Why do yoyoers get upset when I show interest or ask to see a trick?
They’re so sensitive! (Sarcasm) :
Because you grab at the string like a ninny that’s why! (Sarcasm) 
Takes yoyo and throws it down, ten pulls back up an says “It’s broken…”
Them: How mush did that cost?
Me: $50.
Them: You’re so stupid to spend so much on a yoyo.
Me: How much does your TV cost?..
People give me the business all the time. They’ll say things like:
“That’s so stupid.”
“Wow get a life, loser.”
“I find that mildly interesting, but only a fool would spend that much on a toy.”
“I wish I abortioned you.”
I try to find the good in these sorts of comments. They actually have helped really cut down on my yoyo-buying. That money now goes to my therapist.
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… That’s the worst one I’ve heard yet… I literally just went to a giant march against that…
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Well then it’s a good thing I made it up.
lol reminds me of the
“Get a life”
“Love you too mom”
The worst thing I had said to me is when my Uncle commented on how much time I have I why I waste it garbage,so I commented on his love of fishing and he shut up. But I always have headphones on, and I ignore anybody that talks to me.
I’m sure almost everybody has some sort of a hobby they blow a tonne of money and time on that are equally trivial in the grand scheme of things. I find it ironic and comical that they seem to think their hobby is somehow less of a waste than any other hobby.
Yuki
This thread is making me angry now. 
OK, more sad than angry…
You know so many people that suck! I don’t know any of them, but to know that someone out there really trashes you for a hobby that you love irks me. Who DOES that? And I KNOW you don’t all live in Texas…
(just kidding about Texas…)
Along the hobby $ line, I used to be into high quality headphones, and those would cost hundreds of dollars, even into the thousands. It is amazing how easy it is to spend money on something you are passionate about…
BTW, Sold all those headphones, and now I have a girlfriend, and one or two throws heh…
BTW, Sold all those headphones, and now I have a girlfriend, and one or two throws heh…
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good job dude! i think most of you guys should go get girlfriends. They come in handy after a long day. Make sammiches n what not hahaha oooww!
good job dude! i think most of you guys should go get girlfriends. They come in handy after a long day. Make sammiches n what not hahaha oooww!
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you act like its that easy to get a girl
“Hey man!, can you walk the dog?” …okay fine the guy is interested… but understand this. I paid over $100 for this aluminum yoyo and you want me to grind it on Concrete floor with Jagged arse rocks and craks all over? My other tricks aren’t good enough? you just for whatever reason have to feel the 1990’s nostalgia and see walk the dog? Then go into a neighborhood, you can see dogs walk for free. It don’t cost me $100 to see that.
Wow you get hostile very quickly. He was just asking you a question.
You don’t have to bring up how much you paid for it, just explain what happens when fast-spinning metal comes in contact with a hard surface and how you’d rather not damage your yoyo.
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when I say that a play yoyo they start laughing (they thought yoyo are just for kids)unless I have my genesis with me and I’ll show them my tricks LIKE A BOSS 8)
When you get " I challenge you to a Yoyo battle!" which is someone who can barley get a Yoyo to go up and down and still thinks he can beat you.
So, for the first time today, some teenagers asked if I could walk the dog. Kind of funny actually because they asked like this, “You know Zack and Cody? How they do that walking the dog thing? Can you do that?”
… and I actually knew who Zack and Cody were … though I’ve never seen the show itself…
Anyhow, I politely put it this way: “I can do that trick, but this yoyo’s just not good for it. If I tried, it would just sort of clang around a little.” Which is entirely true (mind you, no yoyo was going to work on the hard tile surface very well).
They didn’t care and were happy to watch the other tricks a friend and I were doing. “You guys are really good. Are you like professional performers?” they asked.
See, they may have asked to see Walk the Dog, but there was no ill intention… that’s their experience of a cool yoyo trick they could relate to. And they were blown away by the other stuff that we were happy to show them.
We kind of chuckled about the professional performers part… my “best” tricks are Kwyjibo, Zipper, and Jade Whip. My friend’s “best” tricks are Matrix and Ninja Vanish to Jade Whip. So we’re not bad, but we’re not exactly world-class.
Point being: there is zero reason to be hostile about it, and I don’t see how anyone even finds it annoying. It’s great that people are asking to see tricks and they just want to relate to you by tying in their own knowledge of yoyo (I think I said this earlier in the thread, too).
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He’s not hostile, it just gets annoying after hearing that over and over an over and over and over and over and over. Even though they don’t know better its still annoying.