'Funny' And 'Not So Funny'

FUNNY

-watching a guy ("that guy"), who thought he was pretty cool on our tour yesterday, try and show his friends how good he was at riding a Segway before our tour started in our 'practice alley'.

-watching that same guy, in the same practice alley, run into the wall and fall off his Segway. TWICE.

-nearing the end of our tour, looking up and watching that SAME GUY accidentally hit his wife's Segway with his own, as we were going up 15th street by the Treasury Building, and seeing BOTH of them fly off their Segways. (it was all slow motion...but I remember seeing them crossing in the air and one of the Segway's also flying through the air...horizontally...)

-hearing that same guy tell the tour guide, Karen, that he didn't want her to put anything 'non-herbal' on his severly scraped up knee as she was about to clean up his wound.

-hearing Karen ask, stunned, if he wanted her to just clean it with water....

-finally, hearing that SAME GUY blame his wife for the accident.


NOT SO FUNNY

-turning my own Segway over to the scraped-up rider so they could finish the tour, and dragging his broken Segway 6 1/2 blocks back to the City Segway Tours office.

-the number of times I heard "Aren't you supposed to ride those things?" or "Those work better if you ride them." as I dragged it down G Street on a humid October afternoon.