The Wheelchair

Ok, so I have had some weird experiences with wheelchairs this week.

It only occurred to me this morning that there seems to be a pattern forming with me seeing wheelchairs in strange locations.

Now, the weird thing is it isn't wheelchairs with people in them, near them, moving them, touching them in any way. It is wheelchairs sitting or leaning against something or just open and resting in a position of not moving.

Anyway, the first incident was Monday night when I was heading over to Goth night over at Styxx. I had just left my apartment and, instead of taking my normal shortcut through the parking lot of the building across my street, I went around the building on the sidewalk.

At the corner of the sidewalk on one of the wires holding up the corner telephone pole was a black wheelchair. There is very little to no incline on my street where I live so I can't imagine it rolling backwards down the sidewalk to rest gently on this wire with its back. The only door to the building it was in front of was on the other side of the house, on the parking lot side. The next building up is a business and there is like a dip in the sidewalk for the parking lot (there is one on opposite corners of the building to the parking lot, hence a short cut) so I wouldn't imagine it rolling down then up that incline, especially with some bare cobblestones showing through the sidewalk pavement.

At the time it struck me as odd, since it was an empty black wheelchair, really basic, unmotorized leaning against a wire with its back against it with no one else on the street.

But I pretty much forgot about it until today.

Today, I was walking to the cafeteria at work to grab some breakfast. While walking there, there is sort of a crossroads of hallways and at the base of a stairwell, the stairwell is not built into the wall so it is sorta free standing in this big open area similar to a spiral staircase only not so spiral.

Anyway, there is a raised cement area just underneath the stairwell and we need to maneuver a little around it at the hallway confluence and lo and behold, a very basic black wheelchair is upright and folded sitting on this cement stand under the stairwell.

Now, there are some people walking in the hallway this time but there is no one paying any particular attention to this wheelchair. There was no one in it obviously because it is folded but it is curious to me as to why it would be in that particular spot.

Now we have some folks with disabilities at work, but they usually have their own transportation. There is security office and a nurse's station (sorta) much down the hall but not near this location. The only thing that would make any sense in this situation is that there is a first aid kit across the hallway from this wheelchair.

In any event, though now that I think about this one it is not so far fetched, but it did bring attention to the one I saw on Monday night. Though coming back from lunch, I did not see the wheelchair in the hallway or under the stairs any more, or next to the first aid kit for that matter.

So there must be some subconscious significance to the wheelchair events or I am using my imagination too much again. :)

Ah well, I guess I will just let it pass, for now, until another wheelchair incident happens.

*keeps an eye out for mysteriously placed empty black wheelchairs*