Just Do It!

If someone gives you an order, or tells you what to do, and you do what they tell you, then you obey them. If you don’t do it, you disobey them, and if you do that, then you are disobedient. Sometimes children, especially young ones, can be disobedient, but adults usually aren’t. Now look at this picture.

I saw this while walking home from the supermarket this morning. It’s a pink flamingo scooter lying on its side. You can see some words in capital letters on the underside of the deck (that’s the flat part of the scooter where you stand when riding one). Before today, I didn’t know that there was anything written there, but you live and learn.

These words ask the rider to park the scooter in an upright position so that the next rider can easily hop on. However, it looks like the last rider of this scooter was disobedient.

BTW, this scooter company uses the colour pink since that bird is pink because of the food it eats. Take a look at the words below. They all end in the letter o. In English, if there’s more than one, we add either “s” or “es” to make the word plural. Only some of the words in the photo add “es”. Which ones?

Later on, I saw another upended scooter from another company, but this time, there was no writing on the underside of the deck.