Week 5: A Scooter, a Scooter, My Kingdom for a Scooter

The house is locked tight and I got my gear together for the road. I just need one last thing before I leave; a scooter. Figure it is the best way to travel quickly while being able to maneuver around abandoned vehicles and such. Zombies move like mimes stuck in slow-mo so they shouldn’t be too much of a problem.

I know a family down the street that had one; used to see their teenager driving it around all the time. I’m going to see if I can “acquire” it from them. Hopefully they have gone and abandoned the scooter.

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The family was still there and so was the scooter. Apparently money is useless and we are back to the barter system. And it is also apparent that I suck at the barter system. For the scooter I had to trade my generator, two flashlights, a box of batteries and half the gasoline I had salvaged for the trip.

I did manage to work in a condition that if I return the scooter I get the generator back. I should probably feel uneasy by the way they all laughed before agreeing to that term but I’ll take what I can get.