Peter’s neighborhood friends, Matthew and N., both have electric scooters.  Matthew’s scooter is blue, with a seat and a basket.  I’m not sure of the make, but he says he’s had it for about 8 years.  N. has a Razor E200 electric scooter.  Peter loves scooters, and he and Caroline have several scooters between them, but none are electric. 

Caroline voluntarily plans to continue working on her lessons during the summer.  I also want Peter to do some extra work during the next few months, but he wasn’t exactly thrilled at that prospect.  Since I’m not opposed to bribery in certain instances, I asked Peter what would make that idea of doing some schoolwork over the summer more palatable to him.  He considered my question for approximately 30 seconds, and replied, “an electric scooter.”

We discovered that K-Mart is currently having a sale on electric scooters.  We went there last night, and ended up purchasing a Razor E100 electric scooter on sale for around $86.  We brought it home, put it together (which consisted of assembling the handlebar stem), and put it out in the garage to charge overnight.  

The directions specify that it has to be charged for 18 hours before its first use.  Peter, of course, was counting down the hours until his new scooter would be ready to ride today.  I gave him permission to try it out a couple of hours early, and since it seemed to work okay, I gave him the go-ahead to continue riding it until the battery gave out.  He gave it a thumbs-up.