When the weather gets cold, I wear gloves because I “walk on my hands.” My wheels get cold. Even before I got the really cool looking ones, they still would get cold. Constantly grabbing something cold makes you cold. I am both heat and cold intolerant so I melt in the heat and I can’t stand being cold. I normally start wearing gloves in mid to late October. I wear them whenever I go outside and going to communion at Mass. I also don’t like the feeling of lotion on my hands so my hands get extremely dry in the winter. I know I will never be a hand model and I’m okay with that.
This year, I began wearing my hat and gloves in mid-October. Not long after I started wearing them, they looked like this:
Obviously, it’s NOT COOL because I use my hands so much! I go through at least one pair of gloves a season. Two years ago, my Mom offered me a pair of really nice cotton gloves. I told her that I only wear leather, no thanks. It was when she looked at me a little aghast that I realized that NOT doing things very handicapped accessible isn’t necessarily mean. It is just not knowing. After I explained that I need leather because my hands WILL get wet. Leather acts as a barrier. I get snow on my gloves when I wheel through it. Snow melts. Then she understood.
So, it’s not even December and my gloves look like this! Cold and wet seep in and that is NOT COOL! Some manufacturer should reinforce them in places that are constantly on the wheels. I would be a hand model for that!