> > > Scooters are for kids, dude.
> >
> > Apparently *some*body's got bees in their underwear....
>
> A popular misconception. For some reason, people are confused by the term. A 19-year-old told me he had a couple of old scooters he would sell, and when I went to look they were toys made for the sidewalk, with no power but your foot.
>
> "I have a scooter" can mean an old dirt bike, a small motorcycle, a moped, a motorized bicycle, a powered wheel chair, a mini bike, a Segway, and just about any toy with two wheels.
>
> It comes with the territory.
> Howard

I thought the same way before reading Howard's posts here. I thought a scooter was just the foot-powered kind, and they were in fact named scooters because you "scoot" them along with your foot.