Wait. You've got an electric wheelchair? Well ain't THAT suckin off the gubmint tit!
I guess it is and will admit it. No way I could afford the fuckin thing. No way I could afford a garbage model either. My current chair (one that I wanted that went a bit faster than my last chair) was no more special, because of the speed increase (simple resistance modification at the factory)...yet they both cost enough to buy a GOOD used car. Seriously. My brother estimated from web sites (parts) and labor(knowing people that work in the industry)...that this chair has about a 500 to 600 percent mark up. What a racket.
I'm allowed one new chair every 5 years (with the old one returned). They're thinking about extending that to 7 or 8 years. These things (even the better models) start seriously breaking down after about 3, oh joy.
Ask Kell, I bet I weigh about a buck 50, a buck 55 and when she was kind enough to take me to a recent outing, I had to excuse myself from her and her girls company to recharge a "fully" charged chair, that I was assured, with a test not even 5 days prior to the outing...that the batteries were "good to go."
I'm grateful beyond measure...but I can still bitch!
