My ride to work today

[BruceWright]

I'm riding to work today, my normal cheerful, waving to everyone morning.

There's stopped traffic because of construction, so I'm passing a good number of cars because I'm on the sidewalk. Someone in a car yells out, "Why don't you walk?!!"

I yell back, still cheerful, "Why don't you? What are you doing sitting in a car?"

He yells "What did that thing cost?" I reply "Less than your chunk of S**t!" Still smiling, I glide off, leaving him stuck in traffic.



About 2 miles later, I notice a woman doing multiple backflips on her trampoline in her front yard. I roll up and say hi and introduce myself.

This woman is in her fifties! And she's a past world trampoline champion! And she's doing multiple backflips! We have a nice chat, and I continue on to work.

And that's why I prefer riding a Segway to driving. I never met the world trampoline champion in a car!



-Bruce Wright

Segway: Vehicle of Dream

[malCanDo]

If you gave cheek like that in LA, you're pretty brave! The Segways aren't faster than speeding bullets yet! :)

[ElectraGlide]

Same story here too Bruce......on the Segway you meet some very nice people. I met some neighbors that I would have never met by driving by in the car. On a beautiful morning theres no better way to get around. And yes...I've used the same reply when some drivers going by call ME lazy ! Do they forget that they are sitting there in their car on their brains ??

Steve

[BruceWright]

Mal,

There was a playfulness in the way he was calling out the insults. You had to hear the tone of voice, there wasn't any threat.

That's why my reply was cheeky. Usually I'd ignore him.

-Bruce Wright

Segway: Vehicle of Dream

[citivolus]

Bruce!! That's it. That's the soul. Just like the old Honda ad which read "You meet the nicest people on a Honda"
http://www.4strokes.com/articles/honda/youmeet.asp

You've just lived it. Too cool. :-)

--
swiftly flying

[BruceWright]

That could be a great ad for the Segway!

-Bruce Wright

Segway: Vehicle of Dream

[Race3]

who puts a trampoline in the front yard???? i guess the world trampoline champion. haha

[malCanDo]

> There was a playfulness in the way he was calling out the insults. You had to hear the tone of voice, there wasn't any threat.

I figured that, I was only kidding :)

On a similar sort of note, are there any plans for high-speed pursuit Segways for police use? This might be a good replacement for the cycle cops that patrol boardwalks etc.

[PoloAk]

Did you get her name? Maybe she could teach me to do a backflip on my Segway!

CZWMDV,

Kelsey

[np]

Kelsey, the woman did the backflips in her own yard, so all you need to do is join Bruce on one of his morning rides [}:)]

quote:Originally posted by PoloAk

Did you get her name? Maybe she could teach me to do a backflip on my Segway!

CZWMDV,

Kelsey




http://www.neuroprosthesis.org/blogger.html