1. since the bf won't hop on the scoot with me yet, we were in my cage the other day, when all of a sudden he asks, confounded, "what are you doing?!"
i paused to realize what he was referring to.
"i'm uh...countersteering."
apparently i lean through turns and curves even in my cage. i hadn't realized.
2. coworker caught me looking at pictures of ines. it was like being caught with porn. he just started cracking up and told me i was obsessed.
anyone else?? fess up!
sunil: "And if you spend 40 dollars making a pizza then you sir are a retard."
ericalm: "No name calling, please. Maybe he's using truffles and top-grade meats."
I am on MB so much during the work day that I have developed a technique to type my responses. I open my Microsoft Outlook with my work emails in the background. I then open a new email message and make it take up about 20% of the bottom of the screen. This way I am free to type using both hands and if one of my bosses comes up behind me, it looks like I am just replying to an email. The other bookkeepers here are always catching me on MB and looking up tires, performance parts, etc…
Oh and yesterday, I rode my scooter like 3 blocks to this burrito place… I get off wearing my jacket and helmet, and one of my co-workers is leaving the restaurant to WALK back to work… after all it was seriously less than ¼ mile….
madtolive wrote:2. coworker caught me looking at pictures of ines. it was like being caught with porn. he just started cracking up and told me i was obsessed.
My scooterist wife used to bust me out all the time for looking at scooter porn—from gear sites, Flickr, blogs, the forums, etc. She used to… until I totally caught her salivating over the image of a red Stella in the last Scooterworks catalog.
I do sometimes try to drive my car like a scooter. Not a good habit! I want to zip through traffic and get very impatient in a line of cars.
I'm more afraid if getting caught doing something embarrassing while on the scoot, though. Specifically, singing at the top of my lungs while riding.
Eric // LA Scooter Meetup Group // Stella 4T // Vespa LX // Vespa LXS // Honda Helix // some, uh, projects…
I was on the road for work a while ago and was browsing scootnet classifdes from thehotel room. Yep...wound up going home with another scoot in the back of the truck.
Now when I am on the road I am only allowed to look at real porn. WHY RED IS RED!
Yeah, I had to drive the cage the other day to pick up some wiring junk while my scoot was apart. When I was accelerating from a red light I thought there was something wrong with the car because it was going so slow! I almost pulled over until I remembered its always like that. I hadn't driven a car in like a month!
I do sing aloud on the scoot alot. I don't really care what other people think tho. As long as there isn't someone's open window like right next to me I'll keep doin it. Otherwise I just tap my toes and nod my head...
At work I park where I can see from the Green Hornet from the door near my register. Sometimes there will be sheetrock stacked up where it blocks the view... I once got caught jumping up and down to check on him. The co-worker that saw me just smiled and shook his head. The sad part was that he already knew what I was doing!
and oh yeah, I definitely am referred to as "obsessed" by everyone in my immediate family.
Well....my husband LOVES guns..we don't have one (yet) but he is ALWAYS on gun forums...and at night he sit's in bed looking at all these forums and i always used to bitch.."man, why are you always on those damn forums???"
well..a few weeks ago when I started to talk about wanting a scooter I was coming on here and MV because I didn't know what one I wanted..(but I went in the cumputer room on the desk top) Well he walked in on me..and said "what are you doing on those stupid forums" and started laughing...now its me on the lap top in front of the tv..drinking a beer
I was intrigued and yet was almost afraid to read what embarrasing thing was going to be revealed to us....
The one thing that I have found myself doing now more while in my cage is eyeing the road for all cracks, manhole covers, trash, sand, oil, small children, chickens, and scooterists to either drive around, drive over, honk my horn at, eat, or wave at!
Not to hijack the thread or anything, but Ronin I just have to say I dig your avatar. It took me a second of wondering what a doll has to do with scooting, till I realized that that doll was none other than "My Buddy".
I've been practicing so much on my buddy that It was horrible to drive my car to work tonight. I hate the way it handles now
I did do something embarrassing today but it was on purpose. I was driving 55 in a 40mph zone. (only to keep up with the traffic I promise) I was following my bf who was driving my car. (I'm too scared to go it alone for now) A lady passed me and came between us. Later down the road I pulled up next to her at the stop light and asked her if 55 in a 40 zone was too slow for her. She flipped me off...
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Kaos wrote:Not to hijack the thread or anything, but Ronin I just have to say I dig your avatar. It took me a second of wondering what a doll has to do with scooting, till I realized that that doll was none other than "My Buddy".
"My Buddy. My Buddy. Where ever I go, he goes. My Buddy. My Buddy....My Buddy and me."
I'm more afraid if getting caught doing something embarrassing while on the scoot, though. Specifically, singing at the top of my lungs while riding.
When I first got my scoot it was a couple of days before I realized that "adjusting myself" while sitting at a light was not a good idea even if it was occassionally necessary.
Also, it feels wrong to be looking around when I'm sitting at a light. It's like everyone can see that I'm checking things out! Whereas I'm sure no one could tell when I was in my cage....
I totally get busted everytime I am trying to check out the ladies while I am stopped at a light… I mean especially with my big full face helmet, you can see me turn my head to watch the ladies while they are crossing in front of me. And I KNOW I am not the only guy that this happens too on here… fess up guys…
When I first got my scoot it was a couple of days before I realized that "adjusting myself" while sitting at a light was not a good idea even if it was occassionally necessary.
Pepsi out my nose. Thanks for that.... I was driving the Met in Estes this weekend and really needed an adjustment. But there were cars everywhere. Oh, the truama!! hehehe
I will not join a racist club that thinks one color is better then another. We are ALL BUDDY'S!
MikieTaps wrote:I totally get busted everytime I am trying to check out the ladies while I am stopped at a light… I mean especially with my big full face helmet, you can see me turn my head to watch the ladies while they are crossing in front of me. And I KNOW I am not the only guy that this happens too on here… fess up guys…
Shift the eyes, practice practice practice. And are you checking out the girls all covered up in their gore-text and umbrellas this week?
MikieTaps wrote:I totally get busted everytime I am trying to check out the ladies while I am stopped at a light… I mean especially with my big full face helmet, you can see me turn my head to watch the ladies while they are crossing in front of me. And I KNOW I am not the only guy that this happens too on here… fess up guys…
Uh... Who? Me?
Eric // LA Scooter Meetup Group // Stella 4T // Vespa LX // Vespa LXS // Honda Helix // some, uh, projects…
I didn't even notice I did it until an SUV of guys were laughing at me the other day.. But I have this little dance I do while waiting at lights, using my blinker as a beat..
But usually I'm walking myself through designing something idiotic or absolutely nuts.
Lately, I only cage it up if I'm going to a race.
Which makes it ok for me to drive like a jerk.
The other night I locked up the rear brake on my Stella and it started to squeal and slide. I didn't realize it was me. I just steered out of it and was checking my mirrors because I thought someone was going to hit me. Then I could smell the tire smoke and realized what I had just done.
The cager behind me decided it would be a good idea to pull up next to me and call me an idiot. He changed his mind when the next light turned red and hurriedly bailed off the main street.
The co-worker that saw me just smiled and shook his head. The sad part was that he already knew what I was doing! 
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