Segway Naysayers
Ok. Yesterday was UBER FUN! We went to Florida Everglides and first they show you a video and then you spend half an hour learning how to use the Segway. Then you go on a two-hour tour of the historic district of Sarasota. It was great. Almost everybody stops and looks and makes a big deal.
But… of course… this is reality… so there has to be a few jerks.
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I just had to get it out of my system. ]]
During our two-hour tour there were two different jerks who yelled at us at two seperate times:
“Look at those lazy jerks, why can’t they just ride bikes?”
“Too lazy to walk?!”
It amazes me that no matter what, there will always be people who try to ruin it for you.
Then I went to Amazon.com and got a shocker. If you go to amazon and look at the customer reviews for the segway, you’ll see that there are a bunch of “customers” there at Amazon who posted negative things about it. Oh, no, they’re not segway owners, they’re just people who hate them on principal. Why???
Oh yes, I’ve heard it all (all the negative reviews @ amazon) and all those arguments are bullshit.
Why not walk?
A) Because it’s fun.
B) It’s a great alternative for those who can’t walk far.
C) It’s a great way to take a tour of a city.
If you own one you are lazy.
A) Oh, and if you own a car you are lazy, or if you own a bike, or a scooter, or a golf cart, or a remote control! People are hypocrites.
Go get some exercise instead.
A) And I’m sure you do not have ONE SINGLE ounce of unecessary body fat on your body ANYWHERE???
B) Do you walk to work?
C) Do you ride your bicycle to the grocery store? I think not, hypocrite.
D) I do go for walks and go to the gym, what I do in my spare time for fun is my business.
They’re expensive and there are starving people in this world.
A) And when was the last time YOU gave to charity?
B) And I’m sure you are driving the absolute CHEAPEST, car you could find? And did you give the money you saved by buying the cheapest car in the world to charity???
C) ***I WAS that starving child. I WAS that homeless child who lived in a car at one point and at another point lived in a shack and at another point lived with relatives because we had no home of our own. So it’s MY TURN if I want to buy an expensive toy with MY HARD-EARNED money. So go ^$#@! yourself.
It doesn’t save lives or help sick people. (Yes, that’s one persons’ reason for hating it!)
A) Uh… and what of the things that YOU own do that?!?!?
B) Do you own the smallest black and white tv and did you send the money you saved on that to the American Cancer Society???
Fat lazy cops are using them instead of walking.
A) Yeah, and fat lazy cops use cars, bicycles and horses. Go attack the bike manufacturers and horse manufacturers (God) while you are at it, you asshole.
Fat americans now have a device that “replaces walking”!
A) Yeah, we’ve had them all along. They’re called CARS and BICYCLES. Get over it.
Has no “practical use”.
A) That’s a flat-out lie. There are COUNTLESS “practical uses” for the thing, but if *I* buy one, and I plan on it (!), it’ll be because it’s FUN! It is morally wrong to buy something because it’s fun? No! Do you own one video game? One funny book? Oh, it’s expensive, but so are your fast computers, plasma screen tvs, UNECESSARY sport utes,l and a year’s worth of unecessary beer and cigarettes. I can’t believe the hypocracy!
“It’s the same as a Hummer.”
A) A Hummer is $50,000 or more. A segway is nowhere near that.
B) A hummer guzzles gas driving up the demand and price of gas and feeds the oil nations, a segway doesn’t.
C) A hummer is so big on the road that you can see around it, and to be a safe driver you have to watch several cars ahead as you drive, but you can’t do that behind a Hummer. A segway doesn’t endanger anyone’s life on the road or sidewalk.
D) A hummer, if it hits you, is going to kill you. A person on a segway is not going to kill you if, IF they hit you.
I can’t believe the stupid arguments people have against the segway just on pricipal! All the ones who complain haven’t even tried one let alone own one. It’s ignorance talking. And for sure a good dose of jealousy!
…. There. Now I feel better.