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LINA's RULES OF SCOOTER RIDING:
1. Never ride a scooter sopping wet.
2. Never ride a scooter wearing a short skirt.
3. Try to pay attention to the light signals. Otherwise, every time the driver accelerates you'll smash into him and you'll have this awkward untangling moment and then you'll worry he's thinking you're doing it on purpose.
4. If by chance you aren't abiding by rule number two, be sure to avoid eye contact with male drivers. Otherwise they'll honk enthusiastically every time your skirt flies up.
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Jenna Evans Welch (Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1))
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It's the ride of life the journey from here to there living and loving every moment like we have none to spare.
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Jess "Chief" Brynjulson (Highway Writings)
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That’s okay. I just want to live long enough to ride the scooter shopping cart at Walmart.” Mack
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Nicole James (Wolf (Evil Dead MC, #4))
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Ove gives the box a skeptical glance, as if it’s a highly dubious sort of box, a box that rides a scooter and wears tracksuit pants and just called Ove “my friend” before offering to sell him a watch.
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Fredrik Backman (A Man Called Ove)
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LINA"S RULES FOR SCOOTER RIDING:
1.Never ride a scooter sopping wet.
2. Never ride a scooter wearing a short skirt.
3. Try to pay attention to light signals. Otherwise, every time the driver accelerates you'll smash into him and you'll have this awkward untangling moment and then you'll worry he 's thinking you're doing it on purpose.
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Jenna Evans Welch (Love & Gelato (Love & Gelato, #1))
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I could have stayed holding on to Masimo and riding round forever, round and round, like that bloke on that doomed phantom boat, The Flying Dutchman. Of course there are differences—he was not on a scooter, and I don’t have a beard and I am not Dutch.
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Louise Rennison (Away Laughing on a Fast Camel (Confessions of Georgia Nicolson, #5))
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When she wasn't at Courtney's, she was perched on top of a stationary bike at spinning class. Siobhán would much rather ride a scooter. It never made sense to her why anyone would want to pedal like mad on top of something that was never going to go anywhere.
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Carlene O'Connor (Murder in an Irish Village (Irish Village Mystery, #1))
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Anyway, Ms. Rothschild wasn’t my first crush.”
“She wasn’t?”
“No. You were.”
It takes me a few seconds to process this. Even then, all I can manage is, “Huh?”
“When I first moved here, before I knew your true personality.” I kick him in the shin for that, and he yelps. “I was twelve, and you were eleven. I let you ride my scooter, remember? That scooter was my pride and joy. I saved up for it for two birthdays. And I let you take it for a ride.”
“I thought you were just being generous.”
“You crashed it and you got a big scratch on the side,” he continues. “Remember that?”
“Yeah, I remember you cried.”
“I didn’t cry. I was justifiably upset. And that was the end of my little crush.
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Jenny Han (To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before, #1))
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my scooter. So can I borrow yours?” Bella stared at me. “If you ride my scooter, what will I ride?” she asked. “You can borrow AJ’s scooter,” I said. “But what if AJ wants to ride his scooter?” “Then he can borrow Francis’s scooter.” “But what will Francis ride?” “He can ride his bike.” “Francis doesn’t have a bike,” Bella said. “Only a scooter.” I gave up. Because that girl was talking
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Robbie Hyman (ZOE ZIMMER: Neighborhood Watch Kid)
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Activities to Develop the Vestibular System Rolling—Encourage your child to roll across the floor and down a grassy hill. Swinging—Encourage (but never force) the child to swing. Gentle, linear movement is calming. Fast, high swinging in an arc is more stimulating. If the child has gravitational insecurity, start him on a low swing so his feet can touch the ground, or hold him on your lap. Two adults can swing him in a blanket, too. Spinning—At the playground, let the child spin on the tire swing or merry-go-round. Indoors, offer a swivel chair or Sit ’n Spin. Monitor the spinning, as the child may become easily overstimulated. Don’t spin her without her permission! Sliding—How many ways can a child swoosh down a slide? Sitting up, lying down, frontwards, backwards, holding on to the sides, not holding on, with legs straddling the sides, etc. Riding Vehicles—Trikes, bikes, and scooters help children improve their balance, motor planning, and motor coordination. Walking on Unstable Surfaces—A sandy beach, a playground “clatter bridge,” a grassy meadow, and a waterbed are examples of shaky ground that require children to adjust their bodies as they move. Rocking—Provide a rocking chair for your child to get energized, organized, or tranquilized.
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Carol Stock Kranowitz (The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder)
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I pull lightly on its soft silky ears, smooth down its thick fur, and distract myself so thoroughly that it’s only after quite a while that I sense eyes on me and look around to see that everyone has fallen silent and is staring at me.
“Allora?” Luca says, a mocking edge to his voice. “Vieni con me, Violetta?”
That can’t mean what I think it means. My heart catches in my throat. The cat, realizing that I’ve been distracted, jumps down from the wall, landing with an audible thud, and pads off through the gate to chase food for its dinner. Poor field mice, I think ruefully. Between the owl and the cat, they’ll have a miserable night of it.
Then I look at Luca, and have the horrible suspicion that I’m a mouse and he’s the cat, playing with me, letting me run away and then reeling me back in. His eyebrows are raised, his mouth quirked in an amused smile of inquiry.
“Sorry,” I say, not to him but to Kelly and Kendra. “I missed all of that.”
