There Is a pattern to this blog and it generally involves me falling over a lot but some of the stories are just hilarious. And so worth sharing. 
I have given my friends some real surprises over the years. My wife is useless she will help me but she needs to stop laughing first and the public reaction is always the best bit. 

1) Hyde park London. I hadn’t been in a chair very long but we decided we wanted to go to London. Now London is busy all round the clock but at around 9pm Hyde park with its market is heaving. Just out side the gate is a massive road crossing and it’s a busy juction people are back and forth it’s crazy. So I am there waiting to cross, the lights turn green and the stampede of people start, we are off. Across the road no issue I see the little lip in the drop curb and I think I will pop a wheelie. Done this loads of times but today I judge it all wrong. My chair stops dead and I am catapulted starfish onto the path way. Literally Hyde park stood still. I was a little breathless and scurrying back into my chair with my pride in tatters but once we had moved on out of the crowd Nat and I just could not stop laughing. This was my first out I had had since being in a chair so it took us a few seconds to see the funny side. But mainly the fact that a) I was being cocky and b) the reactions of everyone else was a picture. 

2) Off the curb, onto my face. Again this was in the early days of being in a chair and there are two things that you need to learn, get up curbs and getting off curbs. I was no good at either. So my wife and I had been in town shopping and was on our way through the underground carpark back to the car. There was a curb, a little old lady putting her stuff in the boot and my wife saying “don’t be stupid Jamie” that’s right stunt boy here decides to take the curb. No today was not my day, front wheels off the end I go forward I do this stupid little role, that didn’t even look cool. My wife basically says “what did I say” the little old lady almost had a heart attack. Not my finest hour. 

3) Two step fail. Again I am in a very public place with friends, winter wonderland to be exact. It’s raining but we are having fun I am even on the ice in my chair, loving life. My mate as you can see in the photo is also in a chair so the story. 

There was two levels at the winter wonderland and a little two steps between them. There was a ramp on the other side but let’s not mention that for the moment. So my mate who is somewhat more experienced in a chair decides to jump off the two steps down on to the other level. I decided that if he could do it so could I. I could not do it as it later turned out what I did do in stead was face plant the floor and into a bloody big puddle. I got very wet and my friends got the laugh of the day. Again the faces on the general public was a picture but a lesson learned that say.” Don’t do what others do it just ain’t clever” 

4) My go cart. They say there is nothing more innocent that the minds of children and this one involves a 6 year old. So we decided to go for a ride around the local park. My wife on her bike a friend of ours on hers. Her daughter on roller blades and her 6 year old son in his go cart. I was using my Handcycle and as I pulled it out the back of the car his eyes lit up his mouth opened and he said “wow mum Jamie has his own go cart and it’s huge. That boy made me laugh that day bless him but my Handcycle became a go cart from that day on. 

5) You go get your phone love.  This story didn’t directly involve my wheelchair but it does involve my illness. I get really bad spasms and before I got medicated my legs would just kick out and I would go flying. So I am sat on the bed one day with my good wife and my leg done this massive kick out throwing me off the bed and onto the floor between the bed and the wardrobe. Safe to say I was stuck. My caring wife genuinely ran out the room laughing, grabbed her phone, took photos and put them on FaceBook before bloody helping me. 

Here is said photo and truth is we still laugh about this now. It must have looked hilarious. Me there one second and then flying off the bed the next. 

6) My pram. I love this story and again back into the minds of children. So I am wondering around Cardiff museum with my wife and my parents. I pushed along and passed this cute little family with two little girls couldn’t have been older that 5 or 6. As I went passed the little girl pulled on her dads hand and said ” daddy why is that man in a pram” before the father could feel awkward my father who heard her said “his legs don’t work as well as your legs do” the little girl was 100% contented with the answer recived but you had to be there it really was adorable. 

7) Japanese tourist. So I have told this one before and even Though I was furious it did turn out to be historically funny. So I am in London museum looking at a temple exhibit when a Japanese tourist decided I was in thier shot so pushed me out the way leaving me facing a wall. Never been so angry in my life about being manhandled so I then spent the whole day dedicated to being in thier every shot I was the photo bomber of the century. My wife just laughed as I was a wheelchair superman then a wheelchair chimpanzee awwww the list goes on but there are a lot of Japanese tourists at home now wondering who the hell I am lol. 

Being in a wheelchair comes with its ups and downs. Like everything sometimes you just get it all wrong  but there is no point getting frustrated I just sit there and laugh at myself because most of the time it’s my own fault. Kids are the best for their innocence and they just look at things so simply. And I can always rely on my wife to stand there and wet her self before running to my assistance but it certainly breaks the ice off almost any situation.