Sometimes, You Run Across...

... someone who looks like they need a laugh, and sometimes the perfect thang pops into your head to get them there.

You know when you walk into a store and are confronted with a clerk with this expression [above]? Like you know the clerk isn't going to speak first, greet you, ask if they can help you, etc.

Well, I got this just now at the gas station. It was a black woman, maybe a few years younger than me, and this was her exact expression. I stood there, a slight smile, as usual, waiting to see if she would say anything... like maybe, "You ready?" or anything at all. It never came.

So, in my best Mitt Rmoney exaggerated whitebread voice, enunciating every syllable to a ridiculous degree, I say, "Well, hello there, and good day! I would very much like to fuel up my motorbike on pump #3, please!"

The smile on her face slowly spread until she suppressed a laugh near the end. Still smiling, she shook her head slowly, took my card and said, "You're playin' with me." I closed my eyes and nodded, smiling.

"Have a good rest of the day, baby," she said, as she handed back my card.
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Idiocy.

The thangs some people will do to win a slow-as-hell, 50cc scooter.
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Cats On Scooters

I have two cats, and I love them AND scooters. So naturally, this Flickr group rawks, IMO.

And of course, my favorite -- Basement Cat on a Big Red Ugly!
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$4 Yamaha T-Max

... and, depending on the value of your time, perhaps hundreds of dollars in labor costs, but still... a papercraft T-Max sounds like a good way to get frustrated on a cold, wet weekend, indoors.

Amazingly, Yamaha has a variety of papercraft projects on their Japanese site, and not all of them are motorcycles and scooters.

h/t to ProvoScooterForums.
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When Dinosaurs Roamed The Earth

... and Michael Jackson still had his original nose, Suzuki used to make scooters under 400cc, they say.
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Why Did They Stop Sellin' 'Em?

... in the U.S.A.?
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For left rev.

(sniff-sniff) Bom-chick-a-bow-bow!
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