So I got one. It's long and kinda 'you had to be there' but here goes:
My girlfriend and I are both disabled and use chairs if we're going a long distance or standing for a long time. She's good at wheelchair track (100 & 200 meters) and had made the 2012 Paralympic games in London (competition for the physically disabled held every four years, two weeks after the Olympics using the same venues). I was lucky enough to travel there and watch her compete. Before we got to see each other I stumbled upon an open air flower market and got a small little pink plant in a pot for a few pounds. She liked the plant and kept it in her room in the athlete's village and it did surprisingly well. I figured it'd die before the week was up but on our last day there we were trying to figure out what to do with it.
We didn't really want to throw it out, but just walking up to a stranger and giving them a plotted plant just seemed weird. We were just tooling around in Green Park while trying to figure out what to do. We were debating just planting it in the park and leaving it but we decided to stop and ask a two policemen if there was someplace nearby we could plant it. They couldn't really come up with anywhere so we asked if we'd get in trouble if we just planted it in the park. This was the response: "Normally yeah, but just say it's a memorial to your dead uncle Bob. I mean who's gonna stop two disabled kids during the Paralympics?"
So we went to a relatively quiet part of the park and proceeded to dig in the hard dry soil with two wrenches (this plan was really well thought out). After about twenty minutes of furious digging and looking over our shoulders the deed was done and we went and had Pasties.
My girlfriend and I are both disabled and use chairs if we're going a long distance or standing for a long time. She's good at wheelchair track (100 & 200 meters) and had made the 2012 Paralympic games in London (competition for the physically disabled held every four years, two weeks after the Olympics using the same venues). I was lucky enough to travel there and watch her compete. Before we got to see each other I stumbled upon an open air flower market and got a small little pink plant in a pot for a few pounds. She liked the plant and kept it in her room in the athlete's village and it did surprisingly well. I figured it'd die before the week was up but on our last day there we were trying to figure out what to do with it.
We didn't really want to throw it out, but just walking up to a stranger and giving them a plotted plant just seemed weird. We were just tooling around in Green Park while trying to figure out what to do. We were debating just planting it in the park and leaving it but we decided to stop and ask a two policemen if there was someplace nearby we could plant it. They couldn't really come up with anywhere so we asked if we'd get in trouble if we just planted it in the park. This was the response: "Normally yeah, but just say it's a memorial to your dead uncle Bob. I mean who's gonna stop two disabled kids during the Paralympics?"
So we went to a relatively quiet part of the park and proceeded to dig in the hard dry soil with two wrenches (this plan was really well thought out). After about twenty minutes of furious digging and looking over our shoulders the deed was done and we went and had Pasties.