You are lucky…
My first “where’s Your Other wheel?” was last week and slightly diferent…
There wasn’t a cop, but the manager of the building I live. He asks me where
is my red nose… To be sarcastic with him, I’ve said that I don’t have a
pitbull, just a cat and a bird… His humour was worst than the british
cop… He didn’t understand the realationship between a red nose and a dog
(a pitbull one…)
He ask me to stop riding at the garage, because the bicycle riding is
forbidden… I say that I was at my luck day, because the unicycle isn’t a
bicycle and the rules of the garage don’t forbids unicycles…
Well… I was not arrested and we didn’t came to the police station, but it
was a nervous scene…
[]'s Eduardo
Ypê Bike: http://www.ypebike.cjb.net/
Ypê Mono: http://www.ype.unicyclist.com/
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: “Naomi” <Naomi_Sajeri@spamoff.hotmail.com>
> Newsgroups: rec.sport.unicycling
> To: <rsu@unicycling.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 10:11 AM
> Subject: My First “where’s Your Other wheel?”
>
>
> > I did it, I ventured outside the gym for the first time, and managed a
> > series of 100 metre rides. On the third a guy says the dreaded line.
> > “Where’s your other wheel?”
> > Is this question likely to be a daily hazard when riding outside the
> sports
> > hall? Or just an occasional nuisance?
> >
> > Actually I admit, it has long been my ambition to be good enough to be
> asked
> > that. So I gave him my prepared answer: " It’s probably still chained
> up
> > outside ASDA, along with the handlebars, chain and brake assemblies".
> > Wrong!!! the guy was an off duty policeman with a negative sense of
> > humour, even less idea of basic bicycle construction, and detained me
for
> > fully 5 minutes whilst he ascertained I was not in fact riding half a
> stolen
> > bike.
> > I grinned my way through this inquisition and he then cautioned me about
> > riding on the pavement.
> >
> > I do hope outdoor unicycling will continue to be this much fun!
> >
> > Translations for our USA cousins follow
> > 1) Pavement: sidewalk
> > 2) humour: correct spelling of humor
> > 3) ASDA: Supermarket, Walmart
> > 4) Policeman: cop
> > 5) Metre: bit bigger than a yard, but looks the same. Makes the length
> of
> > my rides sound more impressive to mathematicians and surveyors
> > 6) outdoor: in the UK, anywhere where you can feel the rain in your
> face.
> >
> >
> > Naomi:
> > –
> > Honest: I have a perfect hourglass figure…head full of sand and
> bottom
> > getting heavier by the minute.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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