All Hail Vespa Miami

Edwin called this afternoon and the gods must have tweaked my ear because my cellphone was actually on at the time. My Vespa is fixed though Eddie was unable to let me know what had gone wrong. I hardly care. I am so excited to be getting my machine back. I now have to wait until Wednesday to haul the trailer up to Miami to bring my GTS home.

I have been mulling over reliability issues, worrying about all those modern black boxes lurking beneath the curves of my vintage red Vespa, wishing it was the simple old two stroke of a vintage ( which in reality suffers from its own reliability issues...); will the lambda sensor go next? or the electronic ignition? or the CDI sender again? Argh! The warranty runs out in November. Double argh!!

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My wife sat me down and said "keep the Vespa because you love it so much." And I do. The space beneath the house has been empty every time I go downstairs and it isn't there. I haven't driven out to the beach, I haven't wandered any back roads since the scooter went into the shop two weeks ago. I have been, in a word, dejected. But no more. Scooter in the Sticks said trust the scooter, not the mechanic. He's right, dammit, and I shall.

Now all I have to do is not bust a gut waiting for Wednesday.