It bugs me too... I know of people who have just paid and gotten them with no medical condition or need at all. Good old, raw capitalism rearing its head again.
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Confession time: my mom has her application but has not turned it in yet and I've just put in my request, but my mom and I have been using my dad's since she's gone downhill and I've had my own issues. I convinced her to turn hers in this morning. Before her decline, we never used it, even when I was on crutches.
This new broken foot thing, though, has me needing to be as close to entrances as possible when I'm not with my mom. Today, I ended up needing to abandon her in a store and I went and sat out front until she emerged. My limit had been reached.
I used an electric scooter cart in a grocery store for the first time recently. I stared at them when I walked into the store and one of the clerks saw me and my crutches. She offered to hold my crutches behind the counter while I shopped, but if I use one of those things again, I assure you I'll be taking my crutches with me. The looks I got from most people...eek.
This new broken foot thing, though, has me needing to be as close to entrances as possible when I'm not with my mom. Today, I ended up needing to abandon her in a store and I went and sat out front until she emerged. My limit had been reached.
I used an electric scooter cart in a grocery store for the first time recently. I stared at them when I walked into the store and one of the clerks saw me and my crutches. She offered to hold my crutches behind the counter while I shopped, but if I use one of those things again, I assure you I'll be taking my crutches with me. The looks I got from most people...eek.
Sorry to be that person, but did you know the "boatloads" of people well?
Lot of people don't have any visible disabilities and/or any issues. They may look healthy and able when they aren't and have some kind of unseen handicap.
I once worked with a woman that relied on a walking stick to get around. Her every step was a feat of indomitable human spirit and determination and the cost in pain was writ upon her face. But if she had a train to catch, she could outpace Zola Budd.
True story.
True story.
Boatloads was an exaggeration I admit. I have known several people with them who absolutely didn't need them. I certainly do not think that everyone with a tag is working the system .
You know how sometimes you'll pick up some salt from the supermarket and the packaging says "This salt does not supply iodide, a necessary nutrient"?
Well, if iodide is so fucking necessary, then why doesn't the salt supply it? And why would you want to buy salt that doesn't?
Well, if iodide is so fucking necessary, then why doesn't the salt supply it? And why would you want to buy salt that doesn't?
A friend of mine got a wire stuck in his mouth while eating something he grilled on his outdoor barbecue grill. That wire came from the wire brush he used to clean his grill. Soooo, use wire brushes to clean your grill (or anything really) at your own peril. His doctor told him that he was luckier than some because the wire stayed in his mouth and didn't head farther south where it could result in scary surgery.
You know how sometimes you'll pick up some salt from the supermarket and the packaging says "This salt does not supply iodide, a necessary nutrient"?
Well, if iodide is so fucking necessary, then why doesn't the salt supply it? And why would you want to buy salt that doesn't?
Salt has to have the iodine added in, it doesn’t naturally come that way.
You typically want non-iodized salt for pickling and canning, since iodized salt can discolour your food.
I've heard of this happening for a few years now but never so close as someone that knows someone I interact with on the Internet. I was beginning to wonder if it was a new marketing scare tactic or if it was real, and if it is, people have been using wire brushes to clean their grills for...well, forever. I'm not sure if it's our cleaning habits or if wire brushes are being made differently or from different materials now, but it would seem something has changed. Or...I wonder if people have been getting mystery illnesses forever and we've recently figured out that it was the cleaning brushes for grills.
Work: “Hey, we’re thinking of moving your seat away from the annoying person into a room filled with fun people to talk to. What do you think?”
Me: (Okay, act like this is a 50/50 proposition). Sure, why not? I guess it makes sense.
Me: (Okay, act like this is a 50/50 proposition). Sure, why not? I guess it makes sense.
I often wonder how things started. Like for example, the first person to roast meat! Just imagine up until that moment every one ate their meat raw or (more likely) gamy and that guy/gal has the idea: "Why not try to roast it on the fire here?!!" It must have been something!
Starving humans who see a moving creature are gonna try it. 
I wonder if cooking was a health development or if someone just realized it tasted good that way.
The thing about the poisons in our food is most of them are in super trace amounts, not enough to kill a healthy person but enough to make them feel crappy all the time and gradually do damage to their organs at a rate the body can heal as long as it’s otherwise healthy.
I tend to get less worried about stuff added into food and more about the stuff artificially removed.
I wonder if cooking was a health development or if someone just realized it tasted good that way.
The thing about the poisons in our food is most of them are in super trace amounts, not enough to kill a healthy person but enough to make them feel crappy all the time and gradually do damage to their organs at a rate the body can heal as long as it’s otherwise healthy.
I tend to get less worried about stuff added into food and more about the stuff artificially removed.
So I'm sitting here watching a spring training baseball game (Phillies/Yankees) and my iPad spontaneously fires up. Siri was actually reacting to the broadcast and talking back to it! 
People under siege will try anything before they starve to death. Many big cities in France have been under siege for a long time and that's why we know about everything that's edible and about how to cook it.
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