Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Live free; Ride hard

I got this vespa for my birthday two weeks ago:


I was going to join the Black Rabbits, this local motorcycle gang:


The moto came with a pink seat and pink handlebars. But it didn't come with a license plate, and we didn't realize that meant we couldn't ever get a license plate for it — ensuring inevitable confusing, awkward, hand-flapping run-ins with the local bribe-happy cops who care about that sort of thing.

So after riding it just a handful of times (including one long, glorious dash through countryside backroads during which I ran out of gas in the middle of a rice farm), we sold it back yesterday to Dong — the guy with the motorcycle shop in our front yard.

I never even named it. The Black Rabbits approve of my municipal obedience.

4 comments:

arbuckle said...

How tragic.

It seems that the pink would have been a nice addition to the Black Rabbits gang.

the kilbrides said...

you lived the dream, if only for a few weeks. sigh.

Unknown said...

That sucks.

Scott said...

The man...always keeping you down...sorry dude