Segway Herders

There is nothing like the intuitively incorrect to pique a person’s curiosity. The genuinely odd seems to solicit participation in finding resolution to what’s wrong with a picture, like a whole theatre full of people all leaning in unison to an IMAX roller coaster scene. We mimic it seems, in an effort to understand and relieve the tension in our world, what we feel may be going on in what we see; briefly existential and enthralled whether we like it or not. My point? – Segways, a tangent on individual human transport that is in all ways strange to watch.
Visually, a Segway redefines the meaning of the phrase “ intuitively incorrect”. The more I watch them, the more I watch them; they never feel right, they always look wrong, and the more they feel wrong, the more I watch them.
When I spend any amount of time around even one of them, I find myself leaning in sympathy with the riders plight; struggling always for correctness. This activity on behalf of Segway herders can sometimes get me in trouble with folks that I’m with, they feel neglected. The idea of actually trying one out for myself has always intrigued me, and considering how tired I get vicariously saving others from imminent disaster I really should go for it.
As a student of the odd, I do love a Segway!