So I’m riding my giraffe around the train station parking lot and this kid who looked to be about 5 years old excitedly shouts, “Hey ma, look at that guy on the unicycle!”.
And that was all.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
Ahhh! But did his mom look? Or was she talking to the kid’s aunt?
Today’s comment from a bloke walking his dogs in Fox Covert, seeing Andy and me stopped for a breather:
“Are these all the rage now then? I’ve never seen two before. I’ve seen this bloke around here plenty of times [pointing to me] but never two of you.”
Fair enough question, I thought. However, for “I’ve seen this bloke around here,” read: “My dog chased this bloke and bit his tyre last week.”
(A dog biting a uni tyre is quite fun, if you can keep your nerve. It grips the tyre but doesn’t pierce it. The wheel continues to revolve, and the dog’s head follows until it strikes the back of the frame, just below the seat. The dog then lets go. If you can keep your balance (as I did) you feel very smug as you carry on riding and the dog stands in stunned surprise.) LOL
LOL too. Good one. My neighbor’s dog, an Australian Blue Heeler I understand, used to bite the mailwoman’s tire as she drove off; one time he got stuck and did a few revolutions before she stopped, but he apparently survived quite well. He did puncture more than one auto tire in his time. Eventually they had to put him down but his legend lives on.
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>So I’m riding my giraffe around the train station parking lot and this
>kid who looked to be about 5 years old excitedly shouts, “Hey ma, look
>at that guy on the unicycle!”.
>
>And that was all.
>
>Raphael Lasar
>Matawan, NJ
I was downtown here a few weeks ago, and a guy was carrying a tiny half-asleep
little girl, maybe four years old at most, on his shoulders, and as I went by
he said to her, “Look at that guy’s funny bike, it only has one wheel.” And the
little girl said in that sort of slow, draggy monotone that sleepy children
speak in, “That’s… a… uni… cycle.” And suddenly, for a brief shining
moment, I felt that perhaps there was hope for the world after all.
- Joe
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i’ve got kid’z and that is so true,about hope in the world that is
“…from the mouths of babes…”
I was walking mine through the museum gardens in York on saturday when a little girl (with parent in tow) looked at my uni and said “that bike’s broken”… she was looking all upset that most of my bike was missing until I showed it could still be ridden…
Phil, just me
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phil wrote:
> I was walking mine through the museum gardens in York on saturday when
> a little girl (with parent in tow) looked at my uni and said “that
> bike’s broken”… she was looking all upset that most of my bike was
> missing until I showed it could still be ridden…
I was at a festival at the weekend. There was this dog that went
absoulutely crazy whenever I got on the uni, barked like mad. And when
I got off, he’d go quiet. 
Nick Grey
Add 0112 before the “at” to e-mail me.
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What is it about dogs?! I had a few trying to get themselves crushed by my muni last time I went up the hill…
Phil, just me
Today’s comments, from two kids of about twelve who were riding a motorbike (Honda Superdream) along the river bank, who saw me on the Coker: “Wow! How the f*** do you ride that thing off road?” On the one hand, gratifying, but on the other, such unpleasant language from the young, dontcha think?
And a fair attempt at originality from a cyclist: “I thought my eyes were going funny. That’s a strange mountain bike.”
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>Joe wrote:
>> *I was downtown here a few weeks ago, and a guy was carrying a tiny
>> half-asleep
>> little girl, maybe four years old at most, on his shoulders, and as I
>> went by
>> he said to her, “Look at that guy’s funny bike, it only has one
>> wheel.” And the
>> little girl said in that sort of slow, draggy monotone that sleepy
>> children
>> speak in, “That’s… a… uni… cycle.” And suddenly, for a brief
>> shining
>> moment, I felt that perhaps there was hope for the world after all. *i’ve
>got kid’z and that is so true,about hope in the world that is
>
>
>–
>jagur - Random Member
…and now today, I was riding along the river path, and a little boy of about
five or so who was walking along holding his dad’s hand looked at me and, as if
to restore some fundamental cosmic balance or something, said, “Where’s de udda
wheeo?” and I just sort of rode on looking straight ahead and saying to myself,
“No… No… NO…”
That was the youngest where’s-your-other-wheeler I’ve ever run into.
I got a really perplexing one a few days ago, when I rode past my favorite
street musician, a lovely and quite talented but apparently somewhat erratic
woman who plays a violin, and she yelled at me - really loud - “I LOVE YOU…
PRESIDENT… BUSH!!”
I didn’t stop (I generally launch a dollar into her case as I roll by), and in
the space of about two seconds I couldn’t think of anything to say back except,
“I am not President Bush.”
I do not know what this means. The whole uni experience can be a little surreal
sometimes.
- Joe
“…, and she yelled at me - really loud - “I LOVE YOU…
PRESIDENT… BUSH!!””
very strange
he’s got the wheel, it’s the hamster the rest of the world seems to be unsure about
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On 24 Jul 2002 06:32:57 GMT, ickyslug@aol.complexity (Joe) wrote:
Maybe Al “Unicycling Innovator” Gore has something to say about this
one?
Klaas Bil
>I got a really perplexing one a few days ago, when I rode past my favorite
>street musician, a lovely and quite talented but apparently somewhat erratic
>woman who plays a violin, and she yelled at me - really loud - “I LOVE YOU…
>PRESIDENT… BUSH!!”
>
>I didn’t stop (I generally launch a dollar into her case as I roll by), and in
>the space of about two seconds I couldn’t think of anything to say back except,
>“I am not President Bush.”
>
>I do not know what this means. The whole uni experience can be a little surreal
>sometimes.
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>Maybe Al “Unicycling Innovator” Gore has something to say about this
>one?
>
>Klaas Bil
In their next debate he and George “No Criminal Convictions” Bush can argue
about which one of them looks more like me. Let the American People decide, I
say. Put Al and Geo both on unicycles, and I might watch.
- Joe
This, by the way, is a riot. A leftover from the last campaign…
http://www.colonize.com/warp/