I recently bought a scooter. Originally for neighborhood travel only, it quickly became about much more than just the post office, the bank, and the grocery store. Within a week I’d traveled the freeway and traversed the Narrows Bridge. In an instant, the scooter became my preferred means of transportation. If it’s not raining, I’m scootin. I can’t afford to drive my car any longer, seeing as how the gas gauge on my scooter doesn’t seem to move. So far I’ve filled up twice with supreme unleaded gasoline (currently over $4 per gallon in Tacoma) and it’s set me back a grand total of $17. How does 75 miles per gallon sound?
With events like 4th of July and the Tall Ships Festival on the waterfront, the Taste of Tacoma and Zoobilee at Point Defiance, or anything you can think of downtown, in the Stadium district or 6th Ave, a scooter just makes so much sense. Parking is never an issue. Traffic is never an issue. If you can stand to leave the dog at home and you aren’t happening by Home Depot for a home improvement haul, life is surprisingly doable on a scooter. Recent advances in technology even made it possible for me to safely transport a fresh iced latte 12 blocks in an earlier, controlled experiment.
Time to shake up your spring and summer! If you need something to perk you up in the morning, to send you to work with a smile and bring you home with an ear-to-ear grin, stop into Northwest Motor Scooters near 56th Street & South Tacoma Way and have Shana show you a scooter or two. They sell Vespa, Aprilia, Piaggio and Kymco scooters. I bet you find something in there that fits your style, your needs, your wants, your dreams…
Awesome; sounds like the wave of the future… that is, until the Road Warrior era hits and your little scooter does nothing to protect you against the gas-pirating, dune-buggied madmen. Until then, my hats off to you, scooter-boy. It’s about time we join the ranks of all the Asian-Pacific third-world countries who’ve been utilizing these low cost, fuel efficient street racers for years. I suggest starting a Northside scooter gang, round-eye, and claim your turf now. Just imagine all the crazy ways you could initiate members and test out their skillz…
Ha! I’m all for this proposed North-end scooter gang. I was sold on the scooter idea well before reading this entry, but the argument made here only furthers my motivation. And thanks to that link provided, I’ve somehow managed to ignore work for 2 hours while researching the possibilities.
Cassio: Lucky for you NW Motor Scooters isn’t 1 block from your office or you’d really be distracted.
J-Man: I’m calling you on my way home. We need to come up with a game plan for these Road Warrior thugs you mention. By the time they arrive, we’ll be ready.
Both of you: If I had to pick which one of you likes Rock Band more, I’d be very hard pressed.
By-the-way, you should see if they make sidecars so you can take your dog around with you; it would surely make you that much more menacing.
I am happy to say that I will own Rock Band by the end of the week. We may have to get Wooglin online for a reunion.
Wow. Congratulations are in order, obviously. Get to the grocery store after work on Friday and then kiss this weekend goodbye.
We have been playing a fair amount of shows. Maybe you’ve heard of us?
We are Freidiohead.
J-Man, you ever pick up Rock Band? Hope you’re now able to beat on the cans daily if you so choose.
To anyone else reading this, a nice scooter related chat has fired up in another thread on this blog. You will find it here. See how they do it up in Seattle…
I sure did; a few months ago. I sure do, but I like to play the bass guitar as well. Unfortunately I received an E 74 error on my xBox, so it is off to Microsoft to be repaired. Sucks to be me.
So that is awful. Hate it when the store’s warranty is just past expiration so you have to play the waiting game with the manufacturer. What’s with xbox errors? This is surprisingly common, whether original xbox or 360. Maybe you were just shredding too hard for the console to keep up?
Yes. I do shred. I shred hard.
Oh, don’t think I don’t know it! Your last visit to Tacoma left a lasting impression on droves of Rock Banders for miles around. I still find groups of teenagers on my porch wondering if “the drummer from Vega$” is coming back anytime soon. They take pictures of me and the house and my dog… Just yesterday I had to give a group of them one of your broken drumsticks just to get them off my property.
In a related story, I’d been driving for 3 days without my gas gauge on my scooter going down. It was starting to make me wonder if it wasn’t working so I pulled over and “filled up”. Just over one gallon. Who loves their SUV?? I wanna hear from YOU.
I’ll send you some autographed 8x10s for you to sling; whadya say, 70-30?
Only those who need them to compensate for their lack of manhood, and power trippin’ soccer moms. I’m considering downsizing from my modest 4-door sedans to a couple of electric golf carts; that way when we finally enter the Road Warrior era I can weld a steel cage around my carts and some sort of death spikes on the front end so I can take out you unruly scooter bandits and rob you of your precious fuel. MWAAAHAAAAHAAAAAA!!