Daft comments

On Tue, 14 May 2002 13:16:52 -0500, nbrazzi
<nbrazzi.4nnvz@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote:

>2) I had two kids stop me on the street yesterday and asked me "How do
>you do that?" I had absolutely no clue how to answer that question.

I say "Like this".
Even if you're new and still practicing the freemount, it applies.

Klaas Bil
--
"To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked automagically from a database:"
"Li Hongzhi, CFD, Lexis-Nexis"

[ticklemevaughn]

i just rode across southern washington (usa) and much to my surprise i got very few comments. im keeping a tally all the way to the mississippi. so far:

you lost your other wheel 3
thats one way to go 2
freak 1
youre off the hook 1
rock on 1
oh my f#ck 1

im sure there will be more when we ride through towns with more than 20 people living in them. by the way, anyone live on hwy 12 that feels like giving a touring unicyclist and his bicycling friend a shower and maybe a couch for the night? thanx.

Last week when I was just minding my own business while riding on the sidewalk,
this small group (3-4 people), stopped in their tracks and began to clap as I
rode by. Very funny.

The last time I was riding in town, this one man in a red minivan, drove around
the block that I was on, 3 times, honking his horn wildly, waving, and giving
me a thumbs up, lol.

And then there was this one time, at band camp...
-Dylan

----- Original Message -----
From: John Foss <john_foss@asinet.com>
To: 'Mikefule' <Mikefule.4hjab@timelimit.unicyclist.com>; <rsu@unicycling.org>
Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 12:42 PM
Subject: RE: Daft comments


> > Anyone out there got any examples of the wit of the general
> > public?

I bought it at a half price sale. They didn't tell me I only get half the bike.

Lowell

The best I've received so far was a crowd cheering me on as I rode by.
Really people, it's not that difficult

The "worst" was while I was walking it looking for a good place to mount
(this was in my pre-freemount days). A cop rode by on a bike and said "Mad
respect if you can ride that. Mad respect." Of course I couldn't.

I ride my uni from class to class and between classes the campus is just
loaded with people, so I've gotten lots of comments. So far all positive.

Matt

[onlyonewheel]

I live directly across the street from a drug house, so when I'm practicing in the street and the junkies drive up I usually don't get too many comments because they're too stoned to know what's going on in the first place. I guess they assume it's just another one of their hallucinations.

"nbrazzi" <nbrazzi.4nnvz@timelimit.unicyclist.com> wrote in message
news:nbrazzi.4nnvz@timelimit.unicyclist.com...
> 2) I had two kids stop me on the street yesterday and asked me "How do
> you do that?" I had absolutely no clue how to answer that question.
>
say it's just like riding a bike, then watch them try it and laugh!

Joe

> Oddly, the one I get most often is probably "Good job!" (I
> don't tell them that I'm only a level 1.5 rider.)

They don't care what "level" you are, you can ride! "Good job" is perfectly
accurate.

> "Is that hard?" (I get this rather often too)

"Not as hard as this ground"

> "Unicycle! UNICYCLE!! YOOOOOONICYCLE!!!" (This from a guy in
> a park a hundred yard or so away, throwing his arms out
> ecstatically like Moses parting the Red Sea)

"Look everybody, a Yoooonibird!"

> "Mommy mommy lookit lookit that guy LOOKIT THAT GUY-"

And when the parent doesn't look the kid goes crazy.

> "Does that hurt?"

"No, the ground does."

> "Doot doot doodle oodle oot doot doo doo, doot doot doodle
> oodle oot doot doo doo..." (you all know what tune this is)

These people get a black storm cloud mentally projected at them.


JF

On 15 May 2002 02:56:17 GMT, ickyslug@aol.complexity (Joe) wrote:

>"Doot doot doodle oodle oot doot doo doo, doot doot doodle oodle oot doot doo
>doo..." (you all know what tune this is)

This was WAY funnier than if they sing it at you. LOL!

Klaas Bil

"Seems that quotes are quite fashionable these days" - Bruce Edwards
--
"To trigger/fool/saturate/overload Echelon, the following has been picked automagically from a database:"
"ie.org, Blenheim, WWSP"

[trsrdr]

A "little" girl came up behind me yesterday while I was out for a short ride on my Coker. I was going rather slow approaching an intersection as she pulled up beside me and asked rather rudely, "What ARE you?", I asked what she meant, she repeated her previous question, then asked, "Are you a clown?" to which I replied, "No, do you mean clowns ride these, too. NEAT!" Then I sped away and left her wondering.