On a trip a few years back, my airline extensively wrecked my power wheelchair and I had to use a loan chair for a few days.
The loan chair was much taller than my own, more like an upright office chair on wheels with central drive wheels and smaller wheels back and front. It was almost taller than it was long.
I was staying at the Boardwalk. One morning I set off for Epcot by Friendship boat.
Now, at each boat dock, they have a short ramp to bridge the gap between boat and dock. It is higher in the middle than at the ends. As I go up the ramp from the dock, my chair leans back; it levels out as it goes over the top; then goes down onto the boat leaning forward.
Have you ever seen those medieval siege engines - the ones that throw rocks at the enemy castle? I was catapulted through the air, landing on the deck.
The boat captain & crew could not lift me and decided to leave me on the floor and radio ahead to arrange help at the International Gateway. When we get there, Reedy Creek Fire Department are waiting for us, plus a very full dock load of visitors waiting for our boat. They put a Band-Aid on my elbow, and to a chorus of 'Heave-Ho', put me back in my chair. Then everyone on the dock cheers and applauses and I am on my way.
Every once in a while for the rest of my vacation, someone would greet me and say ' aren't you that guy from the boat dock?'
Andrew