Sh*t scooterists hear
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Sh*t scooterists hear
This is meant as a companion to Eric's "Sh*t scooterist's say" thread....
Can you go on the highway with that thing?
How fast does it go?
Ha ha ha!
Sorry! I didn't see you there.
What's your mileage?
It looks like a toy.
Did you ride your Buddy in today? (I get this one at work every time it snows. After three years they haven't figured out... it STILL aint funny!)
You rode here, on THAT!
Wanna race?
Hey, nice Buddy!
I like big tires better.
Can you go on the highway with that thing?
How fast does it go?
Ha ha ha!
Sorry! I didn't see you there.
What's your mileage?
It looks like a toy.
Did you ride your Buddy in today? (I get this one at work every time it snows. After three years they haven't figured out... it STILL aint funny!)
You rode here, on THAT!
Wanna race?
Hey, nice Buddy!
I like big tires better.
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"Why do you need a full-face helmet? It's just a scooter"
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"How did you get that scooter here?"
I guess many Californians have never heard the term "surface streets" before.
It's then followed up with, "You can take suface streets to get here?"
Then, "I can't picture you on that."
At which point I sit on it and tell them to take a picture.
Next is, "Why don't you just get a motorcycle?"
To which I reply, "Why don't you?"
And they say, "My wife won't let me."
I then close with, "And you're calling me a dork? At least I'm not a ______."
Good times.
I guess many Californians have never heard the term "surface streets" before.
It's then followed up with, "You can take suface streets to get here?"
Then, "I can't picture you on that."
At which point I sit on it and tell them to take a picture.
Next is, "Why don't you just get a motorcycle?"
To which I reply, "Why don't you?"
And they say, "My wife won't let me."
I then close with, "And you're calling me a dork? At least I'm not a ______."
Good times.
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Funny you should mention that. I went to our shop yesterday and they had a faded, slightly rusted Lambretta. It seems a lady was in rural Arizona "picking" and asked a farmer if he had anything for sale. They looked in his barn and there was this Lambretta with license plates that expired in "85. She offered him $900 and he saidstill shifting wrote:"My Uncle, (Brother, Father, Grandpa...) had one of those things, I think it still around somewhere, in the barn, (basement, shed, chicken coop... ) back home in..... some where obscure, distant and unlikely. R
"Lady, if you can get it out of here, you CAN HAVE IT."
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What?!? I do that?!?Skootz Kabootz wrote:"You rode it to where???"
(Often shortly followed by EricAlm saying "How many #$#*&^%$ times are you going to tell that story??? )
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"Wow, your jacket is really heavy."
"Man, this jacket is heavy."
"Why is your jacket so heavy?"
"Oh, it has armour? Wow, that's cool. Can you survive a bullet?"
"Isn't it hot?"
"Wow, that's bright!"
and my favorite:
"You're a badass!" [said by the enduro rider at work, every time he sees me and it's freezing cold, there's snow on the ground, or it's pissing down with rain]
"Man, this jacket is heavy."
"Why is your jacket so heavy?"
"Oh, it has armour? Wow, that's cool. Can you survive a bullet?"
"Isn't it hot?"
"Wow, that's bright!"
and my favorite:
"You're a badass!" [said by the enduro rider at work, every time he sees me and it's freezing cold, there's snow on the ground, or it's pissing down with rain]
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Lol no, I would rather not be referred to as "Scooter Bitch" by highschool boys... so it's all yoursravenlore wrote:Dammit, does that mean I have to stop using #ScooterBitch as a hashtag when I post stuff about scooters/scootering?AWinn6889 wrote:"What up scooter bitch!?" --Two high school boys yelling at me from their bus stop... every single morning I leave for work.
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+1 HAHAHAHAPeterC wrote:I'd rather be a Scooter Bitch than a Bus Baby.AWinn6889 wrote:"What up scooter bitch!?" --Two high school boys yelling at me from their bus stop... every single morning I leave for work.
"You REALLY ride that"... I'm 6'3"
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Or, in the case of my MP3 250, "One of your headlights is out" (one headlight does low beam, and the other does high beam, like some motor cycles).rkcoker wrote:I couldn't tell if the person was serious or not:
"Your headlight's on! I didn't want your battery to get drained."
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"you want to sell it?" about once a week I get this.
"what do you do when it rains" -I get wet.
"why do you have a Full face helmet on a scooter?" because the pavement doesn't care what's between my legs. (not to mention the bugs, rain and random objects-cigerette butts ect...).
"how fast does it go?" 65mph"no no no, I meant how fast, I know it gets good gas milage" 65mph, 80 mpg, and then "you want to sell it? again
"what do you do when it rains" -I get wet.
"why do you have a Full face helmet on a scooter?" because the pavement doesn't care what's between my legs. (not to mention the bugs, rain and random objects-cigerette butts ect...).
