Modern Buddy

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.

"You're gonna get chains put on (for winter), right?"

"Why do you need a full-face helmet? It's just a scooter"

"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.

"You rode it to where???"
(Often shortly followed by EricAlm saying "How many #$#*&^%$ times are you going to tell that story??? )

" much better ways to die than to ride that thing".

While in Maryland for a convention

"Hey man how come you have Virginia tags on that thing?"

Hey! Pull a wheelie!"

Howard

"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

- You ride a scooter? Oh, like "beep, beep?"
- How fast can that thing go? .... Really?!?!?
- (After riding in rain and cold, from guy with new Harley) You're hard core!
- I rode a scooter once. Crashed it into some bushes and broke my wrist (given as a cautionary tale, apparently)

You don't need a full parking space for that. / You shouldn't use a full parking space.

That sounds like a REAL horn. (as though they expected something wimpy)

No man would ride a toy like that.

I get "What do you do when it rains?!?" all the time.

I just tell them I get wet, like everything else outside does when it rains. Depending on how the rest of my day is going, there's a chance I may even get a bit grumpy about it.

still 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

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 said
"Lady, if you can get it out of here, you CAN HAVE IT."

Amazing, but true.

Howard

"When are you going to get a 'real' motorcycle?"

"is it a shifty?"

"its nice for a girls bicycle"

I submit Jeff Lillie's immortal "Gas Station Answers for Gas Station Questions"

http://www.2strokebuzz.com/features/052500.html

"You'll outgrow a 50cc in a month." (see also: Sh*t Scooterists Say)

When do you have to get it back to your wife?

"Aren't you cold?"
"Yuk! Yuk! You wouldn't catch me on that!"

"How can you ride that thing this time of year?"

My answer:
"Sitting squarely on the seat as usual."

ok - duped from the other thread...

“They are really neat – and get like 100 mpg don’t they” (heard this weekend from my MSF instructor in front of the whole class).

I couldn't tell if the person was serious or not:
"Your headlight's on! I didn't want your battery to get drained."

My favorite, " Do you get hit a lot?"

Skootz Kabootz wrote:"You rode it to where???"
(Often shortly followed by EricAlm saying "How many #$#*&^%$ times are you going to tell that story??? )

What?!? I do that?!?

the one that i hate
"How is a scooter like a fat chick?"


Where do these idiots come from?

"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]

Atleast someone has enough balls to be unique.
(Sadly i wasnt to me. overheard it from a lady talking about another scooter rider in a parking lot)

"WE LOVE YOUR SCOOTER!" -- two high school girls yelling out their car window from the other lane while sitting in traffic.

"What up scooter bitch!?" --Two high school boys yelling at me from their bus stop... every single morning I leave for work.

AWinn6889 wrote:"What up scooter bitch!?" --Two high school boys yelling at me from their bus stop... every single morning I leave for work.

Dammit, does that mean I have to stop using #ScooterBitch as a hashtag when I post stuff about scooters/scootering?

ravenlore wrote:

AWinn6889 wrote:"What up scooter bitch!?" --Two high school boys yelling at me from their bus stop... every single morning I leave for work.

Dammit, does that mean I have to stop using #ScooterBitch as a hashtag when I post stuff about scooters/scootering?

Lol no, I would rather not be referred to as "Scooter Bitch" by highschool boys... so it's all yours

AWinn6889 wrote:"What up scooter bitch!?" --Two high school boys yelling at me from their bus stop... every single morning I leave for work.

Well, that's just unkind!

AWinn6889 wrote:"What up scooter bitch!?" --Two high school boys yelling at me from their bus stop... every single morning I leave for work.

I'd rather be a Scooter Bitch than a Bus Baby.

PeterC wrote:

AWinn6889 wrote:"What up scooter bitch!?" --Two high school boys yelling at me from their bus stop... every single morning I leave for work.

I'd rather be a Scooter Bitch than a Bus Baby.

+1 HAHAHAHA

"You REALLY ride that"... I'm 6'3"

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."

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).

"Damn That little F**cker is fast!" Said to me last nite by a guy on a bergman 400, at the gas station, I was on the 123....

"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

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

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."
...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.

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, can i get a ride? I'll give you 5 bucks." 6'4"-6'6" guy walking out of the darkness @ 11:30pm at a gas station w/ my Blackjack.

SYMbionic Duo wrote:"Hey, can i get a ride? I'll give you 5 bucks." 6'4"-6'6" guy walking out of the darkness @ 11:30pm at a gas station w/ my Blackjack.

He wasn't talking about your scooter.

TVB wrote:

SYMbionic Duo wrote:"Hey, can i get a ride? I'll give you 5 bucks." 6'4"-6'6" guy walking out of the darkness @ 11:30pm at a gas station w/ my Blackjack.

He wasn't talking about your scooter.

Hahahaha ewwwwwww

But really that would freak me out if that happened to me.

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.

(after clearly seeing it parked inside the engine bay)... "so, did you ride your moped in to work today?"

No dumbass, I took the bus and Casper rode my "scooter" in for me.

DanielPerrin wrote:You don't need a full parking space for that. / You shouldn't use a full parking space.

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.

Tom wrote:

DanielPerrin wrote:You don't need a full parking space for that. / You shouldn't use a full parking space.

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.

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.
People need to think before opening their mouths.

P.Blackthorne wrote:

Tom wrote:

DanielPerrin wrote:You don't need a full parking space for that. / You shouldn't use a full parking space.

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.

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.
People need to think before opening their mouths.

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.
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.)

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.

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 tell

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.

Two weeks ago I had a guy at a gas station asking me to give him a lift up the street.

Didn't think it'd make a good story; he looked stabity.

"Hipster fag !!!" Van full of jocks driving their mom's van.