Donating to charity

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 5:47 pm

well back on topic, chuggers (people who stand in street tyring to get you to sign up to DD for charity) are incredibly annoying, but according to recent research it is still an incredibly good way of getting support to charity-although at a cost the amount the charity gets once wages and agency fees have been taken off.
I knew i learnt something at work the other day

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 10:09 pm

Nice smillie Vonny!

Chuggers, that's a good name for them.

I did actually get stopped by this guy in a high viz vest and clothes that could stand on their own. Turned out he was a "monk" with some new bunch of cultists and he was after money. I told him I had none so he asked me to pray with him. I told him that I was busy and needed to get on. He stood infront of me and started chanting, so I drove my chair over his feet and gave him another reason to chant

englishangel · Post by **englishangel** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:21 am

Scone Lover wrote:Being from an Army family I didn't want to say anything. So do you recommend New Zealand then?

Although I must admit, being in a wheelchair does seem on the face of it to rule out seeing a lot of the country which is a great shame

Don't be so negative. In a previous incarnation I worked at a Cheshire Home and there was one resident who had been to NZ, and Israel and a lot of other places. She had a spinal injury at C7 (1 below Christopher Reeve) but with planning and determination there were not a lot of places she couldn't get to.

My home town (Rye in Sussex) is one place that is difficult as it is Mediaeval so the doorways are all very low and narrow.

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:33 pm

Scone Lover wrote:Nice smillie Vonny!

Seemed quite fitting

Scone Lover · Post by **Scone Lover** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:46 am

I still haven't got the hang of uneven ground yet. Roads, pavements even lawns are no problems. Some uphill work is okay but I am still working it all out. Cobble stones are out and rough stoney paths ditto, I seem to end up passing out from the pain.

Doors are the worst for me, I still haven't worked out how to wheel through a doorway I will get there though but I have a feeling that there will be large areas I can't go to.

The people using chairs because they have become paralysed have not sensation of pain from a certain point. I still feel everything and then some so there is this problem of sharp jolts making me flake out.

Ruthie-Baby(old a/c) · Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:01 pm

Wow. Sorry but I find that really interesting to read. I'll PM the rest.