Six or seven years ago, I was installing a system in the middle of Iowa, at a company who had a group of local learning disabled people assembling parts. Now this company, who, in my mind, had a lot of heart to employ the disabled, and had a couple of people on staff to see to their needs. <\/p>\n
The handler, who drove the bus around to their homes to pick them up, take them back home, and wrangled them on the job, was a small wiry woman who was, in my mind, a real gem. She cautioned me against Tard Strength more than once- seemed she had lots of experiences trying to prevent one or another form harming themselves\/each other, and in the process of doing so, had to deal with almost superhuman strength. <\/p>\n
So as I was finishing up the job, one of the workers had taken a shine to me, a hulking big guy, maybe 50, who thought I was IT. I don’t think it was anything, er, odd, he just thought I was cool because I made the big yellow robot move. Anyway, as I was walking out the door for the last time, the handler lady came to me and asked me if it would be ok if this guy could give me a hug. I figured, hell, what could it hurt. Little did I know. <\/p>\n
Anyway, this guy wanders over and wraps his arms around me. For an awful moment I feared he would kiss me, but he didn’t, he just grabbed me and squeezed like a ninety foot boa constrictor. I felt ribs overlap one another, all the wind was blown out of my lungs, and I am confident I could feel my heart beating directly against my spleen. THis lasted for only a brief time, before my admirer shyly turned away and wealked back to his workstation, waving at me over his shoulder. <\/p>\n
I was unable to move for a moment or two, but when I did manage to draw breath again I breathed so deeply that I am pretty sure I sprained a rib or four. I’m glad I didn’t let him shake my hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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