How do you deal with that awkward situation of somebody in a wheelchair coming and you want to push them away but you don’t want to create a scene? How do you turn them away? Do you ignore them or wheel them away? – Sacha Baron Cohen Bruno, Da Ali G Show. Interview with Miami club owner.
Equipment sellers can pocket more than $2,500 every time they send a powered wheelchair to a patient and bill Medicare. – Charles Duhigg
Pity? You don’t want to be pitied because you’re a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house! – Jerry Lewis
There are things that I will never laugh at. The handicapped – because there’s nothing funny about them. Or any deformity…At least the little handicapped fella is able minded…or sometimes not – it’s difficult to tell with the wheelchair ones. – Ricky Gervais As David Brent, in The Office (UK).
Uh, uh, Chuck Graham, state senator, is here. Stand up, Chuck, let ’em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about. – Joe Biden To wheelchair-bound Missouri state senator, Charles Graham, September 9, 2008.