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To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (28504)	6/10/1999 3:04:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Me too, dude. All out. All they rent you tempo like is dullsville. Maybe that's a bidness field for us. I hate to admit it, but the idea of zooming around the countryside in one of those, with a mini fridge, really didn't bother me much. I'm an adaptor, you know. Lotsa times I've been on even paved trails looking for a place to sit down. You can even put your feet up. Cozy, man. Carry cash and a stowed urinal and you got everything a man needs. It's relaxin'. And don't forget the blue-sticker parking spaces. A little parasol, a walkman, blanket, binoculars ~ wow! Then we can get into customizing........ I might start with some quasi-official looking unidentified light bar and sound effect generators, and a swing-out laptop IP connect. You can also get away with super-soaking people. (Who's going to mess with a guy in a wheelchair?) Just like home, with better scenery and fresh air. Half the time, it's the best seat in the house.

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (28504)	6/10/1999 7:52:00 PM
From: nihil	Respond to of 71178

If you paint your powerchair like that, you'll get busted for "demonstration of speed!"

To: Jacques Chitte who wrote (28504)	6/11/1999 3:06:00 AM
From: E	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

You know that wild-wheelchair idea? It seems very good to me. I can't imagine it hasn't been done. I have a friend who is confined to a wheelchair, he has a couple of motorized ones, so i've looked very closely at them, and had the thought that one reason they make the user seem so disabled, as distinguished from simply seated, is that because of the structure of the chair, the leg from the knees down must hang straight down, at right angles to the thighs, the feet planted on the shelf below at right angles to the shins, and that is not, ever, the way people sit voluntarily. So it evokes (the actual) incapacity rather strongly. I think that it must also be uncomfortable, and cause backaches. It is natural to tuck your feet under you, I mean under your seat. I have wondered whether it would be technologically possible to make wheelchairs work with a space that would allow the feet to be tucked in a little bit, at least. And then they could be decorated like Harleys. I'll bet Ish knows.