Modern Buddy

Read this over the weekend. Warning it's 13 pages.... but man did I laugh my butt off MANY times:


http://tinyurl.com/4zttok

So there's a Honda forum, a Genuine forum, a Yamaha forum.... how about just a plain old "everyscooter welcome" forum?!?

I've had boys in the 12 to 15 year old range flip me off, call me a pussy, a fag, and all sorts of other odd words and gestures. And I've only been riding a week.

If I were on a motorcycle or in my truck, I wouldn't have gotten a single word or gesture. They wouldn't dare. Why is it they feel compelled to try and start a fight with someone on a scooter? If I stopped and stood up they'd scatter.

Oddly enough, kids in the 4 to 12 range LOVE the scooter! So do most of the parents.

k1dude wrote:Oddly enough, kids in the 4 to 12 range LOVE the scooter! So do most of the parents.

Yeah, I get the best looks from kids riding in cars and at crosswalks. They just STARE.

Even better are little girls' reactions when they see my wife on her pink Buddy. They often point and say, "It's a girl!" Inspiring future scooterists everywhere we go.

As for the name callers, etc., well, they're just that. Not worth getting mad at them. More important to make sure they don't pull any jackass moves like a Porsche Cayenne did with me a few weeks ago. All I did was honk because dude was moving into my lane, but boy did that piss him off for some reason. Guy later took a fake swerve at me. Not fun.

im in the process of making shirts and decals that make light of it-





im working on more, i rarely get a heckle but when i do its by 16yr olds out in there parents car. i just point and laugh back but at the same time -dare them to confront me for making fun of them.

The best thing I ever heard was "Hey, it's Batman and Robin!" as I was carting a friend past Wrigley Field during a Cubs game once. I guess in his Old-Style addled brain, that was really insulting, but I just thought it was pretty funny.

My funniest story, though, was like ten years ago, I was riding along in Milwaukee late at night after the bars closed, trying to find my way to the house I was staying at, and this giant redneck pickup truck pulled up next to me and it literally had a gunrack and a classy "confederate flag with marvin the martian flipping you off" sticker, which doesn't even really make sense when you think about it, and he leaned over his girlfriend, looked at me, and said "Nice moped, a**hole." I was younger and stupider then, and more or less drunk, so I think I replied with the classic, "Uuuuuh, your mom." His eyes bugged out and he started turning kinda red, and just then like 20 of my friends on scooters came rolling over the hill behind us, and the light turned green and he floored it.

I bet he sold his truck and bought a scooter this year. : )

Bb.

illnoise wrote: My funniest story, though, was like ten years ago, I was riding along in Milwaukee late at night after the bars closed, trying to find my way to the house I was staying at, and this giant redneck pickup truck pulled up next to me and it literally had a gunrack and a classy "confederate flag with marvin the martian flipping you off" sticker, which doesn't even really make sense when you think about it, and he leaned over his girlfriend, looked at me, and said "Nice moped, a**hole." I was younger and stupider then, and more or less drunk, so I think I replied with the classic, "Uuuuuh, your mom." His eyes bugged out and he started turning kinda red, and just then like 20 of my friends on scooters came rolling over the hill behind us, and the light turned green and he floored it.

I bet he sold his truck and bought a scooter this year. : )

Bb.

A bit of Mods & Rednecks, eh? What an awesome story.

illnoise wrote:
My funniest story, though, was like ten years ago, I was riding along in Milwaukee late at night after the bars closed, trying to find my way to the house I was staying at, and this giant redneck pickup truck pulled up next to me and it literally had a gunrack and a classy "confederate flag with marvin the martian flipping you off" sticker, which doesn't even really make sense when you think about it, and he leaned over his girlfriend, looked at me, and said "Nice moped, a**hole." I was younger and stupider then, and more or less drunk, so I think I replied with the classic, "Uuuuuh, your mom."

that is always the BEST response to ANY insult EVER.
and how do you know marvin the martian didn't want to secede?

i officially nominate illinoise's post as my favorite.

Voodoo, I want the second "Go ahead and laugh, I am too" decal. I'll let you have the first..LOL

chancerbeans13 wrote:Voodoo, I want the second "Go ahead and laugh, I am too" decal. I'll let you have the first..LOL

i already have the shirt, i make it a point to wear it a lot when im out riding! lol.

voodoosix wrote:

chancerbeans13 wrote:Voodoo, I want the second "Go ahead and laugh, I am too" decal. I'll let you have the first..LOL

i already have the shirt, i make it a point to wear it a lot when im out riding! lol.

I want the other sticker - the saved $1000 one.

Got any?

Thanks,

Jeff

LOL on the laughing/save $1000 items. Fun

Closest thing I've made so far is a ScooterILF shirt. Which really doesn't poke fun at anyone except me and my love of my scooter.

I did have an idear in mind for a shirt but have yet to make it... a t-shirt with something like,

See you at the gas station!


Wait, no I won't.

I'll stick to my ScooterILF shirt for now.

alienmeatsack wrote:I'll stick to my ScooterILF shirt for now.

Scooter IL Ride

sotied wrote:

voodoosix wrote:

chancerbeans13 wrote:Voodoo, I want the second "Go ahead and laugh, I am too" decal. I'll let you have the first..LOL

i already have the shirt, i make it a point to wear it a lot when im out riding! lol.

I want the other sticker - the saved $1000 one.

Got any?

Thanks,

Jeff

well, this is Eric's pool... so i wont pee in it by posting links to my stuff in public. there is a link to the "gear" on my buyers guide site in my sig though.

Another sticker idea:

I'm laughing all the way to the bank. Are you?

bunny wrote:

alienmeatsack wrote:I'll stick to my ScooterILF shirt for now.

Scooter IL Ride

SILR just isn't as funny to me

But, I'm a strange strange man. So, what I think is funny is not always funny to others.

I am also somewhat paranoid, so provoking people who make rude comments to me is not something I want to do. I'd think they were following me home and then freak out all night thinking they were out to get me.

yeah, I am strange.

The other day I had a high school age kid just about run me down from behind. When I pulled up next to him at the next light, I looked over - probably with a perturbed expression. Well the little ^$()&*^()@&*%^ and his equally pubescent passenger started calling me names and said that I should get off my "moped"!
I'm about 240 pounds and I don't intimidate easily. I leaned over and said, "Its okay junior: Once you have your first sexual experience that skin thing should clear right up." He flushed and called me a Bleeping Bleep, and peeled out at the green light. It seems he didn't want to discuss it further...