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Originally Posted by Martian
If we can't find humour in such shocking events, we're doomed to be overwhelmed by them.
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Oh please. Should we laugh when your wife nearly dies then? Hey it's funny because you almost lost her but didn't!
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The man had the good fortune to have a wheelchair with a seatbelt (having not been confined to a wheelchair for an extended length of time, I have no idea how common this is),
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Uh, very, especially in power chairs.
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he was unhurt and although there weren't many details about him mentioned it seems that he wasn't traumatized by the event. The absurdity and unlikeliness of it merits a laugh, in my opinion; as Charlatan rightly pointed out, it's almost like something out of a sitcom.
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I'm not saying Brew is entirely correct either - but I understand where he's coming from. You gotta understand that to someone that needs one of those things, those are their legs. They get nervous if you so much as brush up against it because if that thing breaks, they're screwed, especially since a good powerchair can cost over $20,000.
Someone in a chair looking at that story won't see the humor because they'll be thinking "holy shit I cross the street every day, that could be me."
Now what Brew needs to understand is that, just as those who are not in chairs or don't know people in chairs do not understand at ALL what it is to be disabled, likewise people in chairs do not understand at ALL what it is to not understand people in chairs.