The Human Repair Shop

12/08/2025

I’m always babbling about my runs, so I figured I would share my race results from today’s 15K this morning in downtown St. Louis.

12/04/2025

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12/04/2025

🥶❄️ It’s going to be in the LOW 20s today… which means exactly zero people should be walking around stiff, frozen, and grumpy.

What’s better than scraping your windshield in this weather?
👉 A warm massage table.
👉 A heated room.
👉 Peace, quiet, and muscles that actually work again.

While the world outside is basically a popsicle, inside The Human Repair Shop it’s all:
✨ heat
✨ serenity
✨ sore muscles crying tears of joy

Cold weather makes muscles tighten up, joints ache, and stress spike — massage does the exact opposite. Science. Probably. 😏

If you’re going to survive this Arctic nonsense, you might as well do it relaxed and pain-free.

🛠️ Book your warm-table escape here:
👉 www.thehumanrepairshop.net

Because frostbite is temporary… but tension is optional. 💆‍♂️🔥❄️

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12/03/2025

🚨 LAST-MINUTE RELIEF ALERT 🚨 Appointments just opened up starting at 1PM today — and they will NOT last!

Back screaming at you?
That nagging, burning disaster between your shoulder blades still haunting you?
Legs and feet toasted from a hard week of marathon training?
Or that migraine trying to ruin your whole vibe? 😵‍💫

Say less. We are the Gateway to Possible. 💪✨
Pain in. Power out.

👉 Book it before someone else takes your spot:
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Your body called. It wants help… not another “I’ll stretch later.” 😎

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12/03/2025

In 1997, a 42-year-old deaf man from Memphis named Ron Moore walked into a FedEx facility looking for work.
He had a spotless commercial driver’s license, 20 years of accident-free long-haul experience, and a hearing aid that let him pass every state DOT physical.
FedEx told him, “We don’t hire deaf drivers. Company policy. Safety reasons.”
They showed him the door.
Ron didn’t yell. He didn’t protest.
He went home, called a lawyer, and sued FedEx for violation of the brand-new Americans with Disabilities Act.
FedEx laughed. They were the world’s largest cargo airline and trucking company. Their lawyers told the judge that allowing a deaf person to drive an 80,000-pound rig on the interstate would be “reckless endangerment of the public.”
They brought in PhDs who testified that deaf people can’t hear sirens, horns, or engine trouble.
They flew in retired generals who said the same rule applied in the military for good reason.
They spent over $4 million on the case.
Ron’s lawyer was a solo practitioner from a 2-room office above a barbecue joint. His entire annual revenue was less than FedEx’s legal team spent on coffee.
But Ron had one thing FedEx didn’t expect: data.
For two years he and his lawyer gathered evidence from every deaf trucker in America who was already safely driving interstate routes (because the Department of Transportation had quietly been issuing waivers since 1993).
They found more than 400 deaf drivers with millions of collective miles and an accident rate 22% lower than hearing drivers.
The trial lasted six weeks in 2001.
When Ron took the stand, the courtroom was silent. He signed his answers; an interpreter spoke them aloud.
FedEx’s lawyer asked, “Mr. Moore, how exactly do you hear an emergency vehicle if you cannot hear?”
Ron calmly reached under the witness table, pulled out a rear-view mirror rigged with flashing red LED lights that triggered when a siren hit a certain frequency, and set it down.
The courtroom gasped. Then applauded. The judge banged the gavel for order.
In March 2002, the jury returned a verdict in 47 minutes.
They awarded Ron Moore $8 million in punitive damages (at the time the largest single-plaintiff ADA verdict in U.S. history) and ordered FedEx to immediately hire him and rewrite their nationwide policy.
FedEx appealed to the Supreme Court. They lost at every level.
By 2005, FedEx (and every major U.S. trucking company) had removed blanket bans on deaf drivers.
Today, thousands of deaf Americans hold CDLs and drive coast to coast. The flashing-light mirror system Ron demonstrated is now standard aftermarket equipment sold at every truck stop in America.
Ron drove for FedEx until he retired in 2021 at age 66.
Zero accidents. Perfect safety record.
He still lives in Memphis. Every year on the anniversary of the verdict he eats barbecue at the restaurant under his old lawyer’s office (the lawyer retired to Florida on the contingency fee).
FedEx never apologized.
But every deaf kid who dreams of driving a big rig knows Ron Moore’s name.
One man who couldn’t hear changed the rules of the road for an entire nation.

11/30/2025

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11/29/2025

What do I do before giving a three hour massage at 7 AM, I go and run 4 miles!

11/29/2025

11/26/2025

🔥💆‍♂️ BREAKING NEWS FROM MEHLVILLE: 💆‍♀️🔥

So apparently McArthur’s is now ONLINE ONLY.
Just like us.
Except let’s be honest…
our tables are WAY nicer to lay on than their hot stoves. 😅🔥

We’re still right here on Lemay Ferry —
next to the virtual bakery 🍞👻
and across from Mehlville High, where half of you learned how to run late and blame traffic.

And guess what?
WE ARE OPEN ON THANKSGIVING.
While everyone else is fighting over stuffing and pretending to enjoy Aunt Linda’s mystery casserole, we’re out here saving backs, necks, shoulders, and holiday sanity.

Here’s the real talk:
Massage is NOT a once-a-year, Black Friday, “treat yo’ self” moment.
Nope.
💥 It’s survival.
💥 It’s maintenance.
💥 It’s the adult version of charging your phone before it hits 1%.

And our hundreds of loyal clients already know this.
They’re committed.
They’re thriving.
Their bodies are writing us love letters every week.

And in case you forgot —
when Pioneer Cafe shut down, the REAL Pioneer moved in.
Elizabeth, the Kirkwood trailblazer herself, came to Mehlville with one mission:
💜 Fix bodies.
💛 Heal stress.
💜 Raise the bar.
💛 Show everyone how it’s done.

Meanwhile Nick decided to be the pirate king of South County and just run the place with two patches and a dream. ☠️😂

So come through.
Come laugh.
Come heal.
Come see why The Human Repair Shop is the most unexpectedly perfect place to spend part of your Thanksgiving and the rest of your life.

📣 We’re here today. Tomorrow. Holidays. Random Tuesdays.
Whenever your body says, “Yo… help.”

Book now before those aches unionize:
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11/26/2025

🔥 YES, WE ARE OPEN ON THANKSGIVING! 🔥

St. Louis… whether you just moved here last week or you’ve been calling this city home since the Arch was a baby 👶🏽🗼… we’ve got you.

Whether holidays lift you up or hit you hard…
Whether you cooked a full Thanksgiving spread and your back is crying for mercy…
Or you just need a quiet space to breathe, reset, and feel human again…

The Human Repair Shop is OPEN and ready to give you the best massage of your LIFE. 💜💛

We are the Gateway to What’s Possible…
the pathway to calm…
the place you go when pain has overstayed its welcome.

You don’t have to tough it out.
You don’t have to hurt.
You don’t have to do the holiday alone.

Let us take care of you today.
Book now ➡️ www.thehumanrepairshop.net

🦃✨ Pain-free is a vibe — and today, we’re serving it hot. 💆🏽‍♂️💆🏼‍♀️💆🏻

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11/24/2025

Tracy said, “Ever since I started getting massages here, I’ve stopped seeing my chiropractor! I would feel better for a couple of days with them, but I feel good for weeks after getting a massage here!”

💥 Boom, that’s the standard we set, and that we guarantee! Are you looking for a massage therapist? Are you dealing with daily or ? Do you value reliability? Do you like value for you money? If you answers is YES, to any of these, then we are the place for you.

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