Kids on Wheels

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I suppose I gave my folks a pretty hard time about it. But I sort of had to. I mean I’d always run around with the four of them, Mitch, Bobby, Arn and Del, and this year they all get motor scooters, and where does that leave me? On a bike with the little kids, that’s where. Mitch was the first one to get one. He used the money he earned last summer and bought a beat-up one, and then he really put it in shape. His people don’t care much what he does, and that gives him plenty of freedom. Bobby got a brand new red one next, and even though it was brand new, it still wouldn’t go as fast as the one Mitch fixed up. Bobby’s people buy him any old thing he wants. He just yells until he gets it. He runs things at his house and he sure knows it. Then at Thanksgiving Arn’s grandmother bought him one. He’d told us he was working on her, and once he got it his folks sort of had to let him use it. That left just me and Del on bikes and pretty gloomy about the prospects of getting a motor scooter. When the other three were feeling good, they’d let us take one around the block and that was about all. And sometimes we could go along, hanging on behind, but not often.

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