Yesiree. I’ve always been keen on learning to ride a unicycle and as the old adage goes “You’re never too old to learn.”
I was reading the instructions that came with my newly-acquired, made in China, “half-bike”, and they assure me that all my wildest dreams will come true – all thanks to my humble unicycle.
From the Instructions (spelling and grammar as printed):
“Unicycling holds great attraction towards today’s youths who seek new and strange pleasure. It is beneficial to build up one’s body, to develop ones’ intellectual power, to enhance ones sense of appreciating beauty and to entertain oneself.
Unicycling can enrich one’s spare-time and cultural life. It effectively promotes the growth of cerbellun and therefore improves one’s intellectual power.
“Unicycling can create an effect of psycho-logical pleasure, strongly stimulate the regular movement of nerves, and so mould one’s temperament and strengthen one’s body and one’s mind”
So there you go. If you feel drawn to ‘strange pleasure”, want to increase your intelligence and your physique at the same time, appreciate beauty along with culture while entertaining yourself, I have good news for you…
Unicycling is the answer.
Hmmm – this new and strange pleasure is very mystifying!
Posted by PaisleyJade | May 18, 2010, 11:27 amThis is so funny!!!!
Now I understand why you do it.
Posted by Anya | May 18, 2010, 11:07 pmlol
Posted by Rachel Kate | May 19, 2010, 9:12 ami think i would need to actually be a guy to understand this latest craze :)
Posted by Rachel Kate | May 19, 2010, 9:13 amWhat a classic!! Ha ha!
Posted by Sophie | May 19, 2010, 1:55 pmBTW, we once had a misso volunteer staying with our family (in Pakistan) who was Canadian and wanted to learn to unicycle (or perhaps he already knew how to, I can’t remember)… eeeenyway, he had one MADE by the local bike shops that was 5ft high! And he was already tall. It was quite a sight seeing a tall white guy with blond hair in shalwar kameez on a 5ft unicycle! People thought he was bonkers.
Posted by Sophie | May 19, 2010, 1:58 pmGlad to see you’re still as sane as ever… I was getting a little worried for a bit there that the day job stuff was getting to you.
Posted by Stephen | May 19, 2010, 10:40 pm