kicking puppies is bad

After my last post (Pimp My Scooter) I’m sure you thought that I probably couldn’t achieve new levels of ridiculousness. You were wrong. Apparently there are levels of scooter-ridiculousness that I hadn’t reached…

• Level 1: Buy a scooter. Any scooter. Everyone looks a little ridiculous riding a scooter.
• Level 2: Choose a mildly ridiculous scooter (like Atomic Fireball #141). If you are going to look silly, you might as well embrace it.
  
• Level 3: Get matching riding apparel (i.e. yellow full-face helmet)
• Level 4: Get rims custom powder coated for your mildly ridiculous scooter. Note that it is important to keep a straight face when discussing rims with the manly powder coating guys.
  
• Level 5: Decide that you don’t want to put your scooter into storage for the winter. You want to keep riding it (whenever the roads aren’t icy). Even though you realize this is probably dumb.
• Level 6: Decide that winter riding will be cold. Hell, fall riding is *already* cold. You hate the cold. Consider purchasing a scooterskirt / lap apron?
  

Yeah. I know. The lap apron is ridiculous. But I hate the cold. And the lap aprons are supposed to be really effective. I’m going to have to draw the ridiculousness line somewhere (hopefully somewhere soon before I turn into a total freak). Maybe I should skip the scooter skirt and maintain some level of dignity. Maybe not.