I am one spoiled cripple. I was reminded of this again today when I had to take the local paratransit service to and from work. What’s normally a twenty-minute commute in my own van became a sixty or ninety-minute journey into aggravation. I respect anyone who uses the service on a daily basis; it requires patience and fortitude. I’ll have my van back in a few days, but I get ulcers just thinking about having to depend on paratransit on a daily basis.<\/p>\n
Like I said, spoiled cripple here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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