Family and friends

[liz_said42]

I just started and i was just wondering what your friends and family think of you unicycling?
Mum likes to refer to me as 'our little circus freak' as a joke

[maxisback]

well my moma says it's danger.. ym dad thinks it's pimp my sister well she's just fat.. and oh ! my mom calls it a biek withc pisses me off

[GILD]

I just started
That's one more of us and one less of them.

My brother is a librarian, my one sister is a lawyer and my other sister works on cruise-ships. My parents are glad to have one well-adjusted child.
Even if he turned out to be a unicycle-activist.

[Matt.Weston]

My mum refuses to hear an explanation of what I've been out practicing :p She also seems to avoid watching any extreme unicycle videos when I put them on...

I don't think she really wants to know what I'm doing, she'd get worried if she saw what my intentions were. ;)

[podzol]

My parents were afraid my brother and I would join the circus instead of going to college. We also juggled, stilt walked and slackroped.

[trials2k]

ahaha my parents were all for it wen i started and now they just dont care, but as soon as im about to get a real trials uni (KH20 Trials) they start to get all jumpy and now they r telling me that i am wasting my money and that its a ridiculous way to spend money!!
But they dont understand heheh :D

[GILD]

Would it help if you compared it to the price of a new mountainb*ke and showed them how much money you're saving?

[fexnix]

Would it help if you compared it to the price of a new mountainb*ke and showed them how much money you're saving?

KH20 = 1/2 of a mountainbike fork

My parents thinks its cool, but they think I practise a little too much instead of doing my school work.

My sister wants to learn how to ride.

[chosen]

my mom and brother think its cool. no one else really gets how hard it is. my mom always tells me im really good, so its good encouragement even though i know im not near the best.

[GILD]

KH20 = 1/2 of a mountainbike fork
What's with the language settings?

[unijesse]

my mom supports me 100%
my dad is starting to come around
my bro sorta wants to learn but its not the first thing on his list
my step family just thinks im retarded

but none of them thinks this forum is safe cept for my mom (im not supposed to be on right now, shhhhhh!)

[johnfoss]

No forum is safe, but this one is less scary than others. Walking out the front door isn't safe either.

Anyway, if you asked my parents, and they were honest, they would probably say they wished I'd stayed in school (I quit college to ride unicycles).

I don't recommend this to *anybody.* I was very successful with unicycling, but it is almost impossible to make a career out of it, other than as an entertainer. Not to take away from the entertainers out there, but that's generally not a great career; doesn't last very long, no benefits, etc.

I find unicycling to be much better when subsidized by a "day job." :)

[James_Potter]

a lot of my friends do it...but my friends who don't do it think I'm weird but love me anyway.
my family thinks I'm weird too.
my dad actually used to ride a unicycle a very little bit, but he only learned to ride well enough to ride once around his pool and then fall in and chip a tooth on the bottom of the pool.
really.

[Unitik908]

my mom doesnt really care.. she understands its important to me.. so she doesnt mind... my step dad well hes an ass so i dont care... my brother tells me its "gay".. but when he get around all his friend he acts like its the coolest thing in the world... funny how things are

[chosen]

(I quit college to ride unicycles)
huzzah!

[fexnix]

What's with the language settings?

It´s swedish, either dig it or you don´t.
:D

[LikeableRodent]

I converted three of my friends over to unicycling, two of which have recently purchased their own.

The rest of my friends think that it's cool, and my parents just think it's an interesting hobby.

[GILD]

It´s swedish, either dig it or you don´t.
:D
Ah, I didn't know which language it was. It's just very weird that it appears in Swedish on my screen since mine isn't set to display in Swedish. It also only happened with that post.
Mind you, all the notifications of new posts in the 'Drummers' thread seems to have a subjectline that's in Spanish.
There's something freaky going on here.

[cathwood]

My youngest daughter finds it vaughly embarrassing and I tease her mercilessly about riding to her house on a uni.
My oldest daughter just accepts it along with my other eccentricities.
Little sam probably thinks that's just what mummies like me do (he's still at the age when he thinks that all women have long hair, despite the fact that mine is shorter than his and has been all his life).
My parents probably think it's slightly more understandable than my other hobbie of collecting degrees.
My brother thinks it's a good way of keeping his kids busy.
My husband is supportive and will come to conventions and even have a quick go himself.

Cathy

[OLLIE]

my dad thinks im strange, my sister wants me to learn to juggle so that i will run off to the circus(you may of gathered she doesn't like me or my uni) and my mum loves it and she wants to learn!!!:D
but i told her i wouldn't teach her!
and my realives and friends tink its cool, and they acept it because i do other "strange" sports, like trials biking (the ones with no seats, so thats why its "strange")

[freddy]

My parents think it's cool I think and my sister wants learn to ride.
My dad does always talk bosh about all the tricks, he says: "Are you going out to slide and glide?"