Thursday, February 18, 2010

The Chair

I am kind of conflicted on whether or not to even bother writing this. I don't see a reason for anyone to read it but me, so its probably just a waste of time. I guess I will write this one post and see what happens. Anyway, in the physics department at school, I have a comfortable office chair, which my "caseworker" in Student Services tracked down for me so that I could sit and do homework in the physics department, rather than spending my spare time in my car. Naturally, everyone always sits in my chair when I'm not around the physics department and so, I have to ask the person if I can have the chair that they are sitting in, or sit in one of the much less confortable, more painful chairs that are in the department. The awkwardness reaches a peak when there is a girl sitting in my chair, and with all her guy friends around, I have to ask her to get up and give me the comfortable chair. The fact that I smell like weed, especially when I first walk into school, makes the whole situation 10x worse, because now I am seem as a lazy stoner, who puts his comfort ahead of everyone else in the lab.
To them I act like I am entitled to the chair, because they do not know that in reality I am entitled to it. And it isn't like I have kept it a secret that my back, and back pain, is an issue, although it is hard for me to keep track of just who I have, and who I haven't. And I'm not being a paranoid stoner either, I was walking my chair from a lab upstairs, back to the physics department downstairs, and a passing physics student said something along the line of, "You know that's not your chair, right?", or something like that.
I don't know what the real point of this is, if anyone reads this I would like them to learn that they shouldn't write someone off as lazy, or dumb, or a jerk, without first applying some empathy. Someone who seems to ignore every thing you say to them may seem childish without a second though, but I ignore people all the time, but it isn't usually done on purpose, I am amazed at how many people are too clueless to associate a hearing aide with hearing loss.
Anyway, that should be long enough, so yeah. A slightly depressing post for the first one out of the gate. Should I write another, it will be from a more comical standpoint, maybe.