Okay, a couple of things-
Number One- the front of a unicycle saddle has a handle on it for when you have to hop, or steady the thing, or hold onto it while not riding. I know SOMEONE is going to make a rude comment anyhow. Go ahead, but I’ve already told you. That’s where they put the handle, there wasn’t anywhere else to put it. Unicycle, dude.
Number Two- I don’t actually know if this cartoon is funny. It happened in real life. It happened to me. I was hopping around and riding in the park, and was given a nice compliment. I think the lady was being courteous and complimentary. I also know that us older folks tend to think of ourselves in our younger states, still capable and fit. But having this older lady in the park insist that what I was doing was impressive because she couldn’t do it seemed a little… I dunno… funny to me. Was it also impressive that I could still wear shoes that had laces, while she needed loafers? I bet not. Like I said, I don’ t know. It just seemed… odd.
For that matter, though, I’ve had people tell me that my cartooning amazes them because they themselves couldn’t have done it. They don’t say anything about the style or the humor- just that it’s me doing it and they couldn’t have. Maybe I don’t give off the proper air of confidence… and they assume they SHOULD be able to do anything someone as feeblewitted as I seem to be can do.
I just don’t know.
Oh, and I almost forgot… unicycling really isn’t that tricky. If you have enough sense of balance to walk, then you can probably manage it. If you also have the sense of balance to ride a bike, you’ll do great. The skill sets are pretty much the same- Hold your body upright, lean forward slightly, peddle, propel yourself forward in a continuous suspended fall. There you go.
When I was a teenager, my brother pestered my parents for a unicycle. Then, when they bought one for us, we both tried getting on it for about 5 minutes, then ran off to watch TV. Thing would still be rusting in my parent’s garage if they hadn’t thrown it out after changing addresses.
I think it’s amazing that you can ride one. And that you can tie your shoelaces, too… (Lots of people draw webcomics, so that part’s not so amazing…)
I can juggle but a unicycle has one too few wheels, or three, thinking about it. I’ll respect and be amazed that you can ride a uni, and I can almost catch beanbags without having to chase them around. 🙂
I think juggling a unicycle is amazing.
I think you being somewhere in Russia (i.e. 3 “steps” over Japan) is kinda cool… unless you’re KGB, than not so cool. 😀
Unicycling isn’t hard, it’s just so easy much easier to quit learning than to keep at it until you can do it…
I was trying to think of an elegantly simple way of putting this. You did it. I can quit now.
And that pretty much sums up everything.
Except sometimes there’s someone else around to tell you how talented and brilliant (or clumsy and stupid) you are, and maybe to break a complex sequence of steps down into simple, easily mastered single steps. So other people can make our learning much easier (or harder).
I know I can’t draw, so kudos to you for taking up a hobby/habit/drug addiction to which (with which?) I have no ability… if you can do it, then do it! As for unicycling, no thank you; I have enough of a time with just my two feet, much less 2 feet & 1 wheel…
I can walk. I can draw. I can ride a bicycle. I CANNOT ride a unicycle (nor a skateboard for that matter) I CAN build cool theater sets. My brother’s unicycle did not have a handle anywhere, I am pretty sure. You just grabbed the edge of the seat. I am not even sure it had a front or a back. (He rides a pennyfarthing so he can do all of this.)
I will not be trying any of the things that I cannot do, any time soon. I fell 50 years ago. I do not wish to do it now. Falling on the ice and manure is bad enough!