The Great Scooter Adventure

We rented our scooter, which was delivered to our hotel along with a quick introduction to the operation of said scooter. After Tom took it for a trial spin we jumped on and off we went. We were almost an hour into our ride and we had just made our third or fourth stop (seeing the Fairy chimneys, think Grand Canyon.... Get out, walk around, look, get back in the car, drive a little way, repeat...). We finished getting the overview of an area and jumped on the scooter, drove about 200 yards downhill to the area where we would see close up the things we had just seen from above. When Tom went to turn the scooter off....... No key..... What? How could it be running with no key? Upon closer inspection we realize there is a key... Sort of.... In the ignition is 1/2 of a key. Huh??? We got on the scooter, drove 200 yards and the metal key was somehow broken off in the ignition??? Ya. Try to explain THAT to the rental company. Well, the good news is, we didn't have to. A helpful Turkish man walked up as Tom was fishing in his pocket for the business card from the rental company. The Turkish man took over and called the company, basically told them our key was missing and they jumped on their scooter and rushed over with a new key.

Upon examining the situation the guy (it was a man and woman from the company) bent over and tried to remove the broken off key.... With his teeth ....(no friends, I am not kidding you). When that didn't work (can we all say DUH!) he stood up, said something in Turkish that I am sure was "maybe I had better try pliers" and then proceeded to try his teeth again, just in case the situation had somehow changed. (at this time I ask you to try to picture some guy, bent over the scooter, overthe handle bars, head on the dashboard ((what else would you call it?)) with his mouth on the ignition) Finally he ran off and found a pair of pliers, pulled the key right out, gave us the duplicate, smiled and said goodbye and rode off. Easy peasy.