August 7: A Day in the Life

For those of you wondering what it would be like to go a day with one arm, I've come up with a list of daily activities that are extremely difficult to complete without the help of that extra limb.

• Making a bed
• Carrying a bowl of cereal, a spoon, and a glass of orange juice to the table
• Rearranging dumbbells to vacuum the carpet they sit on
• Vacuuming a carpet and keeping the cord out of the way
• Measuring a cup of laundry detergent
• Folding clothes
  
• Ironing a shirt
• Getting into a car
  
• Driving in reverse
• Getting out of a car
  
• Carrying a case of Mountain Dew, two cans of Cream of Mushroom soup, and two cans of tuna without a basket
  
• Taking money out of a wallet
• Putting change in a wallet
• Cutting open a bag of frozen chicken
• Cutting open a bag of pre-packaged salad
• Opening a bottle of salad dressing
• Opening a can of Mountain Dew
• Getting to the child-proof drugs
• Scrubbing a dirty plate
• Clapping after the Padres make a dramatic comeback in the top of the ninth inning
• Punching a couch after the Diamondbacks hit a walk-off home run in the bottom half of the inning
• Coming up with a decent topic to write about

So there you have it, folks. A day in the life of a disabled person. See? We're people too.