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I got to think Le Artiste has been hanging around the Atlanta University Center before he did the last page. The kids have scooters EVERYwhere, like flies around a turd they are. Everything from really cheeep Heatrhen Chinee 50cc smoky little things to fairly nice (expensive) Honda automatics and everything in between. I walked three blocks down to the student lunch strip (Broad Street) today and counted twenty five of them parked on the way one place and another. And it was a grey drizzly day. sunshine would have way more.

--lj

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Sometimes I wonder what tomorrow's gonna bring
When I think about my dirty life and times.
---Warren Zevon

I saw much the same thing when last I was in Hawaii but it was tourist rentals. I'd overhear some of the local taxicab drivers darkly muttering their wishes to just run them over. I think what made it worse was the tendency of the scooters to drive in loosely straggled packs of poorly skilled riders. Just being a pedestrian observer, I agreed with the locals... the part about how annoying the yahoos on the scooters were, not the wish to bumper-bounce them.

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Mate and I did the Big Island for a week a while back (won a contest) and it included a car rental. Nearly aced out several scooters.
And the only time I rented one was back in The Day when Ft Lauderdale was The Place To Go on spring break. Ran over a cop's foot with it. Long line of traffic on the beach. He's like "HAY BOY COME BACK HERE" and I'm like gun it down the other side of the line Anybody could run like that and yell at the same time wasn't hurt badly. He wasn't up to scooter speed.

--lj

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Sometimes I wonder what tomorrow's gonna bring
When I think about my dirty life and times.
---Warren Zevon