I met up with @YouveLostAWheel for some light muni round Bedgebury Forest today and we got a good variation on the classic theme…
“You’ve lost the middle of your tandem” 
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Yesterday while standing on the side of the trail to let horse riders pass: “Is that a unicycle?”
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„Yes. Is that a mule?“
Look a unicyclist. Oh it’s a unicorn. It’s a unicorn riding a unicycle.
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@IvenBach Some of our newer members might have a harder time putting this into (possible) context, without a photo of your helmet. 
I am in the front row with the black horn.
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On my second lap of a local section of trail last night I passed a couple walking for the second time. The man (it’s always the man isn’t it!) said “you need a second wheel to stop you going round in circles”. At least it was slightly more original than the usual ‘lost a wheel’ comment!
I was riding my 36er and a lady drives by and yells “F******* STOP!!!” and she wasn’t joking either, she was mad at me for no reason. Very confused but alrighty ma’am.
I also had a police officer drive up next to me while I was out riding, and I was on my phone and he rolls his window down (also continues to drive along the side of me while I’m riding) and says wow, riding a unicycle and texting, very dangerous! Your so reckless! I was like dude, there are cars behind you. I screamed back hell yea I’m reckless!
I’ve also had multiplie people say do a WHEELIE… ta dah! I’m doing one like all the time when I’m riding
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I get that all the time, people are like is that a unicycle? ummm actually it’s not a unicycle lol
I’m kind of jealous that you have people to ride with. I’ve tried teaching my friends to ride one but they all chicken out. but now I’m going to use that comeback - oh yea i lost a wheel and had to go back and find it 
This one was weird, “Where’s the fruit?”
Huh? When I passed by again later on the juggling mime action was being done by the same man. Nothing new there. There must be some connection between juggling and fruit that I’m not aware of.
Nah, probably not… don’t overestimate the power of the idiot mind.
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People used to juggle fruit. I used lemons on a big stint when I was learning. (They were very juicy after being dropped on the ground a hundred times.)
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‘Do you know Ed Pratt?’
Someone asked me this during my unipacking trip last week. ‘Of course!’ I replied 
This guy had never seen a unicycle in person before, but he had seen Ed’s videos so still he knew some about it. This resulted in a fun conversation, with him even asking some more technical questions!
On the same trip, whilst unicycling in the French-speaking part of Belgium, someone grinned and yelled at me: ‘manque une roue!’
I only understand a little bit of French, so at first, I had no idea what he meant. But just the way he yelled it seemed too familiar…
I realised a few seconds later: oh… it’s just the same old comment as always, just in a different language. This made me think: as a unicyclist, you will develop the ability to always understand ‘you’ve lost a wheel’, no matter the language. It always sounds the same
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“Do you ride that for a living?”
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That takes balance and coordination.
A dad said to his kid at the park. Felt good to hear a valid comment with a hint of admiration.
He’s widing his unicycle in da gwass.
The wee one was blown away that I could go through grass.
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An unusual thing happened on a morning ride…
I was riding in Canberra, Australia at the “National Arboretum”. This has clusters of tree plantings of species from around the world and is often visited by kids on school excursions and has many dirt and some paved walking and cycling tracks. A visitor center with cafe and viewing platform is on a hill with a commanding view of the plantings below. From the lower levels of the area, a “zigzag” track (42 zigzags) leads up to the visitor center.
I entered the zigzags from a connecting single track and heard distant sounds like “unicycle!” coming from above. Then at each zig or zag shouts of “turn left” or “turn right”, followed by applause (all the way up!). Then when I finally got to the visitor center there was a whole lot of school kids wanting to get a “high five” from me (surprising as I would be the same age as their grandparents). I jokingly asked if anyone wanted to have a go on the unicycle and amazingly several said “yes” - I wasn’t sure how this could end, so I said it would be a bit difficult to adjust the seat height without tools. Then I moved on - I think the teacher was glad the distraction was over, and the kids could continue learning about trees!
Edit (for @Setonix ): “The dramatic zig and zag shapes of the Central Valley Path and gardens are flanked by giant steps that form a giant leaf when viewed from the air. Twenty-four individual gardens line the path which sweeps down the hill from the Village Centre to the entrance gates”.
Map link: [Google Maps]
You need to select the satellite layer, then the map is centered at the point where a dirt trail I arrived on enters the steeper section of the zigzags. The school crowd was on a platform between the pod playground and the “Village Center” building with the strange roof.
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Now that I have a kid of three that needs looking after in the evenings and weekend when my wife goes to work, I don’t get as much time to ride unicycle as I want. Today however a chance presented itself and I chose to go for a ride with the Qu-Ax 19" trials around the neighbourhood, all in all maybe 8-9km. A trials requires a lot of pedalling, but it is easy to freemount and drive slowly if needed.
There was a time when I rode around much more and people might have gotten used to seeing a unicyclist, but tonight there were many people standing still and watching me. First I just walked to the park where I decided to take off from and some old guy walking his dog, decided to wait to see me free-mount. I never know from the start, if it works the first time, but luckily it did. I had several thumbs up from people and while riding on a cycle path, a car rode slowly next to me with 2 young women who couldn’t stop laughing at me and they didn’t pay attention to the car and possibly wanted to drive off in too high gear, because the engine stopped and they had to start the car again. That is when I started laughing at them. Nobody asked me where my other wheel was though. When riding in the national park, everybody asks that.
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Don’t you have a picture of the zig zag path? or a google maps link?