A new world

I am disabled and can't walk or carry stuff heavier than I so I am not only living in a world that use to be a utopian existence because people wanted to do thing for me and appreciated my visiting their establishment. Every where I looked there was a gas station with gentlemen pumping gas for you and washing your windshield along with checking your air and then that, "is there anything else I can do for you sir?" question at the end of a fill up. The world was so much more than it is today for now I stand in long lines waiting for underpaid rude teenagers collecting your money with an attitude that says when you ask a question, "I don't know you can ask the manager over there or you can fill out one of these", to have a conversation with a caring person.

I just happen to be a person with a disability named Larry, or LaRoo if you a close friend and I have lived in two different words here in the united states and then 3 other cultures in the family travels out of this country. I now ride in a wheelchair but used to run with the best of them. I remember driving into any gas station in town, any town USA, and you would get a guy coming out to you to fill your gas tank or back in the old days you would ask for $5.00 worth and the guy, never a lady, pump gas into your car and ask you if you wanted your oil checked but you always got a window washing.

Days began changing I remember in the 80 these gas stations started selling cigarettes, beer, and chips, rolling papers, and the such and that took off so the guy now had to sell stuff and pump gas so they started hiring 2 guys or 3 if you did mechanic and sell gas politely, sell goodies politely, and then you never saw the guy that worked on your car unless you were getting your car worked on. and by the end of that one guy was doing all but the mechanic so both were done real rudely but they did it for you and they were drying up because of that damn do it yourself is cheaper trick. I can see the guys now planning it, "Hey Joy, I have an idea, we will say its do it yourself and we can fire one of our employees and start selling candy bars too"

The next thing you know your hunting for the only full service gas stations in the world, BP and you can still get a car wash. 2 bucks but at least they will still come out and pump your gas. Like I said I am disabled and I don't have anything like those lucky enough to have gotten big settlements for their accidents this one was all my fault I was driving a car at 3 am at age 18 with a 21 drinking age law and there was one more bar open so I pull in with the woman on my arm feeling real proud. In we go smashed as Cooter Brown and we begin ordering rum and cokes and dancing the night away but after my 4 or 5th the owners said it was time to close up. Now drinking time had been over for 2 hours ago when I find out I have to give a woman, you remember the pretty one on my arm, well after fighting the guy who borrowed the car we were using about who was taking the girl home I ended up doing so, well after dropping her off I was paralyzed from my waist down from that point so I am looking for those gas station that still are full service and thank God for fast food but screw the people that take 8 peoples orders and then goes to the drive through.

Any way everyone wants some type of sign that you truly are cripple, the garbage folks want my doctor to sign a paper stating that I can't carry my trash can to the street corner. Now to me that is carrying things a little to far I mean come on, My doctor has to fill out a paper so I don't have to drag that trash can my taxes paid to make and paying the salaries to the guys getting my garbage. We are not getting a half cut in our bill for them doing half the service we are paying for but I have to get a prescription stating I am a cripple to have the city help me. that is like saying, I am a woman and cant carry that huge trash can up that hill for you to dump and you have to get the form for helping hands garbage handlers and fill it out telling them who and what you are along with your doctors note.

The land of the free. We the people. This world is me the country, what are you going to do for me. This mentality is for the birds people.. I love you all but the greed and need for everything except a good relationship or freedom to express yourself and be the best you can be all the time. Being pissed off sucks and it makes every one around you sucked right into it. We had better watch it and be wise or we are in for a rude awakening right here in the good old USA. We are weaker than any country in the world when it comes to playing together. We don't and we are set up that way. We don't worry about our freedom at all yet that is the one thing that is being attacked here its your rights and once you have written away freedom you are stuck with rules and laws that just tear down the fabric of a society. Lets rid the world of hate and laws that is for babies and we are grown beyond the childish behavior in the Middle East.

We are bigger than this and the scourge needs cleansing and if it be us let it be but I feel that investing in god and loving one another and putting the kingdom of GOD first. Be neighbors with one another and stop all the bull. We the people don't have a problem with anyone except for the guy that planed the twin towers destruction because no matter what you were trying to tell us you killed a lot of people that are well missed and our country is diminished by three thousand folk or so. We don't want vengeance for that is our God's promise to us it is ours to keep it from happening again and I feel that we should never kill what we don't have to and if we decide to fight a war everything must go and we the people are responsible for that but to drag on death and dieing is senseless. If we know where the problem exists take it out and move on.

We must think long and hard before we do such a terrible thing. if it was done to us should we in turn show the same senselessness in retaliation. We must learn to beat people with out weapons but our world must become one and the Internet is a start. We can tell the world the truth and let them figure out the truth in their own minds.

Anyway I am crippled and I pay extra for parking and can't use the spots because they all are full. I am a smoker and it was shoved down my throat when I was young and now that I like it I have to hide to smoke it.. I have to fill out extra papers for all kinds to get permits to do this or that from my doctor saying I am cripples. The way the world use to work is every one believed you and if you got caught cheating you went to jail and it wasn't a camp to visit. Now you are a crook.

Be good to one another and love one...

Peace Out