For a short while mobility scooter were subsidized by Medicare
Now mobility scooters are very hard to be subsidized by medicare and a lot of stubborn people who want to travel around various places and don't want to walk use a mobility scooter.

Anyone who drives a mobility scooter has to sit upright and have at least one hand strong enough to work the levers and switches required to drive a scooter. People who have had their leg amputated above the knee might need a scooter even though some younger amputees have so much strength and energy as to enter into the wheelchair olympics.

Today at the scooter store we were selling a scooter with a ramp. A ramp is one way for a person to take their scooter to places other than the home and maybe wheel around to see the sights. However a person who uses a wheelchair or a mobility scooter may not be strong enough to take their scooter off of their vehicle. If a person can walk only slightly then maybe he could use the electric power on the scooter to go backwards up a ramp.

But basically getting a scooter off a vehicle might prove to be too much effort. If a person can only slightly walk, then why don't they walk more to be stronger?

The mobility scooter business might be a dead end job. There is more scooter businesses going out of business because medicare is not providing more assistance in buying the scooters. The town of Burbank and Glendale has quite a number of people using mobility scooters. They are small enough to get on the bus and all the buses here are able to put a ramp out for the mobility scooters to take a ride. (Maximum two mobility scooters per bus and I have seen mobility scooters refused because there are already two people using it already on the bus).

I believe that when I was 16 I entered High School. (Elementary school is up to 12 years of age and Junior High is 12 through 15). I entered Los Angeles High school in 1967 and graduated in 1970.

My later years probably were more exciting because in my last year the television series Room 222 was partially filmed at our High School. I was kind of mad that the Mad Magazine parody made fun of the television actors making up of a fictional integrated school. Los Angeles high was losing their white students to white flight and Los Angeles High was becoming a school with more minorities than whites.

My second brother ran cross country in High school but I decided to run 440 yards. The quickest time I did was around a minute forty seconds but the top runner does a minute and twenty seconds (James Baxter) needless to say I never placed higher than fourth place.

During lunch period some of the teachers allowed the students to be in the class room to attend meetings. We had Christian meetings and meeting for people who wanted to see Black power and people who wanted to see Asian power.

My friend liked music and he wanted me to go to a Led Zeppelin concert. Somehow I didn't go to that concert and kick myself for not going. However I did get to see the Creedence Clearwater revival. concert.

Even some of the school concerts were interesting. We had James Brown once and also Santana once. I don't think modern schools allow big names to go to High Schools to give concerts.

The Asian community at Los Angeles did have more Japanese students when I attended High School. Right now there are more Koreans at Los Angeles high but back in the late sixties there was about as many Koreans as there were Chinese students like myself.

The Japanese community sponsored a lot of Dances. There was one band that played too Jazzy. They were the Jazz band Hiroshima which a lot of jazz people know about. The Japanese also had ties with Hawaii so we also listened to music from Hawaii.

My family allowed the brothers to learn to drive at around 16. We were a station wagon sort of family and drove around in a Pontiac Station wagon. When my oldest brother got old enough to drive and earn money he got a 1963plymouth Valiant. It was automatic and a six cylinder 225ci motor which was not fast but economical.

I remember driving that Valiant all over town on a single tank of gas. It was too slow to race but it was great to go sight seeing with. That car was blessed because I never got a single accident with it.

Before graduating High School I was talked into taking a computer class in 1969. The teacher was Indian and the computer language was COBOL and only good for IBM 360 series. Main frame computers were the machines people used and they submitted the computer language using punch cards.

Looked like my future was bright looking but little did I know that fates would not be gentle with me.

Go back to high school is a cringe worthy statement. It reeks of go back to your country type of slur.

Where do people get such insults? Insults should not be dignified with replies in some cases. High school was a "free" government perk and basically you get what you pay for. I suppose some really stupid people could go back to school to get a GED but basically a high school diploma is useless, sort of similar to advice to go back to high school.

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