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Alex Morgan of the US Women's National Soccer Team shares her scooter ownership experience.
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Nice story...thanks for sharing!
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Nice story. I hope she's still riding.
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Amusing (and slightly harrowing) story. Also hope she (and possibly hubby) are still scooting.
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And we take two lessons from this story:

1) Don't buy a Chinese scooter-in-a-box

2) Don't buy your college age kid a scooter
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Larrytsg wrote:
And we take two lessons from this story:

1) Don't buy a Chinese scooter-in-a-box

2) Don't buy your college age kid a scooter
Pretty much. OTOH, college is for learning.... Nerd emoticon
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Larrytsg wrote:
And we take two lessons from this story:

1) Don't buy a Chinese scooter-in-a-box

2) Don't buy your college age kid a scooter
Ha, yup. On our campus pretty much only the athletes ride scooters...not sure what's up with that.
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fledermaus wrote:
Larrytsg wrote:
And we take two lessons from this story:

1) Don't buy a Chinese scooter-in-a-box

2) Don't buy your college age kid a scooter
Pretty much. OTOH, college is for learning.... Nerd emoticon
I thought it was the kid who was supposed to be learning, not Dad. Of course, this is spoken as the father of a university student. And I learned a lot.....
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