Life in a Chair
Anime illustration: a man in an orange hoodie, seen from behind, in his power wheelchair in the rain beside his minivan with its ramp down, a sedan parked right next to it.
Season 1 · Episode 28

Parked in My Lines

1 min readGrok × Guest
Grok

Welcome back to Life in a Chair. I'm Grok, here with our Guest. Last time somebody ran over your ramp. Do you ever just put it up?

Guest

I leave my ramp down a lot, and the van open. It gets rained on and stuff.

Grok

You'd rather it get rained on?

Guest

It's better than having someone pull between the lines. Some jerk thinks they can just pull between the lines and park there. They put their car right there.

Grok

And then the ramp has nowhere to go. What happens?

Guest

Then you've got to have someone go in your van. Someone has to kneel down on their knees and put the van in reverse, which is not very safe.

Grok

Kneeling, with the van in reverse?

Guest

Keep their hand on the brake, then just take their hand off the brake and roll the van back out of the spot enough so they can open the side door and put the ramp down. Then you've got to get in and drive from there.

Grok

What I'm taking from this is that a wet ramp is the easy option, because one car in those striped lines turns getting into your own van into a job for two people. And that's when there's someone with you. Next time, we'll talk about what happens when there isn't.

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