That’s what I get for going out in public
Posted Mar 31, 2023, 11:03 PM UTC
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It will happen forever, unfortunately.
I've been a double below knee amputee since 2006, and since then I have learned to have fun with it.
"Running with scissors"
"Paying with matches."
"I didn't eat my vegetables as a kid."
"I'm just a really bad landscaper."
Also, while I was recovering in Washington, DC, and I was able to walk around better, we would visit all the museums and monuments and such. I wore a shirt that said "$10 for the Leg Story."
I made $130 in about 3 hours time. haha
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Ordering the shirt as we speak.
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Ordered
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I have that tshirt too!! I also wear one that says “A Zombie Chewed if Off”. My orthopedic surgeon loves that one!!!
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I MUST have this shirt!
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I'm keeping running with scissors! 🦿
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I get this question daily where I work 🙄 customers are so rude sometimes. My employer though has never once asked about my leg and treats me as an actual person
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Depends on the asker. Personally, I don't mind. If I'm feeling cheeky I tell 'em I don't know - went to the dentist for a teeth cleaning, next thing I knew, I woke up without my left leg above the knee.
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I am missing part of my hand, most of the time when I am asked I simply reply “some wild beaver aren’t meant to be petted.”
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I'm a librarian. Kids ask me all the time what happened to my leg. Straight faced I tell them if I'm not wearing it that I mis-shelved it and couldn't remember what part of the Dewey decimal system I filed it in.
As it stands people are people and there is no help for it lots of the times. Children are the easiest to deal with. My youngest students often ask about it and then end up passing it around and looking at the Rain Forest Frog that's on the side. Kids are innocent, its the parents that are idiots. They teach their ignorance to the kids. That's with many aspects of life.
So in response, people are people and that's that. You be you and let life get on with it. Don't let people cause you anxiety. They are in your life for moments only, you have you always.
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Charge $20 for the leg story.
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I like to make up a gruesome story to teach them a lesson about asking. I did it when an elderly lady with her grandkid asked. If nothing else it makes me laugh.
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What I hate is sitting in my wheelchair and looking up to see folks staring, followed by a nervous smile and hello from strangers.
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THIS.
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This! This! This!
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On another thread a guy said he once wore a shirt that ssid, "$10 for the leg story". He made $130.
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Is asking what happened to your leg a big deal? I legit always just look em in the eye and tell them lmao
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It gets annoying. And I find it a little disrespectful if I don’t have any rapport with the person and they just randomly come up to me and ask
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I’ve had someone legit ask me, without having any prior interaction, “woah what happened to you?” I played dumb but I nearly punched him in the nose. You can ask but there’s a way to ask people, and certainly isn’t a personality trait. I asked what he meant and he said what happened to my leg and I said what happened to his face… he was not pleased
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Imagine if you walked up to every overweight person and asked them what happened to their stomach. Or asked every bald person where their hair went.
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IMO it’s something of a thoughtless dicky move. It’s usually not meant as anything mean or whatever, but it’s often jolting a complete stranger out of a bustling-reverie or conversation so they can stop everything they’re doing and (depending on the person responding and how fresh the injuries are) relive some trauma publicly for them. It’s excusable for children because they don’t know any better; adults generally should, and if I don’t pretend not to notice, I’m going to respond with bullshit served cold.
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kid: "How did you lose your leg?"
me: "I just misplaced it. Let me know if you find it."
Oml I love it 🤣🤣🤣
I'll be using it from now on