Crystals that should(n’t) be placed in water according to their MOHS HARDNESS SCALE:
Crystals that are 5 or below on the Mohs harness scale should not be put in water. They dissolve or crack if left in water for long periods of time. Some harder crystals should also be kept out of water.
Sitting on the edge of your seat when you need to go somewhere important vs. lounging in back when you don’t.
Sitting in a waiting area and transferring to another chair so that you can use your wheelchair as a footrest and feel smug because nobody else gets their own portable footrests so maybe the giant gaping hole in your spine is worth it after all, I think it is.
And the armrest goes up and the armrest goes down and the armrest goes up and the armrest goes down and the armrest goes up and the…
Grabbing various walls/poles/furniture to move/turn your chair instead of sensibly turning your wheels. (And other parkour moments that could have been avoided with a few easy wheel turns.)
When you wheel off a curb and your front wheels hit the road but the back edge of your chair is still on the sidewalk for a moment so that your chair’s just dangling there and you have to push the wheels that are hovering in the air until somehow it wheels down to the road.
When you drop something in front of your chair and you bend down to pick it up but the chair is slowly coasting forward and you have like a two-second window to be a hero and grab the thing and you’re on the very edge of your seat rapidly waving your arms towards the object like:
When you’re going faster than the chair can handle so it starts rattling because it’s about to break and you either have to coax it through (”Come on, mate, you’ve got this!”) or you start screaming at it (”The M5 is right there, you can have a temper tantrum later, let’s go!”)
And the armrest goes up and the armrest goes down and the armrest goes up and the armrest goes down and the armrest goes up and the…
That feeling when you stretch your body and you get all tense and stiff and then something snaps and your body goes limp and you fall back into the seat with a content sigh before continuing on.
*Bumps into something* *Snorts*
Alternatively: *Bumps into something* “What the fuck?” - You to the inanimate chair that you have 100% control over.
Sitting on things. Just…sitting on things.
And the armrest goes up and the armrest goes down and the armrest goes up and the armrest goes down and the armrest goes up and the…
Sitting in a chair without armrests and tilting slightly to one side until you’re forced to claw at the air and screech like a pterodactyl.
If you do have armrests: squishing as many things between you and the armrest as possible instead of using the handy bag on the back.
Drumming your legs/armrests/wheels (skillfully I might add).
Sitting in a normal chair (i/e: a desk chair, a haircut chair, etc.) and repeatedly slapping the sides before eventually realizing why it’s not moving.
Sitting in one spot but your heel to push/pull your chair in a small rocking motion that makes you feel better for reasons you’ll never understand.
When you’re wheeling extremely fast and you have to make a sharp turn and your outer wheel is airborne for a few seconds and part of you feels like some hotshot racer but the other part of you knows that you’re the equivalent of a dog slipping on ice.
Using your feet to pull your chair (if you can) and getting more and more skilled as the years pass until you look like some Russian folk dancer.
Forgetting that you’re in a wheelchair (generally when you’re new at it) and trying to walk away from the chair like it’s any other piece of furniture before you remember, “Oh yeah…” (You don’t make it that far.)
And the armrest goes up and the armrest goes down and the armrest goes up and the armrest goes down and the armrest goes up and the…
When you have to clean the hair and grime out of the fucker’s wheels every few weeks like some sort of unpaid mechanic and you hate doing it with a passion so you make a whole list on tumblr instead.
