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Bird and Lime will always have a special place in my heart for inspiring the last silly season political debate before covid in our town. The very first day re
by mherdeg 4y ago
Bird and Lime will always have a special place in my heart for inspiring the last silly season political debate before covid in our town.
The very first day rental escooters were legal in town the company hosted demonstration had someone fall off in the town hall parking lot and require hospitalization. It was all so silly and things only went sideways from there. I saved tens of minutes over the course of a summer taking them on one route and I got two free helmets in the mail.
Leafblowers, historic districts, rental scooters... There has to be some focal point for the nervous municipal energy whether or not there's anything to focus it on. Things got deadly serious during the school reopening discussion and they never really went back to the way they were before.
Pour one out for the micromobility startups' dreams and may whatever comes next be as delightfully odd as those things were.
- davidw 4y agoBird Bikes were a regular feature on Nextdoor where I live. Lots of hand wringing about them while completely ignoring the lifted pickups with hoods taller than most children.
- Fatnino 4y agoYou mean taller than many adults.
- Freedom2 4y ago> Pour one out for the micromobility startups' dreams and may whatever comes next be as delightfully odd as those things were. Could you elaborate on this? I'm not sure what Homebrew has to do with rental scooters...
- rolenthedeep 4y ago"pour one out" is a reference to pouring an alcoholic drink on the ground to respect the memory of someone who died and can't take the drink. Poster is implying that startups like bird and lime are dead or dying. This is basically just "Fs in chat for rental scooters"
- dxscorp 4y agoWas this Brookline? I vaguely remember something like this