“Luca’s going to take you back to the villa,” Kendra says briskly. “’Cause we can’t all get in the jeep.”
I panic. Stone-cold panic, bringing out sweat on my palms. I can’t be alone with him. This isn’t fair.
“Kelly’s coming with us too, right?” I say overloudly. “It’ll be nicer than sitting under Paige’s feet.”
Luca nods his head sideways, and for a moment I don’t get why. Then I do, and I can’t breathe. He’s indicating the line of Vespas parked by the gatepost. He didn’t come in his car. He came on a Vespa. I’m going to ride back home on his scooter.
This is not happening.
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Lauren Henderson (Flirting in Italian (Flirting in Italian #1))
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They wouldn’t have to work every day. Instead, they could go for leisurely swims in the rooftop pool, ride around the city in their shiny scooters, then come back to their air-conditioned home and eat like kings. They would have lived a happier life, Debbie was sure of this.
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Mai Nguyen (Sunshine Nails)
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The Boomers are out in force, wrapped up in big jackets, on foot or riding mobility scooters. They push everyone aside as they barrel along the cleared sidewalk. This, in a town that still has ordinances against youth on skateboards.
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I.M. Millennial (A Year in Boomertown: A Memoir)
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kymcopartsonline
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At that time, my friend Madhwarao, a leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s intellectual circle, came to my small house in Mysore, riding pillion on somebody’s scooter. I was surprised to see him transformed. He was usually dressed in the Sangh Parivar uniform, but that day he came wearing a T-shirt and trousers. As he settled down, Madhwarao said, ‘You must be surprised at my clothes. I have gone underground now.’ I asked him a question then. ‘Why do you oppose Indira Gandhi? I just don’t understand it. She dismissed the DMK government that was inimical to the Aryans. She enforced family planning programmes on Muslims to prevent them from having too many children. She split Pakistan and facilitated the creation of Bangladesh. She got India the atom bomb. By annexing Sikkim, she expanded the country. She made sure trains ran on time. The idea of Savarkar’s India was reinforced through Indira Gandhi. Why then do you oppose her?’ An intellectual like Madhwarao had no answer to this. A few years later, when Vajpayee, whom Govindacharya described as ‘just a mask’, was the prime minister, some prominent RSS leaders said that Indira Gandhi was our true leader.
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U.R. Ananthamurthy (Hindutva or Hind Swaraj)
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She would even ride a scooter. and toot its horn. Everyone knew when Liberty was on the stage.
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Desiree Milonas-King (Liberty the Circus Cat)
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Life was not a rollercoaster and you did not just have to ride it. It was more like one of those rental scooters that had popped up around the city: mostly fun, sometimes unpredictable, but frequently impossible to control and occasionally trying to kill you.
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Lindsey Kelk (The Christmas Wish)
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He let me ride on his electric scooter, but I crashed it.
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Vicky McClure (Castle Rock Mystery Crew (The Jase Files, #1))
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The real problem is posed by those countrymen who are complete slaves to machines from a shockingly young age. All exceptions aside, it is impossible to make the average Finnish country dweller of over fifteen years of age ride a bicycle, ski or row — or even exercise in the fields. The spell of the car and its antecedent — the scooter — is unbelievable. A young man will travel a hundred metres to the sauna by car; as this involves backing the car, reversing and manoeuvring, opening and shutting garage doors, it is not a matter of saving time. In the case of farmers, moreover, the more technology advances — every sack of fertiliser now being lifted by a tractor, the spread and removal of manure being a mechanical feat — the more will their physical activities be limited to taking a few steps in the garden and climbing onto the benches of saunas. Lumberjacks have already been replaced by multi-tasking machines, while fishermen lever their trawl sacks with a winch, haul their nets with a lever, and gather their Baltic herrings with an aspirator from open fish traps.
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Pentti Linkola (Can Life Prevail?)
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When entering a corner, it is important to have all your braking done before you start the turn. You should enter the turn at the desired, safe speed to negotiate the turn, and then gently accelerate out of the turn.
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Alan C. Hearnshaw (Proficient Scootering: A Comprehensive Guide to Safe, Efficient and Enjoyable Scooter Riding)
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What I enjoy is music since it’s a rich world of story in sound. I love instrumental pieces, especially classical. I would love if others listened with me. I like to walk, or scooter, or ride my bike. I need to move and to release energy kinesthetically. I love swimming, to jump on a trampoline, and recently to work out. If someone played with me this way, I’d try to follow. I can’t explain why my senses prefer movement, but I’m resigned to it. I’m interested in cooking too, so I enjoy doing that.
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Ido Kedar (Ido in Autismland: Climbing Out of Autism's Silent Prison)
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Singal also cited an anonymous clinician from the GIC who expressed concern that trans children who want to desist might be pressured into remaining trans if their parents get involved in advocacy work, if they come out to their school and classmates, and so forth. As a parent, this strikes me as deeply confusing. Our basement is littered with the toys and hobbies of ages past, and while that can indeed be annoying, at no point did I consider forcing my daughter to play more with her expensive handmade doll or ride her scooter. To be a child or adolescent is to be in perpetual flux, picking up hobbies, interests, and identities to find out what feels right, what feels like home. This can happen with sports, with music, and yes, with gender and sexuality, but at no point does any good parent insist that their child keep their hair blue or stay on the soccer team long after their interest has withered.
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Jonathan Foiles ((Mis)Diagnosed: How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health)