BURGER SCOOT

  • “Minimum wage, we’ll chalk it up to that”

    “Minimum wage, we’ll chalk it up to that”

    On August 10, 2018, Richard “Beebo” Russell, an overworked, underpaid ground service agent at SeaTac, stole an empty Horizon Air Q400. After seventy-five minutes in the air, he crashed on a desolate part of Ketron Island in the south of the Puget Sound killing himself. There were no other casualties. The mainstream media reported this… Read more

  • The Bitter Incongruity of Old Man Problems & and the Triumph Bonneville in the Window

    The Bitter Incongruity of Old Man Problems & and the Triumph Bonneville in the Window

    Mike, my now retired scooter mechanic, once told me, “Most of my customers have owned a bike (motorcycle) sometime in their past. They are usually the ones who later buy a scooter and stick with it. It’s the ones who started out on a scooter that usually step up to a bike.” I was inquiring… Read more

  • Just what I’ve been saying. Well, sort of.

    I’m the worst person you want on your debate team. A couple of years of Toastmasters didn’t make much of a dent in the problem. This person pitfall is made worse when the subject is politics in general and advocating socialism and criticising capitalism specifically. I get anxious, frustrated, angry when my listener thinks socialism… Read more

  • Fearless

    I was sitting in a café when I saw her This was not the first time–I had no idea it would be the last. She was on her bike; sitting up straight! Gliding through the plaza. I gasped as she rode through the rushing crowd–effortlessly. She was too graceful to fall. Her hair was a… Read more

  • My First Ride & My Last Ride on a Jump Bike

    My First Ride & My Last Ride on a Jump Bike

    I have had some bad luck lately when it comes to commuting vehicles. My bicycle has been in the shop for two weeks with many problems to be resolved including replacing parts the shop does not have in stock. I made the fateful decision to surrender it to the shop thinking that I would always… Read more

  • An Unqualified Cupping of Port of Mokha’s Al-Jabel

    I like coffee. I probably average about two to three cups a day. I’m not a connoisseur: my tastes are wide-ranging–I’m not too picky. I prefer higher quality beans prepared expertly at high-end coffee houses, but I don’t mind drinking my wife and son’s more common beans from Peet’s or Peerless. The brewing systems are… Read more