The Great Minnesota Get Together

For Labor Day my family and I decided to get out and enjoy the state fair. I know everyone talks about all the food they eat and what new sort of edible crap they can put on a stick but that is not why I love the state fair. I love the state fair for people watching. It just doesn't get any better!!

You see it all, tourists, crabby kids, crabby parents, inebriated, wannabe gang bangers, rednecks, hillbillies, tweekers, skanks, extremely large people in little clothes, people in costume for no apparent reason, and my favorite this year the un-handicapped all in one fenced in area.

I call them the un-handicapped because if you were truly handicapped you wouldn't have to rent a wheelchair or an electric mobility scooter. This phenomenon is truly a testament to the laziness of Americans (specifically Minnesotans, today). If you are too fat to walk the state fair grounds, perhaps you should spend the next 51 weeks preparing and lose some weight or stay home next year. If you are just plain lazy, again I suggest you stay home next year. I normally do everything in my power to make room for people in wheelchairs, whether it is in a public restroom, grocery store aisle, shopping mall, etc. but I had a really hard time sympathizing with the fat and lazy at the state fair and they were easy to spot they had the cart rental number posted to the back of them.

Seriously, what has to happen in an able bodied person's mind to decide that they are going to rent a wheelchair or power scooter? Did they consciously decide to be a drain on society? Did they think no one would notice that they rented they wheelchair/power scooter? Did they think they were automatically going to get the "perks" associated with being in a wheelchair/power scooter with out the sacrifices that actually handicapped people have to endure? I really just wanted to scream at these people, "What is wrong with you? Get up and move your able legs!! Have you no pride?" and then when I was done berating them I would push them down maybe then they would be a little more appreciative of the gifts they possess such as being able to walk!!