Stinking Scooters, or ASFP
"No sports" – that's what Winston Churchill said when someone asked him how he had managed to reach 90 years of age. I totally agree with him, I am not a sports fan at all, and yet there is one thing I like doing and that's bicycling.
The further you live away from a train station, the cheaper the rent gets – I guess that's true for every country in the world and in Japan as well. I half chose the place where I live, a thirty minute walk from the next station (in a hilly area), because it was (relatively) cheap and also because it forces me to do some exercise. In sunshine, wind and rain, in summer and winter I am cycling to the station and back home with my "wire donkey" as Germans sometimes affectionately call their bicycles. Long story short, I love my wire donkey and am grateful for the exercise it forces upon me.
Now there is a natural enemy of the wire donkey, which is the scooter. Jeez, I HATE scooters. They seriously impair my cycling enjoyment with their abominable exhaust gasses. Scooters are practical and cheap, I admit, but because they are cheap, scooter makers do not equip these steel donkeys with catalytic converters that happen to clean the exhaust gasses of automobiles.
Every bloody day, when I'm riding to and from the station, one to ten scooters pass me by and blow their fart (sorry for the expression) into my face… Sometimes, depending on temperature and wind, the smell of exhaust gas lingers as long as a hundred meters of distance and it takes forever until the scooter's fart has outrun the speed of my bicycling and I am pedaling inside that cursed cloud for seemingly forever, which is surely not very healthy and surely increases my cancer risk more than passive smoking for example.
People talk about CO2 gases and pollution and and and… so why does nobody do anything to clean the bloody exhaust gasses of scooters??? Whenever I am pedaling inside a scooter fart cloud, which means an average of five times a day, I am thinking about the thousands and thousands of liters of scooter fart that are being blasted into the air of our poor little planet worldwide every minute! I am tempted to found the "Anti Scooter-Fart Party", short ASFP, and lobby globally for attaching catalytic converters to scooters. Hey, I am being very tolerant here, I am not asking to abolish scooters, I am asking to improve them.
If you agree with me, answer to this post and let's design a little ASFP campaign web page!
