Does anyone else think that this whole “pulled a back muscle moving boxes” story stinks?
I mean, in what universe does the VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES schlep boxes around during a move? Especially when he’s had, like, five heart attacks?
Here’s the other thing: the wheelchair. Just doesn’t seem consistent with a lower-back injury, which is the kind that’s going to put you off your feet (and the most likely to happen while moving). I myself slipped a disc while hauling boxes during a move, and let me tell you, the very LAST thing I wanted was to *sit* for any length of time. My options were to stand and pace or to lie flat. Sitting just makes a lower-back injury worse.
So, a couple of theories:
1) He really did hurt himself moving boxes, which he was doing because there was something in those boxes he didn’t want anyone to see. Like maybe those records that historians are worried he’s going to destroy; or
2) As a friend posited, he really is vindictive enough to make up an excuse not to have to stand while Obama and Biden were being sworn in. Which isn’t really a stretch, considering that this is the guy who just gleefully admitted to torture, told Pat Leahy to “go fuck [him]self” on the floor of the Senate, and showed up in a parka, ski hat and snow boots to a gathering of world leaders to celebrate the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Oh, and shot his friend in the face.
3) He is really unhealthy, as he has been for the past who-knows-how-many-years, and they are still hiding it.
I’ve moved several times as an enlisted spouse — and each time I have had movers and packers. They come in, they pack your crap, they haul it to the truck, they move it, they haul it back into your new house. The even will unpack, although you can opt out of this last step to preserve your sanity since by then they are usually fairly surly and your grandmother’s crystal clock will get no better treatment than the dog’s bowls.
My point being that as a lowly enlisted spouse, I was not required to lift boxes to move — I’m quite sure we got the bare bones moving package and the Vice President of the United States got the deluxe package.
I think it was all about him making a scene on inauguration day.
He seriously looked like Lionel Barrymore as Mr. Potter from It’s a Wonderful Life