I’ve seen people become upset when learning skills.
I’ve watched a student hurl an expensive new airbrush into a concrete wall.
I’ve watched a young skater lie on the ground and explain to everything within shrieking distance that, and I quote, “I can’t DO it!”
I’ve watched more than a few people, sweaty and perplexed, assume that they never could and never will ride a unicycle.
The upset doesn’t come from trying to learn the skill.
I think the upset comes from thinking you were gonna be really, really amazing at it naturally (or supernaturally?), and then discovering that you’re a perfectly normal human who’s gonna need a minute to practice.
I tried riding a unicycle once. At least I didn’t do a face plant or break any bones.
Is the rule that you have to finish with your unicycle, or on it?
That’s rule #300.
I found it aggravating learning to snowboard – along with stepson who expected it to be easy but is (astonishingly) even less coordinated than I am. Frustrations were expressed and snowboardings were not learned.
I gave unicycling a try once…
Now it feels weird to travel a mere block without one of them. (I may have three…)
extra point for ‘interesting ammo’? lol
To this day I regret not recording my nephews trying to use one of my clown bikes. They were half the size they are today so their legs weren’t at weird angles when they were pedaling and they couldn’t quite make it work. Only one stuck with it long enough to make it more than two feet.
I gave him one when he graduated high school.
I bought a unicycle and got okay with it, then my little brother took it up and became brilliant on it. So I let him keep it.
Now then — pogo sticks, I have few rivals on that jolly thing.