Vespas

Last week we sold our Vespas. It was very sad. We let our practical selves rule over our sense of adventure! We both had less than 400 miles on our bikes in a little over 3 years, so we figured it was costing us about $100 a mile to ride them! We also decided that since I'm always an accident waiting to happen, even walking on flat ground, we were flirting with disaster every time we got on them (after all, there was the broken leg in motorcycle safety class!).

It was a good time to sell. Scooter dealers can't keep stock, so demand for used scooters is high. A young man, Scott, bought mine to use as transportation. It took him 4 days to borrow all of the money he needed and he was thrilled to have a way to get to work. A lady named Kimmy bought Shaun's pink and white unit....mostly because she loved pink and she thought the matching jacket and helmut were just over the top!!!! It took her about 90 minutes to borrow all of the money at 9:30pm from her relatives. They were all small business owners and cleaned their tills for her that evening. Kimmy was clearly about the recreation and fashion so we related well :) The evening was bittersweet--we loved the Vespas, but in our retirement we're making tradeoffs in how we spend our time and money and what risks we are willing to take.