"how fast does it go?" 65mph"no no no, I meant how fast, I know it gets good gas milage" 65mph, 80 mpg, and then "you want to sell it? again
2 > 4
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I finally met one of my best friends' girlfriend for the first time last week, and she rides a Ninja. She asked about my "Vespa" after listening to me talk to a friend I hadn't seen in a while, so I showed her a couple of pictures I had on my phone and explained that it wasn't a Vespa... and she says "It must be nice to not have to wear any serious gear on it, huh?" We just looked at her dumbfoundedly and I said "How is it any different if I lay my scooter down going 60mph, from you laying your Ninja down at 60mph, or Tom laying his Sportster down at 60mph? It's not. I have to wear serious gear just like you do, it's not a toy."Chilly wrote:"you want to sell it?" about once a week I get this.
"what do you do when it rains" -I get wet.
"why do you have a Full face helmet on a scooter?" because the pavement doesn't care what's between my legs. (not to mention the bugs, rain and random objects-cigerette butts ect...).
"how fast does it go?" 65mph"no no no, I meant how fast, I know it gets good gas milage" 65mph, 80 mpg, and then "you want to sell it? again
...We didn't talk for the rest of the night, and now I know why she never comes out of the house to hang out with us. She's not exactly the brightest crayon in the box... ...and most of us have a low tolerance for dummies.
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A few that I have re-heard this past week. Most were the same old thing:
-"Hey, you like, need a driver's license for that?"
-(while at a stoplight as the car I overtook pulls up) "Get that piece of shit off the road! Mopeds are too slow for real frak traffic!". Did I mention that it was a nearly new BMW 320?
-"Isn't it cold?" 6:30 AM at a Chevron. 41 degrees.
-Dumb bimbo in a drop top Miata turbo blowing through several yellow lights before nearly sideswiping me meet up at a light: "Hey, that's not safe! You can get killed on something so small!"
I weep for society...
-"Hey, you like, need a driver's license for that?"
-(while at a stoplight as the car I overtook pulls up) "Get that piece of shit off the road! Mopeds are too slow for real frak traffic!". Did I mention that it was a nearly new BMW 320?
-"Isn't it cold?" 6:30 AM at a Chevron. 41 degrees.
-Dumb bimbo in a drop top Miata turbo blowing through several yellow lights before nearly sideswiping me meet up at a light: "Hey, that's not safe! You can get killed on something so small!"
I weep for society...
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I like to argue with them that, had I driven a car all by myself, I'd have been taking up the same amount of space as if I had ridden the scooter by myself. The only difference being that I would have wasted a lot more gas and had a lot less fun.Tom wrote:I hate this one! Been told that by a driver too. As if I could share with them! I looked around the parking lot and said, "Where would you suggest I park?" No good answer to that question.DanielPerrin wrote:You don't need a full parking space for that. / You shouldn't use a full parking space.
People need to think before opening their mouths.
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I usually park my scooter almost perpendicular to the parking space, at the very outward-most part of the space (front/back depending on if you usually pull in or back in) so no one in a car gets any funny ideas about trying to share.P.Blackthorne wrote:I like to argue with them that, had I driven a car all by myself, I'd have been taking up the same amount of space as if I had ridden the scooter by myself. The only difference being that I would have wasted a lot more gas and had a lot less fun.Tom wrote:I hate this one! Been told that by a driver too. As if I could share with them! I looked around the parking lot and said, "Where would you suggest I park?" No good answer to that question.DanielPerrin wrote:You don't need a full parking space for that. / You shouldn't use a full parking space.
People need to think before opening their mouths.
I do, however, leave enough room so that another scooter/motorcycle can fit in the space with mine if they can somehow get back there, but that's mostly because I ALWAYS park in the very first, front row space, here at the mall, and I think it's selfish of mall-workers to take all of the front-row parking. I just don't want to have to worry about my scooter somewhere I can't see it, and that first-front space is right in front of my store.
(Also, I only take that space when I'm on the Bud, I park my car in east bumble hoe-down farthest back corner, because I don't want anyone parking anywhere even remotely close to it.)
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I take it he didn't have you drop him off in dark alley where his friends then jumped you? But you're right, that's a story I'd like to be able to tellSYMbionic Duo wrote:i tried telling him that the bike barley fit me, but he was still insistent that he could fit.
So i gave him a ride on my blackjack, if for no other reason, than it made a good story.
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Two weeks ago I had a guy at a gas station asking me to give him a lift up the street.SYMbionic Duo wrote:i tried telling him that the bike barley fit me, but he was still insistent that he could fit.
So i gave him a ride on my blackjack, if for no other reason, than it made a good story.
Didn't think it'd make a good story; he looked stabity.
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