Stop Light Feud

My pride and joy in silver and black. The one with the basket is Jim's.


Most days after work I get home, change into workout clothes and hop on my scooter and either hike garvin or run around the lakes and everything goes smoothly but sweaty. Well today I was on my ride home at the stop light and another scooter pulls up next to me. The only time I share the lane on my scooter is when Jim is on his harley and I laugh the whole time because it is my dorky little scooter that goes "beep beep" and his tough harley that you almost need ear plugs to stand near it-and we look very odd going down the road. I don't like sharing lanes with scooters I don't know and this has never happened to me so I immediately get uncomfortable. I keep looking straight ahead and the lady on the scooter snaps "You don't wear a helmet huh?" and I respond "no" even though the answer was quite obvious. Then she snaps "WELL I'm not going to say anything" and I wanted to say "Thanks" but I just kept looking straight ahead. The lady had on a complete helmet, a thick jacket, and pants and her clothing was clearly not for warmth. THEN she snaps "You know that is really stupid." At this point the light couldn't turn green fast enough and I was afraid I wasn't going to be able to keep my mouth shut but I just kept looking straight ahead.
Now in Winona the speed limit is 30 mph everywhere, there is a stop light or stop sign every 3 blocks, and there are so many scooters around Winona from all the students and such that a person would have to be from Antarctica to not be comfortable with them on the road so no I do not wear a helmet on my 50cc scooter. Don't worry...I do wear one on a motorcycle.