Pimp my wheelchair
Hello there. This is my entry for the reasonably clever/tranquillity base PIMP MY WHEELCHAIR competition. As I use a wheelchair myself it was quite easy to design my perfect wheel chair. “May I present the Mega-chair six-thousand! Ta-da!” It’s filled with fantastic features to make life in a wheelchair slightly more easy. Let me show you…
Here’s a close up of the ever so comfy chair seat. Instead of the bog standard one piece lego chair, I scoured my small collection and made this red armchair (Yes, it has chair arms. Thou arm chair shalt not evade ye no more). In the right hand arm is a cup holder (shown in this shot holding a cup), and in the left hand is the control joystick.
Here’s a back shot of the chair. Here you can see the exhaust pipe, the Umbrella/sunshade, and the rear view camera. I’ll focus on those later on.
And now, the wheels. The back wheels are large, off terrain wheels, ready to take on mud, uneven ground, cobbled stones and even dry sand. Yes, thick dry sand. If you’ve never been on a beach in a wheelchair , you just won’t understand.
But that’s enough standing there looking at it. It’s time to drive this thing.
Sitting down, I realise how remarkably comfy it is. Gripping the joystick and putting my mug of hot chocolate in the cup holder, I’m ready to take to the pavement.
Although once on the pavement I’m faced with one of the first wheelchair user’s problems. I have to cross the road, but the dip in the pavement is blocked by a large red sports car, thus forcing average wheelchairs to either look for another rare dip in the curve or find a way of getting of the pavement without using a curve. Fortunately I had the foresight to add a large car crusher claw to my invention.
“I’ll just ‘move’ this…”
“Whoops (!)”
“Sorry, But it was in my way…”
Another annoying thing that people do is use the disabled spaces when they haven’t got a blue badge.
“We’ll soon sort this out…”
*CRUNCH* “That’s better.”
“Sorry, but last time I checked this was a disabled space, not a ‘stop and get some money from the cash point’ space.”
Onto reversing. Reversing in a wheelchair is difficult. Often it’s impossible to see behind you and you end up crashing into someone’s ankles. The Mega-chair six has a screen attached to it with live feed from the rear view camera. This way you can see what’s behind you. No more ankle terrors at tescos!
As soon as I’ve shown you the rear view camera it starts raining. Now if you’re sitting in a wheelchair in the rain you get quite wet (If you don’t believe me try it. Go out in the pouring rain and just sit there. You’ll get wet.) There are rain covers for wheelchair users, but they tend to make you look rather daft, water drips into the top, and it drags on the wheels. Luckily for me, I added an umbrella.
And that’s pretty much all folks. Thanks for joining me on this little tour, and don’t forget to check out my daily legoville webcomic. TTFN: Ta-Ta for now.