Medical Innovation: Service Burros

So a month or so back, Leif orchestrated a little get together, which marked my first ever visit to the legendary Minneapolis establishment that is Grumpy’s.

He’d blogged and tweeted about some hip discomfort he’d been experiencing and how, as you might imagine, it really cramps his style as a travel writer and a person who does not own a car. So I inquired as to how he got himself in this position.

Yadda yadda yadda, medical burro.

This is a terrible way to tell a story; I really don’t remember how exactly it came up (this was somewhere between my first and second tall can of Strongbow). It had something to do with how they can’t ask you about service dogs when you travel and the fact that a burro would be more useful.

Missy insists the correct term would be “service burro.”

We’re designing for the other 90% here, people.

  • Missy

    Thank you for using the proper term of Service Burro rather than the improper term of Medical Burro. As the originator of the concept, I appreciate your attention to detail. I’m not planning on slapping Leif with an IP suit at this point but I do think he has taken liberties with my brain child. Hopefully the faithful readers of swirlspice.com will also use the proper term, service burro, when the need arises. Capitalization of the term, however, is at the discretion of the user.

  • http://thisiswhyiloveminneapolis.com/ Leif

    Erica – please inform Missy that I have a photographic memory and when the concept was hatched, her exact drunken, forgotten words were ‘medical burro’. To which my exact, stone-sober, verbatim words were ‘I’m stealing that’. So really, she only has herself to blame.