@ HandEFood,
Yes indeed, not in Australia. I heard this joke long ago in Italy because their driving is eh.
And guess what, they even laughed.
Anyhow that was not the point, and your disagreement is a very good indicator to a healthy mentality that finds no fun in being sarcastic about death.
I had a friend the brother of which was born with a genetic disorder that caused his left side to have some disfiguring in the left leg, the left hand and his left side of the face. He limped and his left arm was shrunk and bent, while he talked in a very strange way. One day I was visiting my friend when a bad mannered colleague of both of us was there too (it was during our college years). The handicapped brother tripped in the carpet and spilt a bit of juice in a glass he was offering me. The smart-[nocando] bad mannered person murmured “idiot”, but I and the HC brother heard him. The HCB quietly went inside and came back with a chess board laid it in front of the smart guy and told him “would you care to find out who of us is the idiot, your turn.”
Guess what, my friend’s brother won and the smart guy fainted. It was hilarious and we urged the smart guy to apologise and he did. The interesting thing is that the handicapped genius accepted the apology so kindly.
How can the society refuse a child born blind if he could grow into Steve Wonder or Andréa Bocelli?
I worked as a consultant for a company in which the research engineer who relentlessly logged the data of motor performance against six parameters was a handicapped. The president of the company told me that he was slower than average but his results were dead on target and trustworthy. No one else would have his stamina at repeating the same experiment tens of thousands of times. It is my personal experience in life that taught me to respect them as equals.
Kindest regards.
