I placed an order at my local Chicken Kitchen this weekend on Miracle Mile.  It was a cold, rainy day and I wanted to engage in a quick, in and out transaction.  So I figured I’d pull into the ‘No Parking’ zone for the mere 2 minutes it would take me to go in and pay for my food. Not so fast. 

Sitting on the sidewalk in front of me was a guy in a wheelchair who, upon seeing me pull my car into the ‘No Parking’ zone, immediately began yelling and swearing at me for pulling in there.  I stepped out of my car to try and claim the peace, but he was having none of it, threatening to ‘remove pieces from my car.’  I said, “sir, are you threatening me?”  He replied “hell yeah, I’m threatening you!  Watch me do it!”

So he starts spinning the wheels on his wheelchair toward my car and I just about lost it.  DAVID LOSING HIS MIND - “Are you out of your _______ mind?! I will beat your old handicapped ass if you touch this mother loving car! Calm down and let me reason with you!”

Finally, the old man calmed down.  There could have been a number of reasons for that.  I’m going to guess that somewhere near the top of the ‘reasons list’ was the fact that there was an able-bodied young man 20-something years his junior in front of him.  Oh, and perhaps he was reminded of the fact that he was in an effing WHEELCHAIR.

Listen, there are some things that certain people should just not do.  I, for example, think that I have modest boxing skills.  But the second that I walk into Floyd Mayweather’s camp and start talking crazy, I recognize that I am subjecting myself to a thorough ass-kicking.  Maybe that’s how this old man ended up in a wheel chair in the first place.

Well, I’ve got work to do - more to come tomorrow!