This is what I am willing to suffer for SLove...and shopping.
My poor, poor Avatar. She can’t walk straight to save her life. She stumbles around the grid as though she has been drinking mouthwash shooters for three straight days.
While walking, I sometimes realize that my RL self has been leaning in my desk chair as my Avatar wobbles to and fro, in a hopeful attempt to right her….sort of like how you lean when bowling as you try to will the ball to roll away from the gutter.
I thought the problem was using a mouse to walk. So, I tried WASD keyboard navigation. Fine. Sigh. This only means that I am just going to get carpal tunnel in both wrists now.
I live in fear of shops with staircases to the upper floors and no room to fly. If the shop doesn’t have a railing for me to grasp and lean on, I will simply have to shop the first floor and leave. I don’t have the kind of time it would take me to get upstairs. I mean, I do have a RL to attend to, you know. (Note that I do the same thing in RL if I find that I will need to parallel park – I say to myself, “Well, that looks like a nice place…what a shame,” and drive home. Sigh.)
Before sending a frantic IM, I was absolutely desperate to see what is on the second level of clothing store Nyte’N’Day. I must have fallen and gotten stuck between the staircase and a wall six different times trying to ascend. (And I just know other Avatars were laughing at me....) But happily, Nyte Caligari heard my pleas and installed teleporters! YAY!
The formerly insurmountable stairs and the new Nyte'N'Day teleporters!
Even SLove and SLex have fallen victim to my lack of ambulatory skills. I was cuddling with a cute Gorean one evening back when I first started SL. He invited me to his bedroom. He gracefully charged up the spiral staircase. I stood and stared in awe, jaw dropped open. Right there, I realized that if he insisted upon living in a home with a spiral staircase and no banisters, I would just have to end the relationship.
Luckily, I now have a boyfriend who understands how challenging walking is for me. He taught me keyboard shortcuts. He helped me get really good with camera manipulation. He installed teleporters and wide doorways in his lovely new SL home. He is patient when I toddle along beside him and doesn’t get annoyed when I give him virtual flat tires when I follow too closely behind. I hope he knows that I would walk through walls to get to him...
...because I just may.
They are kidding, right?
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