International I Hate Sports Club

OK, as some of you all know, back in the summer of 2009, I got my new JAZZY 614 HD power chair that I use to get around when I go out to do my shopping or taking care of business.



I need it because I have arthritis in both knees and both ankles.

When I get on the bus, a folding ramp drops down so I can get into a bus, and then the bus driver attaches 4 restraining straps on the floor to the power chair so that it doesn't move around when the bus is in motion. Each bus can accommodate 2 wheelchair passengers.

Well, when I got my new JAZZY over a year ago, I had to go to the Sun Metro office at the Amtrak Railroad Depot to get 4 nylon straps installed so that it would be much easier for the bus drivers to hook up the restraining straps to my power chair instead of trying to hook them up to the framework of my power chair.

Anyway . . . . things do wear out, and for the past couple of weeks some of the bus drivers told me that I needed to get some new straps because they were not able to take up the slack properly and then a few days ago, one of the straps was missing.

So, yesterday (Tuesday October 12) I went out at 12:30 in the afternoon to the Sun Metro office to get new straps and to replace the one that was missing. But they only had 4 straps left and they were being installed on another man's power chair. They didn't have any more so they had to place an order for some more but they would be available until after the 25th of the month, so I would have to wait 2 weeks.

Well, I didn't want to wait that long. I needed to go to Walmart to do some grocery shopping, and there is a Home Depot hardware store there, so, I decided to see if the Home Depot might have some nylon straps.

Sure enough, they had a package of 4 straps for $10 dollars. They are not the same as the one Sun Metro installed last year. These straps had black metal hooks on them but I figured they should work just as well.

After I paid for them, I asked if they could install them for me, but at first I was told that they could not do that, so I explained that I would have to get down on the floor to install them myself because it's hard for me to bend over, and I'm not able to get back on my feet without assistance.

Well, one of the employees, a really nice lady said she would get someone to install the straps, so one of the guys came over with a cutting tool, one of those with the retractable blade as sharp as a razor so that he could cut the old straps off.

I was sitting in my JAZZY as he cut off the old straps from the back to install the new ones.

OK, so far, so good.

Then as he was cutting off the right front strap, he slipped, and I felt the blade cut into my lower right leg a few inches above the ankle, and it HURT LIKE HELL!!!

I started bleeding like a butcher, and someone brought over a container of those sterile moist paper towels which I applied to the open wound to clean up the blood oozing down my leg!

Then I told them to get me a chair to sit on so I can be a safe distance away while the moron was cutting off the left front strap. When I got up from my JAZZY to sit in the other chair, I looked down and saw a round pool of my own blood, a round pool about 6 to 7 inches across, and there must have been some more blood on the floor because as I sat down in the other chair, I left some bloody footprints on the floor!

I have really thin blood. When I'm cut, it takes much longer for my blood to clot. No, I don't take any anticoagulants. I just naturally have thin blood. I have read somewhere that Type O blood is thinner than most of the other blood types. Imagine that! A fat man with thin blood!

Then someone came and brought a First Aid kit and wrapped some gauze around my leg and applied some tape to hold the gauze in place while another person was cleaning up the blood from the floor.

Well, the 4 new nylon straps were finally installed, but I was really pissed off, and I threatened to sue them all. The young lady took down my name and address and phone number, because she said that they would have to call their insurance company.

Then I told them, that because of what they had put me through, that I felt that I really didn't have to pay for those straps, that I should get my money refunded back to me, and that I was going to have to see my doctor to find out that if I might need to get a tetanus shot, because I might get an infection. There is no telling where that blade might had been before it cut my leg.

Well, the lady was nice enough to refund my $10 dollars back to me, and I could keep the new straps on my JAZZY, so I got 4 new straps for free.

I don't know why that idiot couldn't have used a pair of heavy duty shears to cut off the old straps instead of a blade. Nah! To complicated for a moron! Shears have too many moving parts, like two! DUH! He probably stayed up one night trying to figure out how to put a two-piece jigsaw puzzle together!

Anyway . . .

I was in shock, and felt kind of weak and dizzy, and one of the other guys brought me a Coke that I didn't have to pay for either, which was nice of him.

When I started feeling better, I left the Home Depot with 4 new straps on my JAZZY.

Well, since I was there to shop at Walmart, I went there to get a some groceries. I have a large blue zipper bag mounted on the back of the seat which I call my "Tucker Bag" an Australian term for a bag for carrying food (tucker) and of course I nicked-named my JAZZY "Matilda" last year when I got my big blue Tucker Bag which holds up to 50 pounds of groceries.

Anyway, I got some groceries, and I bought myself a 12 pack of Shiner Bohemian Black Lager Beer, because I felt I deserved a special treat after all the BLOODY MAYHEM I and just been through.

Then I got on the bus. The bus driver noticed that my new nylon straps were not Sun Metro issue, but then, he said that these new straps were actually much better than Sun Metro issue.

