The Padded Cell

I was walking inside an assisted living facility the other day. There was an elderly woman in a wheelchair who had no legs (amputated, most likely, perhaps diabetes, I don't know). Coming from the opposite direction I was walking was a middle-aged woman and three small children. As they were passing the amputee, one little girl (she might have been 5 years old) said to the middle-aged woman, "That lady doesn't have any legs." To which the middle-aged woman replied, "Well that's the way God made her."

I didn't hear if the little girl said anything more, but I would have loved to hear her say, "Why is God such a bastard?" because that would be what I would have asked. Why didn't the woman just say nothing, or "Well that happens sometimes." instead of filling a child's head with nonsense, and wondering what the lady did to piss off god.

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Three mountain climbers on Mt Hood were missing for several days here recently. The body of one was found, the other two were not found after 5 days of searching, then the weather forced the search and rescue teams to stop their searches.

The mother of the one who's body was found was on television afterwards, talking about her son to the rescuers, apparently trying to cheer on the search parties. She said things like "Luke loved to hike, he loved the outdoors, and he loved Jesus."

Well, apparently Jesus hated him, having skipped him off the side of Mt Hood like a flat stone on a pond.