Despite my lifelong bluster about being a hard-nosed realist with an analytical thoughts, in reality, I’m a hopeless romantic. Recently, I fell in love with a picture in an advert. I was on the web, studying about how electrical automobiles may ease international warming, when a sidebar caught my eye. It was an image of a person on a pink motor scooter, using down a quiet nation highway, bordered by pasture and canopied by timber. He was smiling beatifically as solely a male mannequin can, and the caption mentioned, “There is only silence when you ride one of our electric scooters.” Well, I stay on a quiet nation highway, and I started to think about how nice it could be to experience silently down my highway whereas doing my half to ease international warming. I may even experience quietly the two miles into city to choose up a loaf of bread for my spouse. I determined our household had an pressing want for a silent, electrical motor scooter – a pink one. I obtained out my bank card.
The scooter arrived in a tightly-packed steel crate. I was desperate to take it out for a experience, however the climate put a damper on my plans. Several days later, the solar got here out and the highway dried off. I was stunned – and a bit of frightened – by the torque the electrical motor supplied. The subsequent step was to get my scooter registered and licensed so I may experience it legally.
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Chuck Avery is a retired instructor who grew up in Connersville’s Bucktown neighborhood.