For as long as I can remember, I’ve always loved to be an early adopter. I always loved to have the next big thing, before anyone else. To have the kind of object that people would stop you and ask you about.
Electric Skateboards are definitely that thing. Want proof? One of my most favorited tweets on twitter @maulakai is the one I made after first commuting to work on my Emad board.
I admit, I’m lucky to be able to make the commute to work from my home. I live only three miles away. When you look at the box my board came in, it claims to have a range of 7 to 10 miles.
That’s what really kills me. When I first got my board, it’s range proved to be only 3.5 miles. After sending it back to the shop for repairs, it now gets less than three miles! Which means, I can no longer use it to commute to work. What a bummer! Emad still isn’t returning phone calls or emails. They made sun a fun product, but ruined it by lying about it’s specs and providing an “asshole” level of customer service. Because of that, despite a very fun product, I can’t recommend it to anyone who asks me. And every day, people ask me about it.
Today, I took the bus onto campus, and then rode my board from there. It’s a compromise, I guess. But I still hate myself for promoting the damn Emad board, that never lived up to it’s promises.
What I do love, however, is the comments I get. Every day. From people who just happen to see me walk into the building, carrying my vehicle with me. This is something straight out of the Jetsons.
Today, a valet who saw me enter the building asked, “Really?”
The other day, I had an onlooker comment, “So you’re not *really* a skateboarder? You don’t push?”
No, I don’t kick. I don’t even know how to, really.
The joy of carving up the sidewalk, just before an after work, is well worth the pain of lugging that tank of a skateboard onto the bus, and into the building. But the puzzled looks and random comments are like the cherry on top. I look forward to the day when I’m not the only one carving concrete.
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