ok so i just got back from a quick run to the panino and frullati shop for lunch where the guy behind the bar flirted-slash-was nice to me for the first time- i have been going to this sandwich shop intermittently for the last year and a half and the guys who make the smoothies are always super gruff. so, i get my sandwich and my smoothie only after waiting a short while and having five more pushy people get their smoothies before me.
the thing is, on this normal day where i skip out for fifteen minute lunch, on my way to the sandwich shop i saw something which to me has become incredibly common but simultaneously disturbing. i saw a guy sitting on skateboard padding around with a pair of shoes on his hands and a crumpled paper cup in his hand. why you ask? the answer is personal. i was born with what are called 'club feet', who knows what they are actually called, but I was born like these 'gypsies' (otherwise known to civilized people as 'Rom') riding around on skateboards. my feet were turned in and my heels basically did non exist. Without the operations as a small child, I would have never walked, let alone run, dance, or skip.
