Yeah it is 
Two old ladies, as I rode past them:
„Oh, look, a handy velocipede!“
„Yeah.“
„Could that be something for you?“
„Not really, I guess.“
Sounds like a joke. You had better started with “Two old ladies, as an old bloke rode past them:”
Two old ladies, as a bloke on a uni rode past them:
„Oh, look, a handsome velocipedist!“ 
„Yeah.“ 
„Could that be something for you?“
„You bet!“ 
(unicyclist accelerates) 
f-slide:
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I rode past two lads next to the skatepark. One said “Did you see that?”, the other said “That was very cool”.
What nice encouraging young people, responding to the skill of going fast up to the top of a quarter pipe, then jumping straight down the opposite side.
You might be thinking it was me who did that, but honesty requires me to confess that it wasn’t, it was my dog running on a harness ahead of me (I did not follow - that’s a far future trick to learn!)
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Yesterday, while passing a group of maybe 5 children on the other side of the street:
“Look!”
“I couldn’t even ride it.”
“I couldn’t even mount it.”
“How can he do that?!”
This morning, when quickly entering the butchery while the owner held the door open for me:
“Take it easy! You’re so fast on your unicycle, so you can slow down when you’re walking.” (That was quite heartwarming)
This evening, when passing a group of youngsters:
“Aute!”
“Är geit huere ab!”
U no mit schybebrämse!"
Translating slang is always a bit difficult, but I’ll try it:
“Dude!”
“He’s damn fast!”
“And even with disc brakes.”
Interpreting youngsters can be a as difficult as translating slang. I wasn’t sure if they were mocking me or if they were genuinely surprised or even impressed to see an old fart on a uni with (a single) disc brake zipping by. I think this time it was mostly appreciation, with the obligate dash of mockery.
Nearly every week I go riding with my son. He on his new two wheeler and me on the 24 muni. Today two old ladies past us two times and the second time she said “wow that is super impressive” i just thanked her for her compliment.
Pretty much got this today. Spooked what i’m guessing was a young horse being trained given there was someone on a bike behind it. Rider managed to stay on. With horses I always slow down and give as much space as possible but this one startled when i was about 20m away.
I dismounted, apologised and was expecting nastiness but instead I was asked if i could stand in place so the horse could get used to the idea of a unicycle. Given the number of cyclists where the horse was being walked, it had obviously got over bikes but i guess a unicycle is a different thing…
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Today I participated in an event where a bunch of municyclists met to ride together. There was a shuttle bus that brought those who arrived by train to the „base“. The driver noted that he found riding downhill pretty challenging even on a b!ke, adding that you constantly have to decide which brake to use and so on. „But doing this on a uni where you have to keep the balance not only in two directions but in all four… 
“. To which I remarked that at least you don’t have to think about which brake to use 
.
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Yesterday I went for a ride around town, because they replaced all the bike paths with very smooth asphalt. Especially when I know there are bikes behind me and when I want to stop, I hold my arm in the air with a fist, to indicate I am going to stop. Yesterday as I did the same at a busy crossing with traffic lights, a dude in a van understood that as that he should honk the horn. I hadn’t even noticed him. Generally I don’t like riding where there are a lot of peeps. They all have something to say about it. Very annoying.
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I try to answer folks in the spirit they’re suggesting - my stock to “you lost a wheel” or “where’s your other wheel” is either something in the standard fare (“it was 50% off”, “it’s on my other unicycle”, etc.) if they’re gently ribbing and obviously are just trying to be part of the moment; or if it’s a bro trying to impress his side chick by poking fun at the crazy unicyclist I go for more of the axis between “nah, I took off my training wheel” (the “you’re missing something” angle) and “wait, why are you still riding with your training wheel?”
A great one today was “how long did it take you to learn?” from a 30-ish woman when I stopped to help her partner cyclist that had dropped a frame-attached pump on the trail. She said she really wanted to go to the circus school (by which I’m sure she meant the Philadelphia School of Circus Arts) and take up unicycling.
Also today: 20-something guy in a car, as I was walking my uni off the bike trail at the end of a 30 mile ride - “Wait, you can ride that thing? Frickin awesome!”
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As I was returning to my vehicle from a muni ride and passing a giga-Chad with his friends, he commented to them and I overheard: Why would anyone ride a unicycle?
Me: Because it gets you chicks.
Chad: Really?
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chicks generally laugh at me.
Maybe you should be riding your unicycle more
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Best comment I’ve had recently was ‘you’ve lost a wheel’.
It was quite funny since I had actually gone for a walk without my unicycle. A local dog walker recognised me even though I was on foot for a change.
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