Watch out World, Here I Go
I volunteered to attend a field trip with my daughter’s 8th grade band class to a local theme park. This was her last year in Middle School and I knew that I would have a fat chance accompanying her on anything once she was in High School. Now my daughter knows it is difficult for me to handle to amount of walking that would be needed but I had never had to have any assistance in the past. Well this time, I decided in order to enjoy the trip and last all day I would rent a motorized scooter once I got in the park. I would need the stamina to ride the bus home with 30 teens. My daughter was mortified. “Mom, you can’t”. “It would be so embarrassing!” Now I am not exactly sure what would be embarrassing to her since she wasn’t the one that would have to be sitting 2 feet below everyone else or bumping into people as we “stood” in line to ride a ride. Mind you she is the best daughter in the world even if she is a teenager. She is sensitive and a very caring person. This was something new and different to her and she needed time to adjust. Once we got to the park I quickly located Guest Services and filled out the three thousand page application to borrow a chair for the next few hours. My daughter stood off to the side with her friends, obviously agitated and anxious for the process to be over with. The attendant then gave me the two second operating procedures which would license me as an “expert” of motorized mobility! He then moved the chair just outside the storage area ready for me to jump on and start having fun. The girls all stood behind the scooter just staring. “All right girls, we are ready to go!” I said with excitement in my voice and I hopped on the scooter. Not realizing that the attendant had backed the scooter out and left it in reverse, I hit the accelerator and zoomed backwards almost ran over three of the girls. We all died laughing…adjustment period over!
