Kid: yo, that man chillin on 30’s
Me: actually its a 36
Kid: Aw, snap!
Also, my personal favorite from an old lady:
“I been done busted my a$$ tryin’ to ride that!”
The meaning here is obviously that she would get hurt if she tried, but has english been degraded so far as that’s what comes out of your mouth when you try to say it?
Yesterday while riding a bridge over a freeway, a guy in his pickup truck opens the passenger window. He leans out while matching my 13mph and passes me his business card. He says, “Please take this and call me. I gotta get me one of those.” And he takes off.
Turns out he and his son have been riding for years; they own many unicycles but have never heard of Cokers, unicycle.com, unicyclist.com etc.
a month ago I rode through (literally) a posse of youngsters .
I saluted them politely : the gang alpha male was baffled and exclaimed “Well man that’s FRESH!”
I’ve been getting garbled grunts and squawks alot lately. I will go by and someone will just say, “UUHHNNGG”, or “oooMMMBBBB”, or “AwwKKK,” as if they are so mystified they are no longer able to speak coherently. Somehow, it’s better than the ones who can speak coherently and yet say all the things I’ve heard for the last 40 years or so.