Disability will have you thinking shit like “I’m not even that disabled. I can manage as long as I limit myself to very specific careers, never go shopping for more than an hour or two at a time, keep my plans open so I can cancel and stay in if need be, and only go out a few nights per week at the most”

Ok so at this point I've had two people roll up to me in manual wheelchairs, well, one of them was somebody pushing somebody who was nonverbal at the time, but it still counts. They asked me why I had zip ties around my tires.

It's winter where I'm living and we have really bad snow. And the snow plow people are really bad at their jobs probably because there aren't snow plow people who clean sidewalks. As a solution I got to thinking about how I could increase the traction on my wheels. And the most redneck thing I could think of was taking a bunch of zip ties and tying them around my wheels. They last surprisingly long, and work surprisingly well. It's basically the same premise as chains for your tires during the winter.

I chose to space them out pretty evenly so there's about one for every spoke. You could probably do more or less depending on how many you want and how much traction you get but I wouldn't go more than three per spoke. I realize that it's a bit later in the winter, and I probably should have made a post about this sooner, but I came up with it about a week ago. So please share this, even if you're not disabled, because there are tons of people I know who are stuck in their houses because they can't get around in the snow. A pack of zip ties costs about $5, which compared to $200 knobby snow tires is a big save, and if you want to invest you could get colored zip ties.

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Oh fuck yes. Thank you all the abled people between op and me this is exactly what I needed to see 💜

ooh sweet, thanks for the tip

(for anyone using their chair both indoors and outside, highly recommend wheelchair 'slippers'/wheel socks like these so you don't tear up wood/vinyl/linoleum flooring with the zip ties!)

! This is fucking amazing and I love it!!!

cmyk test pages r like angels to me

do you understand

sorry to keep baristaposting but i have to share the conversation i just had

customer: "i'll have a latte, please. wait - do you keep your milk in the fridge?"

me: "yes, all our milk's refrigerated."

customer, looking suddenly dispirited: "i see. so it won't be hot."

me: "...we heat the milk up before we add it to the coffee."

customer, brightening up again: "oh! well, that's okay then!"

THEY GOT A WHOLE TWEWY SECTION IN TOWER RECORD

tfw tower records promote twewy more than sqex 😭😭😭

I hope you're cringe I hope we're both cringe

Can you please reblog if you are 18+ and like cartoons like Atla, She-ra, The Owl House, The Dragon Prince and more?

I need to prove a point to myself

realized i never posted this. well, we can't have that

gay?

Yes my liege. Trans also.

very well. let them in.

listening to creep by radiohead but positively bc i feel good and normal

i'm a creep (yippee!) i'm a weirdo (tee hee!)

they all share one single thought!! so so silly

gay sex

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