Always looking for ways to be more of a badass

We have owned a scooter for almost a year now, and I have never ridden it.

Until yesterday.

Did I care that the scooter was more suitable for a 6 foot 3 man than for my 5 foot 3-ness? No! Did I worry about the fact that it weighed as much as a small cow? Not me! Was I frightened of it’s speeds of up to 35 mph, downhill? Huh uh. I am reckless and daring like that.

Here I go, out of the driveway:

starting off

I arrive from my journey, master and champion of our fourth of a mile street loop (looking both ways before accelerating at the stop sign, of course. Maybe I classify more as “badass lite”):

stop sign

I am badass enough however, to ride one handed. Oh yeah. :

thumbs up

And now, a montage of the finish:

finish 1finish 2finish 3finish 4

And the dismount:

dismount

Fortunately for me, Lorso was kind enough to stop taking pictures at this point so that he could retrieve my body from under the scooter after it fell on top of me.

So much for badass.

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6 Responses to Always looking for ways to be more of a badass

  1. You are such a badass. Now, just learn how to benchpress the thing to get it off of you..

  2. You should put a flame on the bike and get ya some chains…I love your blog. You now rank among my favorite humorist writers (in no particular order): Christopher Moore; Mark Twain; Kirk Vonnegut; Jon Stewart; Rachel Reiff Ellis. :-)

  3. racher

    Wow, you two guys just tripled my XY readership – or at least my XY comment-ship. Rock on.

  4. amy

    Hot helmet, lady!
    Did you really lay it down? Wow. Once I get mine fixed in a couple months, we should go be badass riders together!

  5. racher

    It is a hot helmet, isn’t it? Sure, I’ll be a badass rider with you, as long as you’re cool with that 1/4 mile loop right by my house. That’s about all I can do at this point.

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