New look – same Zip

If you’re a frequent visitor to the site, you’ll notice a new look today.

We did some research and apparently this site receives visitors from Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom, Singapore and Hong Kong. Domestically we’ve had visitors from California, New Mexico, Texas and New Hampshire.

With all that traffic, we figured it was probably a good idea to spruce the place up. We’re not done, but it’s a start.

We are always looking for new things to post. If you have scooter stories or scooter pictures, let us know. You can send them to zipeditor@gmail.com

Thanks.
-Vince

BWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

So, last week I was sound asleep when all the sudden, through the dead silence of night, I heard this BWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA sound. I woke up and thought, “Is that somebody just holding down their car horn in front of my house?”

Seriously, it was like in the movies when someone dies behind the wheel of their car and their head falls forward, landing on the horn. I looked at the clock – 12:28 a.m. Sure, to most people that isn’t too late, but I’m a loser who wakes up at 5:30 so I had already been asleep for a while. I also thought the mysterious horn was kinda creepy.

I looked out my window and didn’t see anything. Unfortunately, the BWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA sound had continued without stop. I opened my front door and the horn got about three times louder. Apparently that extra insulation I installed in my house really works. Just as I started walking toward my neighbor’s house, the horn stopped. I looked around and didn’t see anyone anywhere up or down the street so I decided to go back to bed.

About an hour later the horn came back, but only for about 20 seconds and then stopped again. I went back to bed.

About an hour later, the horn came back once more – for 10 straight minutes. This time my neighbor came out. Apparently it was his van. I watched from my window as he kept clicking his car alarm. It didn’t work. Then he tried starting his engine about six times. That didn’t work. Then he tried opening and slamming his hood for some reason. That didn’t work either. Finally, he decided to unhook his battery. That’s when he figured out that it wasn’t his van after all -- it was his truck making the noise. I guess it was so loud and he was so out of it that he didn’t notice.

Anyway, he unhooked that battery too and everyone went back to sleep.

So, you are probably wondering what makes this a scooter-related story. Well, if my neighbor had owned a scooter and not a truck, the piercing sound in the middle of the night would have been a MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE, not a BWHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. And, I think there’s a good chance I could have slept through a MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

The end.

-Vince