Segway - The Gyroscopic Icebreaker June 24, 2005
Posted by atharkhan in : Humor, Personal, Tech , trackbackCommuting has never been this much fun! This week, I rode my new Segway Human Transporter to work every day. In fact, I wanted to ride the thing so bad that I would wake up earlier than usual just to get to work.
It was interesting to get pretty much the same reaction from everyone who saw it. The first thing they said was “You IDIOT!!” The very next sentence? “Can I ride it?” ha ha ha…
I guess I don’t care too much about whether people think its a “sensible” purchase or not. All I know is that I had promised myself last year that if I passed my first year in law school with decent grades, I would do something completely indulgent for myself.
I am still getting used to being stared at when I am riding this thing. I try not to make eye contact because it does look a bit dorky. This morning was funny. This big (and I mean BIG) guy with Tattoos saw me “gliding” down the street to work and gave me the hitchhiker thumb signal. When I got close to him, he asked if he could ride it. Sure, why not. He rode it around the parking lot next to Carl’s Jr. for a couple minutes while his two buddies (also tattooed Harley types) watched. It was funny to watch these biker looking guys giggling like kids.
I got to work around 9 am today and some of the engineers that i work with saw me on it. Man! That started the biggest “Segway Stampede” ever. It was so much fun… it was a bunch of guys riding this geeky looking thing and couldnt stop smiling. I think I must have answered “How fast does it go?” and “How long does the battery last?” about a few hundred times today. Still all in all it was a lot of fun.
I would ride it to work tomorrow too but I have to go somewhere with a friend at lunch time so I will have to drive my car. Come on. Two guys on a Segway? I dont think so.
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that sounds like fun!
-ava