that make this strip so addictive and enjoyable. Flaming antennae FTW!!!
Yaaasssss!
When it comes to a fire, need outweighs comfort. So you can push them out like you are having a shopping cart race. Then they will be ahead of you AND you will be moving fast.
Aren’t fires like bears? If I outrun the slower person then I’ll be saved?
I think they should have a little foot-rest type thingy on the back of wheelchairs for the pusher, so you could get up a good head of steam and then jump on and ride like when you’re on a shopping cart!
And seriously…if you’re in a fire with someone in a wheelchair it’s kind of a DB move to just pass them up. No matter how slowly.
And “Ben Hur the Wheelchair Version” would be an awesome movie!
And lastly, even though it’s already been commented on . . . Yes, the flaming antenna is magnificently cool!
I feel the need to object. I find the flaming antenna rather hot!
I use a manual wheelchair and most days. on smooth level ground, you would have to trot to keep up with me! I find it easier to go fast than I do to go at a walking pace. At the VA hospital people are always telling me I’m gonna get a ticket zooming down the halls on my way to my Dr appointments.
That’s the thing with the 4th panel: people who’ve been using wheelchairs are going to be a lot better and faster than newbies.
They won’t be faster with a broom in their spokes.
PS. The better way is to tip the handicapped person out of their wheelchair. You’ll easily roll faster than they can arm-drag their body, you won’t feel bad for passing a wheelchair-bound person, and it is the easiest way to find an unused wheelchair.
I believe that if you fight it out Ben-Hur style, Nicole Kidman is contractually bound to appear and scowl at you disapprovingly.
Then we’d need a Charlton Heston & a Steven Boyd bug
I ran a 5k once. The dude in the wheelchair beat me, but I didn’t feel bad about it – he got to coast down the hills.
I used to run past them all the time. Mind, it was when I was volunteering for security at conventions in exchange for free attendance.