Dear friends here is Anthony_S1 the old man from Australia. I didn't have the luck to introduce myself few weeks ago, and soon after something happened to me, well first I like with permission of the director of the company, to say thankyou to Nicolette, CAlfredo,,and all the others that gave me a warm welcome, thank you. I'm going to tell you what happened ! [ In brief..... ]
My nephew invite me to go shopping with him, reluctantelly I accepted the invitation, so he loaded the wheelchair in the s/wagon and we went to a big shopping center, once arrived politile he unloaded the wheelchair, I sat on and after covering my legs with a blankett he start pushing me as he did many times over, he wheeled me around, and from time to time he entered shops living me outside for few minutes, I was enjoing looking the windows and people passing by, then he said to me, uncle Tony now we go down to level 2 and then we go home, I reply, it was OK with me, so he start pushing me to the escalator, [mind you, NOT the one with the steps] the one that is like a conveyer belt ,where you can put the shopping trolley, few people seeing me on the wheelchair let us pass and once on it, my nephew pulled the handbrake and we started going down, in front of us was nobody,
soon after I sensed that my wheelchair was moving; going down faster then the escalator, increasing speed all the time, as soon people took notice of what was happening: they start screaming and everybody turned back to see what the heck was going on.
It was in a flash, but on the other side looked like an eternity, faster then a computer I was doing my home work," what should I do", try to grab the outer wheel, and try to brake, ah no, your hands will burn, and your fingers can be caught in the wheel spikes, also trying to brake at that speed I will be catapulted, so I decided to stay hold, I was thinking of the song< che sara' sara'> what will be will be, in 87 years I never rebember saying the " Holy Mary"so fast in a record time, those 75 meters ,looked like kilometers, the people was so nice, they didn't attempt to stop the ride, was to dangerous to be involved in stopping the wheelchair, in front of me at the end of the escalator, there was a <Man boutique>with 2 large glass windows and a large entrance door in the middle, you can immagine what passed in my mind, "what if I go straight into the windows" luck enough with divine providence the wheelchair keept going straight on course, it didn't alter the trigonometric function, thanks to God people kept jumping out of my path, I felt in that istant to be a skier, or a ciclist at the TOUR de FRANCE, all those people clapping hands as I went trough, past them.
My GOD in front of me... getting close and close the " man boutique", I remember my lips frenetically, moving so fast, may be saying the "Holy Mary" the second time, I estimated the speed at 20 to 24 mph, I entered the boutique with such velocity that I knocked down a stand with suites, pushed another with pants and socks, rumbled down 3 mannequins [mannikins] coming to a stop in front of a chromed steel revolving stand where there was more than 100 ties, the young sales lady caught by surprise, and
[ unwittingly ] not knowing what happened, confused jumping on that mess, slowly came toward me, there I was, still grasping
a bundle of ties with my right hand, to my surprise she said politely: You could have asked me for help!!!
May I Help you Sir? Looking at her, into her eyes softly releasing the bundle of ties from my hand, and holding one, I replied:
I"ll Take This One................Thank You
I was so lucky ,to go for a ride of that kind, will I be so lucky next time?
P.S. Alfredo and a lot of you, please I need you help, as you know I'm a newbie, I do NOT understand, Ireceived an e/mail from GDI that explain my website as been done; but i need a TFP so I can have it hosted, does GDI host the website for us, I"m a member long time but I do NOT kow of the steps that I have to take ,so I cansponsor others, PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GOD BLESS YOU ALL. Anthony
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