Getting Around

The park that we live in has its own golf course. So most of the people in the park get around in their own golf carts. The place that we bought didn't come with a golf cart. So for the first few weeks we were here, we got everywhere by walking.

Barb thought this was inconvenient. We thought of buying a golf cart but thought it was too expensive. Barb's friend Marsha had a electric scooter that she was selling at a reasonable price. So Barb borrowed it for a few days to try it out.

As luck would have it, she got a flat tire. Barb thought the tire might have got a puncture from the spikey vine that is on the trellis beside our driveway.

Barb decided that she really didn't want the scooter but felt it was her duty to fix the flat tire before she gave the it back to Marsha.

This wasn't easy. First, she had to find out where to get a tire for this unusual scooter. She couldn't find anything locally. She checked the internet and talked to a number of places.  She eventually found a fellow in Texas that sold the tire at a  reasonably price and would ship it here. 

Barb also needed to figure out how to change the tire which also wasn't easy because the scooter motor was attached to the wheel and there were important wires in the way.

She waited and waited for the tire to come and it never came. Marsha and her husband got impatient. So they took the scooter back with the flat tire. Marsha's husband had it fixed right away. It didn't need a new tire at all. It just had a leak in the nozzle of the inner tube. The fix didn't cost anything.

Fortunately, the fellow in Texas hadn't shipped the tire yet. So Barb was able to cancel it.

We eventually bought a golf cart but that is another story.