The Little Buggy Man

So this morning, I had some things on my mind that were chewing up some serious space unnecessarily so I decided to go for a walk. I find that walks help clear the brain of some clutter and just get that ticker of mine beating regularly again when it sometimes goes into dub step mode.

In an effort to make my exercise legit, I decided to get my gear on – the full exercise kit and caboodle and put my tunes on my head and walk my frustrations out.

As I am walking along the footpath for about half an hour, I could see a little man coming towards me on his electrical motor buggy in the opposite direction. Realising that we probably both wouldn’t fit on the footpath, I decided to stand aside and wait till he went past. Not thinking too much of it, the little buggy man stopped right in front of me and started saying something that depicted a thank you that I didn’t pick up until I took off my big head phones from my ears. To add to the thank you, he wished me a belated Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year and a blessed year! Love that.

I was pretty pumped to receive a blessing from a stranger, but it wasn’t until my little buggy man started leaving that I noticed something hilarious that made me laugh and inspired a blog.

At the front of the mans buggy was attached the Learners plates and provisional plates for NSW learner drivers on the front of his basket. Clearly he didn’t require the plates for legal purposes, so my only thought was this 80-something year old had a great sense of humour!

I walked in the opposite direction chuckling to myself and realising I could learn something from the stranger I had just met (even unintentionally).

You are never too old to keep learning!

I am sure that gentleman had a story to tell and probably had been driving most of his life. But I loved his attitude…he may have been some what disabled but he isn’t unable to keep learning even with a disability or age.

People with disabilities are a close thing to my heart in this season for more reasons than one. But even I got a kick in the pants to realise that having a disability doesn’t exempt you or disqualify you from keeping on going or keeping on learning.

Don’t be ashamed of putting your L plates and your P plates on this year no matter what the season. Everyone needs to learn and so what if you thought you should have learnt something years ago! Stuff it! Get on and learn what you can when you can and who knows, you might just be the inspiration to someone who needs you!

Needless to say, I will be walking more often in 2017. Watch this space! lol

An x