I've covered at great length in
previous blog postings about my lack of social ambiance come five
o'clock and I'm headed home on the train. I just want to sit in my
car and from the train reading my book and being left alone. I think
I've done pretty good job training most folk who travel the same
train I do going home. I will smile, nod my head, of make
appropriate gestures with my hands but always be sure, I hold my
tablet so they can tell I'm reading. So I'm not a total social
isolate--still, I just want to be left alone.
So I was kind of intrigued I noticed a
smallish, younger fellow board the train. Short cropped hair, black
rimmed glasses, angry bird T-shirt and a unique way of staring down
as he walked down the trains aisle he started talking to all kinds of
people not inappropriately necessarily, just way too close in
cyberspace and questions that were more direct than is usually
socially acceptable. In short he seemed a bit developmentally
disabled. There is another patron on the train in a wheelchair
dressed in military fatigues little guys begin to ask him questions
is how I would fill given wheelchair, what branch the military had
even then, the fly jets, and so forth. When the veteran retired of
his questions the little guy got up and walked across the island sat
down and ask a couple where, who were looking at photographs, book on
camera the photograph are used, or the photographs taken, did you
know there is a better camera that he could've used until the
photograph are pretty much shoot fellow off the seat which is that
point left only me at the far end of the train reading my tablet. I
took a deep breath as this little guy noticed I was reading from my
tablet and he asked "what kind of tablet is that?". I
answer that it is I Thrive which totally excites the little fellow.
He then launches in to a song and dance about did I like the
tablet,am current on all the updates of the software for this tablet,
and was everything I needed to end up on the tablet. In the process
he actually requested to look at the tablet which I gave over and he
expertly begin to go through the system settings and asking if I
wanted certain changes made. I said no but at this point in time
realized this little fellow had shipped into my ice shield and I
begin to ask him questions. Turns out this little guy's is named
Nick, the proud owner of Nick's Computer Fix. I asked if he is
making any money. Nick said Jesse was. I asked Nick the have an
storefront ready work for somebody else and he said no my offices
here, wherein he reached around and patted his backpack. "All I
need to fix computers is in my backpack". Nick indicated he was
14 years old and he could fix just about any computer plus he could
unlock cell phones in their number of other items in the technical
electronic field. I was transfixed with this little guy--I'm sure
he's high functional spectrum disorder buddies out on the tarmac do
it for himself. During the conversation he indicated that he had a
Facebook account and I of course looked it up and indeed he is quite
a little computer geek of the highest order. There were a number of
testimonials to his expertise and gratitude for his ability to fix
their problems.
Nick is a charmer, I'm pretty sure he
knows he's a charmer but he also seems committed to make his business
work. He knows what sells and I think he's worked his angle enough
has tuned it well to meet his needs. He charges 20 bucks an hour and
he comes to your house Monday through Saturday he's off Sunday's. He
carries a cell phone and is there to help. I get the impression that
many of his fixes he knows he can do in an hour. I'm sure the lead
gets all kinds of tips is the embodiment of the American dream a
little slugger out there with a disability making a difference in his
own life. I'm a little worried for Nick about his lack of
recognizing boundaries and in fact when I did explore his website
noticed that he has already been robbed once that he's indicated that
he continues on and that's admirable. So, I want to keep my eye on
this guy I think his got great potential. He could rise to that of a
leader in the disability community but that might be selfish on my
part but we'll have to see. Below is a link to his face but Facebook
page check Nick out, "like" him spread his name around.
Nick could be the next big thing.
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