View Full Version : two for the price of one
tater
05-04-2006, 08:08 AM
why make two new threads when they are easily made into one. yay!
so i took my 5-hour pre-req driving course yesterday and i took one of the last seats in the room. it just happened to be next the only girl in the class wearing a gir t-shirt. and she wasn't a crazy gir fan either, just an awesome person. it made me happy. :)
having recently returned to my gmail account, i've discovered that i have 100 invites. if anyone wants one, just PM me with an addy.
I intend to eventually take a course that will grant me a motorcycle license, seeing as how they are cheap as hell to fuel up and I have more experience on two-wheeled vehicles than cars. However, given my history of procrastination and blatant laziness, who knows how long this will take.
On a related note, the inside of my car is wet as hell due to some form of leak. It is rather uncomfortable.
Sally
05-04-2006, 01:32 PM
Lordy, I have driver's ed next month. Do you have to have a motercycle licence to drive a vespa? Or vespa-like vehicles. I don't really want a car, because I don't venture very far from the house. That, and they're less ecpensive then cars. Yay.
exemplary citizen
05-04-2006, 01:46 PM
The answer is yes. I had a Vespa, and I had to get a motorcycle license. Depending on your state, you may have to be 18 to do that.
I've always wanted a CDL but that would require me to get off my lazy ass and finally get a driver's license.
Sally
05-04-2006, 05:12 PM
I don't think you have to be 18 here. My friend's got a moped type deal and he's like...17 I think. I dunno, I could be wrong.
Linzoy
05-07-2006, 04:32 PM
But mopeds never go faster than 35 MPH, and they're probably safer than scooters. Scooters have those tiny wheels and they have bad weight distribution.
I intend to eventually take a course that will grant me a motorcycle license, seeing as how they are cheap as hell to fuel up and I have more experience on two-wheeled vehicles than cars. However, given my history of procrastination and blatant laziness, who knows how long this will take.
On a related note, the inside of my car is wet as hell due to some form of leak. It is rather uncomfortable.
You shouldn't get a motorcycle just because you have experience with bikes. There are things you'd never consider a serious problem on a bike or car that would send you flying off your motorcycle, like spots of oil, loose gravel, and potholes. Motorcycling is a skill on it's own. If you're lazy enough that you don't feel like wearing your helmet one day and you die it's going to make it harder for everyone else (me) to get a motorcycle without everyone thinking they're ignorant or have a so called death wish.
I remember my mom told my dad that my uncle had a death wish after he died in a drunken motorcycle accident. I think that's a pretty disgusting thing to say to someone who's brother just died.
I mean, I've ridden motorized two-wheeled vehicles, and I have had me some fantastic tumblings off of them by means of sand/rocks and the like. Due to my copious head-injuries, I would be too paranoid to ride one sans helmet anyway. But in any case, I intend to take a class that'll teach me some road-faring techniques anyway, because I have a thing about setting myself up for ironic deaths.
My dad rode a motercycle (a nice harley, sans helmet) and then stopped one day because during that week he had seen first hand at least 3 horrible grusome fatal accidents, and some other ones where the guy riding got off pretty bad. (Coma, crippled and the like.) I remember he said one of them involved a semi-truck and decapitation. He said after that it would be pushing his luck so he sold his bike.
Sally
05-08-2006, 01:39 PM
See, that's why I won't get on my grandpa's bike. With my luck, it will be the only time something goes wrong and I'll fall off and die.
Micah
05-08-2006, 01:42 PM
Driving a regular car on the highway is nerve-wracking enough.
My friend just told me that a couple of years ago so 23 year old and his girlfriend got in a wreak outside her house. He got decapitated she got thown in a ditch and a little busted up but she lived...
That's enough to keep me from riding on a bike ever.
Micah
05-08-2006, 02:04 PM
Having a head is pretty cool I guess.
Sally
05-08-2006, 04:58 PM
Driving a regular car on the highway is nerve-wracking enough.
Yeah, that's why if I ever had to, for some ungodly reason, go somewhere that required a highway, I'd take the car. 18 scare the shit out of me.
Forever Finite
05-08-2006, 05:15 PM
My dad rode a motercycle (a nice harley, sans helmet) and then stopped one day because during that week he had seen first hand at least 3 horrible grusome fatal accidents, and some other ones where the guy riding got off pretty bad. (Coma, crippled and the like.) I remember he said one of them involved a semi-truck and decapitation. He said after that it would be pushing his luck so he sold his bike.
that reminds me of something my psychology prof witnessed when he was ten years old. he was at an intersection and an 18-wheeler stopped at a red light, but a motorcyclist behind him didn't stop in time and his head was chopped off by the truck load as the bike zipped under it.
Micah
05-08-2006, 05:54 PM
Wow, so much decapitation in this thread.
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