I was riding around a school parking lot and this black guy and his girl friend come riding up in this wierd looking car( i believe “low-rider” is the term?)
anyways he rolls his window down and tells me that he can ride. My immediate reaction was lets make him look stupid in front of his girlfriend. Turns out he was extremely good for not having ridden since he was a kid. I love it when things dont turn out the way you expect:D
Them: “Is that hard?”
Me: “Depends if you know how to do it or not.”
an other possibility to make them look stupid is to give a answer which has noting to do with it. like “the forest is so green”, or, witout answering, give a question as reply: “why’s your t-shirt blue?” 
most people will start thinking and be quiet…
I like that one!
If asked that question, I prefer the slightly less subtle answer “Yes, very”
Also, does this happen to anyone else?:
You are walking along with your uni, either coz you are too tired to ride it any more or coz it is too crowded to ride it. Someone stops you and asks,
“WOW!, can you actually ride that thing??”
“No, I just walked 10 miles from my house pushing it so that I would look cool”
“Really?”
“no”
I seem to get it all the time. (not that I am pushing it all the time, but if I am, you know what i mean)
Whenever I walk my uni I get that one, foolish!
I work at a sport and recreation camp in the holidays and the kids always ask “can you ride that thing?” and I say what you said …
the best response I had - from a little girl when i told her i just walked around with it to be cool- “yeah, my brother does that as well with his skateboard…boys are stupid like that.”
'enuff said.
I know some kids like that!
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foolish wrote:
>>*Them: “Is that hard?”
> If asked that question, I prefer the slightly less subtle answer “Yes,
> very”
I prefer to be more encouraging. I usually say “it just takes practice”.
i.e. it’s not easy but just about anyone can do it if they put the
effort in. You never know, that could be a budding unicyclist and you’ve
got the opportunity to either kindle or extinguish that flame…
Oh yeah, and always carry cards for your local club and/or unicycle
vendor. 
Regards,
Mark.
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Yes, but you’re a nice guy Mark. I tried letting people have a go if I wasn’t in a rush, but when they tried to do it they usually got bored after realising that it wasn’t easy.
Sam
Oh yeah, if they seem genuinly interested then I point them to uni.uk.com. I dont think our club has cards.
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foolish wrote:
> Yes, but you’re a nice guy Mark.
That’s me. O:-)
> I tried letting people have a go if I
> wasn’t in a rush, but when they tried to do it they usually got bored
> after realising that it wasn’t easy.
I don’t always let people play (although it’s useful if it looks like
they need showing up in front of their mates) but I’ll usually stop and
chat if people express an interest.
> Oh yeah, if they seem genuinly interested then I point them to
> uni.uk.com.
Good idea.
> I dont think our club has cards.
Ours didn’t have any until I made some…
Regards,
Mark.
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> Everyone who knows them bursts out laughing and the persons face turns
> bright red and I have yet to have someone take the offer to try it. I
> love to make them look stupid! 
That’s mean and a bit sick. I think I understand 100% 8v) If it was easy
being a good person everybody would be doing it, and THEN were would we be?
walking Uni
I unfortunately got a flat tire at the furthest most point of my entire ride one day, and i had to walk my uni home. As i was walking down a pedestrian pathway, some kids passed me on bikes and said to their mom, “I betcha he can’t even ride that!”, 2nd kid: “Ya, he’s just pretending he can!”. This made me quite angry, if i didn’t like my rim i probably would have got on my uni and rode past them at warpspeed while laughing evilly.
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Thats a good idea, the only problem is that we live about 20 miles from our club, and where we normally go riding (in and around our town) people don’t want to travel that far every week.
Sam
hiya,
i dont know whos gonna read this cus its such a massive thread i must be like the millionth postee. anyway i was riding down the pavement on a main road and some thick kidsstarted swearing at me like mad! then they started throwing stones at me but i knew they wouldn’t have the hand-eye co-ordination(lost through drugs abuse) so i stuck my middle finger up and rode on by.
also some fat guy in a cap always leans out of his car and shouts “get a f*****g life”.
Dont worry, I read it. Hows ur flu??
Sam
I had a very similar experience… I was riding past a group of students on campus around dusk and one of them said to another, “Hey, give me a rock.” My response was eerily identical to yours. As I did so, another genius in the group said, “hey man, I think you’re getting the finger.”
Later,
Eli.
after being the 7 billionth person to post on this thread, im suprised that no one has posted this remark. whenever i ride i always get “how do you ride that thing?”
i reply: you sit on the seat, put your feet on the pedals, and push forward
cornsyrup
I was pushing my unicycle down the hall at my local YMCA and met up with two little girls and their mom. One of the girls said “Wow, is that hard?” I said, “No, I just push it like this”, while moving it back and forth a little. She was impressed! Then I told her it didn’t even have brakes. She said “No brakes (pause) no brakes (pause) no brakes …” in utter amazement.
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I was riding a grassy field when a bicycling father and his little son
passed by (on a path). The father said “Look at that! That must be
hard.” And the little fellow (like 6 y.o.) said “Yes, but he is
holding his bike with one hand.”
The world is full of apathy but I don’t care.
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foolish wrote:
> [re: club cards ]
> Thats a good idea, the only problem is that we live about 20 miles from
> our club, and where we normally go riding (in and around our town)
> people don’t want to travel that far every week.
Hmm, that can be a problem but I still tend to carry (and hand out)
cards no matter where I am. We got a couple of new members one time when
we were miles away - turns out the guy lives just down the road from me.
Of course, a printed card is easy for people to pass on to anyone they
know who is closer to the club…
Regards,
Mark.