Yesterday on Good Morning America, they talked about driving a scooter to work. Felt the need to add my two cents.
One of our daughters, Laura, just started whizzing around (Tried whizzing around and just made a mess) on her new little Carolina blue Genuine Buddy. Wish we had a picture of her doing it. Anyway, here is a picture from their website. Laura managed to get one before they ran out.
It has a one gallon gas tank and she gets to work all week on one tank. Gets to work in the same time it took her in her Acura. You can't beat that with a stick. Her Mom has the typical worries but Laura is a wise driver. And she looks beautiful on it.
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I am also seeing a greater number of bicycles on the road. I think some people have cancelled their Fitness Center memberships and are using the bicycles not only for transportation but also for exercise.
If I was younger and had a need to go to work, I would get one of these, too. Our daughter really has fun roaring down the street (50 cc engines certainly do a lot more purring than roaring) with the wind blowing my hair (another yuck-yuck, very little of that left). She has a pretty little half helmet. I would get one of those Nazi style ones and pretend I was bad.
She says it is a lot of fun, even on a rainy day. She has a coworker who scoots to work even in the winter freeze and snow.
You surely remember the old Whizzer motorbikes. Looked like a Schwinn with a motor on them. They were a little before my time, but I remember seeing them. We stuck a baseball card on our back tire and pretended we had one.
The bunch on South Water Street used playing cards. Caught hell for messing up parent's decks, too. We all pretended we had Indian motorcycles. How is that for a another forgotten name?
My sons used baseball cards. They calculate the thousands of dollars they would have today if they had kept them.