My nest stop was the Walgreens Pharmacy because I needed to pick up a new prescription that I had called in earlier that morning, and I bought myself another treat, 6 While Owl Peach Flavored Cigars, then I went to see my doctor, and she said the I need to go into the emergency room at a hospital.

So, I went across the street to Providence Hospital.

It was about 4:30 PM, and I was given a tetanus shot, and I had to wait a few of hours before someone finally came in and applied some new gauze to my leg. I have a cut on the side of my lower right leg. The open wound was over an inch long. I was also given a prescription for some antibiotics, and I signed some papers after I explained to them how I got that wound on my leg at Home Depot.

I didn't get home until after 8:30 PM and I came home in the dark.

This all happened yesterday. (Tuesday October 12)

Well, this morning, I got a phone call. It was from the insurance adjuster for Home Depot.

I'll be receiving some papers to sign in the mail which I can FAX back to them. I have my own FAX machine, but since it needs new ink cartridges, I can't receive a FAX, but only send a FAX.

After all this is taken care of, I will be getting a check for $250 dollars in the mail.

Now, I'm thinking of filing some kind of criminal negligence charges against Sun Metro.

We have many citizens here in El Paso who get around in power chairs, and who ride the city buses, and they all need those little nylon straps installed on their power chairs, and Sun Metro should always keep a ready supply of them.

But, by not having any available for my JAZZY, they placed my life in danger, because I had to go to Home Depot, a hardware store, to get the straps I needed, only to get butchered by some low IQ moron wielding a blade!

I sincerely hope that The Sun City Slasher over at Home Depot gets his ass canned so that he'll have to stand on a street corner flying a cardboard sign and panhandling for food!

Retarded morons should not be allowed to handle sharp tools!

What? It sounds like a common problem which went horribly wrong by a freak accident. Yes that's awful that you got cut and I'll admit I'm pretty squeamish at the sight of blood, but suing them? You really think that will solve anything? They simply ran out of cords and had to get replacements. At each place you received your services you were either refunded or treated better than most people would have been treated. It sounds as if you had an unfortunate set of circumstances, were compensated, and now you're just trying to make a buck out of it by seeing how far you can ride the gravy train, so to speak.

Jerry McGuire wrote:What? It sounds like a common problem which went horribly wrong by a freak accident. Yes that's awful that you got cut and I'll admit I'm pretty squeamish at the sight of blood, but suing them? You really think that will solve anything? They simply ran out of cords and had to get replacements. At each place you received your services you were either refunded or treated better than most people would have been treated. It sounds as if you had an unfortunate set of circumstances, were compensated, and now you're just trying to make a buck out of it by seeing how far you can ride the gravy train, so to speak.

HEY JIMBO BUBBAH BOOEY!!!

Football players have been riding the gravy train for decades now, getting free cars, getting paid millions of dollars every year just for chasing a ball, getting away with rape, and the quality of education in our schools has been on the decline because of sports.

I think after having been bullied around by jocks in my school, having been denied a decent education, having been beaten and raped when I was 17 years old, I think I'm entitled to some gravy!

I'm not asking for a million dollars!

Only compensation for my injuries!

SO, FUCK OFF!!

I don't understand your problem with me. I've never been rude to you.

It was an accident, and the people at Walmart bandaged you up and even gave you a refund when technically they didn't need to seeing as how the transaction had already passed. They seemed legitimately sorry. It seems like you were compensated for your injuries, unless your injury forced you to miss time from work. Plus, all that has nothing to do with the county being "negligent". To be negligent, they would have to had known you would be placed in danger by having a low reserve of strips. (The main reason why my username is "Jerry McGuire" is that in the movie, he plays a sports agent, which is a kind of lawyer, and I'm going to law school soon!)

Jerry McGuire wrote:I don't understand your problem with me. I've never been rude to you.

It was an accident, and the people at Walmart bandaged you up and even gave you a refund when technically they didn't need to seeing as how the transaction had already passed. They seemed legitimately sorry. It seems like you were compensated for your injuries, unless your injury forced you to miss time from work. Plus, all that has nothing to do with the county being "negligent". To be negligent, they would have to had known you would be placed in danger by having a low reserve of strips. (The main reason why my username is "Jerry McGuire" is that in the movie, he plays a sports agent, which is a kind of lawyer, and I'm going to law school soon!)

It was Home Depot where I got my leg slashed.

It was Walmart where I did some grocery shopping after leaving Home Depot with a bandaged leg, then I went to Walgreens to pick up a prescription I had called in earlier that morning, and from there I went to the emergency room at Providence Hospital and got a tetanus shot and a prescription for some antibiotics.

I'm diabetic, so I have to be careful about not getting any infections.

I lucked out. My leg is healing quite well, but it could have been a lot worse.

Sorry, but they were careless, and negligent, so I feel that getting a check for a mere $250 dollars is just compensation. It was rather traumatic seeing all that blood, my blood, all over the floor.

