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NNadir

(35,085 posts)
Tue Feb 13, 2024, 07:23 PM Feb 2024

I must really be looking old and wrecked tonight. [View all]

I'm at the airport and checked in early, stopped for a vastly overpriced beer after getting through security, mostly because I needed to sit to rest my bad back and hip.

I went to the gate on my boarding pass only to find the flight there was to Chicago whereas I'm going to Boston. The gate changed from concourse B to concourse A.

It was quite a walk, and the pain started rising, but I would have made it with a few sitting stops. Then one of those shuttle cart drivers took a look at me and invited me to get on. She drove me to the gate. When I got there, all the seats were full, but a nice young man offered me his.

On one level the kindness is thrilling; on another I wonder how terrible I look.

The days when I could sprint across airports for connections are over.

I am happy to have lived a long time and if the price is a little manageable pain mixed with human kindness, well I'm a lucky guy.

Happily I don't have to travel as much as in younger days.

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you look lovely from here nt msongs Feb 2024 #1
A young teen offered me his seat on the bus the other day. Demobrat Feb 2024 #2
You should get a handicapped placard. Mr.Bill Feb 2024 #3
The best part of using a wheelchair JoseBalow Feb 2024 #4
Don't give Trump any ideas. Mr.Bill Feb 2024 #5
wait, you mean a handicapped parking thing you hang on your mirror? eggplant Feb 2024 #7
Yes. Mr.Bill Feb 2024 #9
My wife has a placard. It never occurred to me to carry it anywhere but a car. eggplant Feb 2024 #24
My wife carries hers in her purse. Mr.Bill Feb 2024 #25
The best part about getting older femmedem Feb 2024 #6
It's worth being old now, to have been young then. WheelWalker Feb 2024 #11
Ha! Easy for you to say. babylonsister Feb 2024 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Feb 2024 #30
I like it, too. Mr.Bill Feb 2024 #31
Cheers Mr.Bill! jfz9580m Feb 2024 #32
I will certainly second that. NNadir Feb 2024 #21
I broke my ankle last week and I am on crutches lynintenn Feb 2024 #8
you probably had the pain on your face. barbtries Feb 2024 #10
When you're in pain you show it throughout your body... slightlv Feb 2024 #12
I'm heading to the airport in three weeks to fly to Indiana to see my family. tavernier Feb 2024 #14
Over 75 benefits going through airport security unc70 Feb 2024 #29
I log in two miles a day at work tavernier Feb 2024 #34
I have never been the same with my arthritic back since I determined myself to go through the entire Sainsbury Wing of CTyankee Feb 2024 #15
I know I look old when the agingdem Feb 2024 #16
I get one of two reactions at the self checkout moniss Feb 2024 #37
Ya look pretty dayum good from here! sheshe2 Feb 2024 #17
Have you ever tried a TENS unit? Bayard Feb 2024 #18
Lidocaine creme rules too AllBlue Feb 2024 #19
My last airline trip Pas-de-Calais Feb 2024 #20
That's wonderful! NNadir Feb 2024 #22
Nice, Nice, Nice!!! elleng Feb 2024 #28
You probably just looked like you were hurting redqueen Feb 2024 #23
Thanks for the kindness of strangers! elleng Feb 2024 #26
My cynical thought for today: Aussie105 Feb 2024 #27
Yep. I am the same way. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2024 #33
Many days it's moniss Feb 2024 #36
I have had a few of those as well. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2024 #40
I can't travel by air, bus or train very well moniss Feb 2024 #35
We haven't flown in over a year & are avoiding it. Our next trip to the UK will be via train. GoneOffShore Feb 2024 #38
Those kinds of incidents MuseRider Feb 2024 #39
The reflection in the mirror UpInArms Feb 2024 #41
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