Jersey Mike

Our relationship began in March.

I posted an ad on Craigslist looking for the perfect match.

And a couple weeks later, we finally met at a place in York.

It was love at first sight. And now- I can’t go a day without seeing her.
My scooter is the best acquisition I’ve made in the past ten years.

I appreciate it more than my iPod. More than my disc golf discs. More than my lapt..er, maybe not as much as my laptop…but nonetheless. Owning a scooter for transportation around the city has immeasurable benefits to being stuck in a car all the time.

I know I’ve wrote of this before- but I’ve never been one to shy away from redundancy so here are a few more reasons that riding a scooter is better than driving a car-

• I get FAR fewer parking tickets on my scooter than I do in my car. Just today, in fact, I had to go down to city hall to see good ole John with his bowlcut to pay one of three parking tickets I have out there in order to stay off of the ‘boot list’. I had a few errands to handle which required pickups and dropoffs so I opted to drive my car. After paying my parking ticket, I stopped over at Roxbury’s on State, plugged every quarter I had in my pocket into the meter and went inside. I came out to smoke a bit later and sure enough- there was that ugly green envelope on my windshield. When I’m on the scooter, I just park that sucker on the sidewalk. And there ain’t no meters on the sidewalk.

• I spend five dollars per week on gas to drive many, many miles more than I could on five dollars in a car. Seriously. Five bucks. Ride it every day and get probably sixty five or seventy miles out of every one and a half gallon tank.

• Did I mention less parking tickets?

• It’s a very social way to get around. Seriously- at least twice every time I’m out, someone stops me to ask about gas mileage, license requirements, comfortable amounts of distance to drive, etc.

• You see more on a scooter. It’s amazing how much more I notice while on two wheels compared to being boxed into a car. Unfortunately, I notice the piss-poor driving habits of many drivers- specifically ones yapping on their cellphones. But it’s a great way to really see the city.