It's not like I was suing for a million dollars! OK?

A check for $250 dollars is just chicken feed, mere chump change!

Why aren't you bitching about some moron who's IQ is exceeded by his shoe size who can't read beyond the second grade level getting a free Hummer and millions of dollars just for chasing a ball?

But NNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

You have to jump on my fat ass because I'm getting a lousy $250 dollars after some idiot slashed my lower right leg.

Oh! And speaking of lawyers . . . . .

Have you heard about the latest postage stamps coming out now featuring pictures of lawyers?

There is a problem with the new stamps.

People can't figure out which side to spit on!!!

OK everybody!

Here's an update.

Yesterday I went out to do some shopping as usual, then when I came home I checked my mail box in the lobby and sure enough, I got my compensation check for $250 dollars from the Home Depot's insurance adjuster.

Then I took the elevator up to my 6th floor apartment, put my groceries away, and then, went out on my JAZZY power chair to the bank which was about 7 blocks away. I cashed my check, then on the way home I stopped at an All You Can Eat Buffet to celebrate, then I came home.

This morning when I got up, I called the lady at the office for the insurance adjuster to thank her very much for the check, and that it came in the mail much sooner than she said it would. She sounded very nice. I'm so glad the Home Depot was honest enough to admit that they screwed up. But I'm still not going to go shopping there again, not until they fire the Sun City Slasher.

Anyway . . . . .

Now thanks for the compensation check, I can make some up-grades on my computer. So today I have been making some phone calls inquiring about prices.

Right now I'm running Windows XP Professional and I have two hard drives, my Master C: Drive on which Windows is installed, and of course, the new 400 gigabyte D: Drive which is my Slave that I had bought earlier this year. My computer has a 2.66 gigahertz CPU but it only has 512 megabytes of RAM.

The C: Drive is only 40 gigabytes, but it's an old hard drive so my computer has been running kind of slow lately, and it also needs more RAM.

I need to get my own copy of Windows to re-install, but since nobody sells Windows XP anymore I will be going over to the new Windows 7 Professional which will only cost me about $160 dollars, and a new 160 gigabyte hard drive for only about $40 dollars. Of course, a brand new 40 or 60 or 80 gigabyte hard drive is good enough for the C: Drive because I only install windows on it, plus the AVG Anti-virus and a couple of other programs.

Otherwise, everything else, I install in the Program Files folder I created on my D: Drive. So, with a new hard drive to install the new Window 7, and adding another 512 megabytes of RAM for a total of 1024 megabytes, I will have a full gigabyte of RAM. Then my computer should run much faster.

So, tomorrow I'll be going out to get the stuff I need for my computer, and when I come home I will open up the case, take out the old hard drive and put in the new one, install the extra RAM, then close the patient and install my new Windows 7 on my computer.

Yeah! I work on my computer by myself. It's much cheaper to buy the parts and put them in yourself. I'm a real computer geek!

I'll probably be up all night installing my favorite programs, for example: my Train Simulator program which is just like operating a real train. Whooooooo! Whooooooo! The first of nine CD disks is the Microsoft Train Simulator, then I will add the Regional Add-On Pack for USA and Canada Railroads, Pro Train 1 and Pro Train 2, German Railroads Volume 1 and German Railroads Volume 2, High Speed Trains, The Heidi Express, and the Scenic Railway. Right now, my computer is too slow to run those programs, but with the upgrades I'll be doing tomorrow, my computer should be much faster.

I'm so glad I know how to work on my computer myself instead of paying somebody else to do it for me. When I was a kid, my favorite toys were construction toys, things I could take apart and put together again, along with having a telescope and a microscope, and lots of books. Sorry sports fans! But I had no balls or bats, or retard toys like that!

Anyway . . . . .

Tomorrow I'll be having some fun!

And by the way, in response to Jerry McGuire . . .

Jerry McGuire wrote:It sounds as if you had an unfortunate set of circumstances, were compensated, and now you're just trying to make a buck out of it by seeing how far you can ride the gravy train, so to speak.

Yeah! From now on, when people do me any harm, they're gonna pay for it!

And besides, a lousy little $250 dollar compensation check is mere chump change! It's not like I was going to sue for a million dollars or something. You got that? JIMBO!!!

Why aren't you bitching about some drooling moron who gets paid millions of dollars just for kicking a football, and getting a brand new car for FREE after he's raped someone's daughter?

After having my head bashed against a brick wall by a teacher who didn't want me checking out Astronomy books from the school library, and suffering headaches and dizzy spells during my teenage years, and having been beaten and raped when I was 17 years old . . .

. . . well . . . I think I'm entitled to a little bit of gravy.

So, you may . . . . .

SHOVE IT UP YOUR ASS, PULL IT OUT AGAIN, AND SUCK ON IT!!!

You got that? JIMBO!!!