No, This Is Not What "Spring Forward" Means

By Jan Chait It was another exciting night in the Chait household. One minute I was watching TV; the next, I was watching the floor fly up to smack me in the face. "Jan," I said to myself, "you're supposed to lean back in a recliner — not lean forward." And then I proceeded to get up onto my scooter. Not always easy. This room serves two purposes: It's a TV room and it's my office. In other words, it's a bit crowded in here, and I can't park my scooter perpendicular to the front of the chair as usual. Due to the location of the recliner, the scooter seat is closest to the chair. I managed to turn the seat around, kind of get up on it, then turn the scooter on and back myself up to the recliner, where I slid back onto the seat. At that point, I was being held hostage by a scooter I couldn't turn off (too far to reach the key) and couldn't move manually because it was so tight against me I couldn't access the lever to put it into freewheel. Bottom line? Since I was in my chair and didn't have any bumps, bruises, scratches, or blood, I deemed it safe to call my husband and ask him to move the scooter. (He tends toward panic mode.) Besides, my granddaughter wasn't answering her phone. (She takes after me and is most likely to deadpan, "I see you found the floor.") Life is not perfect. Literally and metaphorically speaking, you're going to fall and you're going to have to get back up. It's best to plan ahead, whether it's for the possibility of diabetic complications or an...
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