Ingrid bought a moped before Christmas, with all her savings and some support from us as an early Christmas gift. It’s been standing in our garage, doing nothing, for months. She already had her license as well, so she’s been anxious to take it out for many weeks but the weather hasn’t allowed it. Now that the streets are finally mostly ice-free, it’s a go.

Today she and Eric replaced the moped’s broken footplate. This project involved detaching literally all fairings and assorted other bits (which she listed for me but I already forgot) to access the footplate, and then putting them back again. It took hours. But now the moped is all ready!

(Ingrid’s closest group of friends are nearly all boys, and all very interested in cars and mopeds. Ingrid knows way more about sports cars than I did at her age.)