Mar 25, 2012

Interesting and Different....

What is so brilliant about the gadgets is their simplicity...
When you have confidence, you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun, you can do amazing things....

Today as Arvid and I were waiting for a parking spot at one of our favorite restaurants along came a father and son all done with their meal and ready to pull out from their space.  The son was the driver and he told us, "just give me a few minutes and we'll be right out of here".  We were happy since the entire parking lot was full and we had been waiting on a couple who seemed like they were leaving but 10 minutes after they were still sitting in their car texting on their phones.

The father and son team was really nice, only thing is that the son was in a wheelchair.  Not a problem, except we thought we would be waiting another 10+ minutes for them to actually manage to pull out.  By now we were extremely hungry and our only concern was how soon can we park so that we could finally get to the restaurant and order our meal.



To our surprise the son wheeled himself into the car, pulled himself onto the seat and with not so much as a hitch he pulled the back out of the wheelchair, stored it in the back seat, and the surprise is what we saw next. At the top of the car was something that looked like a little storage/luggage rack. Well the son pressed a button and this thing opened up and with something similar to arms it stretched down to what was left of the wheelchair pulled it up and stored it into this so caller camper looking thing. See for yourself.


We were both amazed.  This entire process took less than 5 minutes and before we knew it we were parking into the space just vacated.  Sometimes we see and we judge too fast without really knowing all the facts.  Even though this young man was in a wheel chair he did everything at a much faster speed and with such a pleasant disposition.  The fact that he was in a wheelchair and someone was waiting for him to pull out of his spot did not faze him.  He was cheerful, happy and with a personality that said I can do anything I set my mind to.  So unlike the other couple who were still sitting in their car texting and looking pretty grim and sulky.

The happiest people don't necessarily have the best of everything. They just make the best of everything... 


~Nadiya~