That commercial drives me crazy, too! Part of the inspiration for this post. Slow is beautiful!

I sympathize with the self-consciousness about slowness, too, as I have become much slower at negotiating stairs than all the limber-legged undergraduates rushing to classes around me. I feel like I need slow-vehicle flashers on my backpack!

Thanks, Megan! I appreciate what you’re going through. Especially the fingertip pain when your fingers swell up. I think there are a lot of us out there who deal with being slower than the norm because of physical restrictions. So many of our daily commercial transactions depend on manual dexterity–from paying in line at check-out to self-pumping gas–and it’s a challenge that melts into the background, because it’s not obvious to others. Thanks for your kind words, and I hope you are getting good medical care!