Questions People ask you when YoYoing in Public that gets under your Skin

General Yo-Yo
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Unless they’re hating on me I’m glad to hear what they have to say. It could be worse, they could say nothing!

Silence, being ignored, no smiles, what could be worse than that! Hopefully we’re talented and practiced enough to warrant a response from the communities that we throw in.

To be acknowledged is a compliment. To do something that’s different, out of the norm, and special, takes the ability to go your own way. To get upset when others look at that path, and make inquiries thereof, is a little…meh (imo).

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‘Does that yoyo have a motor in it?’ I hate that one.

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I like when people stare at me when I’m throwing.

I like it a lot more when they ask questions.

Least favorite question:

Does that have a motor?

Now that I think about it, that would have tonssss of vibe.

I just read every post on this…

I should get off now…

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I wonder what happened to biggrob10. He hasn’t been on in a while.

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Interested

“That’s a yoyo, right?”

“Yup”

“How does it spin that long?”

“It has a ball bearing in it” Takes it apart “See?”

“Oh, that’s awesome. Where did you learn the tricks?”

“Mainly youtube, but there’s a some sites as well”

“Can you do one last trick, cause I gotta go”

“Sure” Arm grinds

Stands in awe “Woah! Do it again”

does it again

“Sweet!” Goes off

Somewhat interested

Watches you “Is that a trick yoyo?”

“No”

“Oh, ok then”

Haters

“Why are you playing with a yoyo?”

“Because its fun”

“Someone has WAY too much free time”

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Once I was yoyoing next to my friend who was playing guitar, and he asked me to do walk the dog. I asked him to play smoke on the water.

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^^LOL. I used to play smoke on the water all the time. Now, when I play deep purple, its usually burn.

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I will say about all the complaints about reactions to prices, think about when you first started yoyoing. I started because I had seen this other guy doing it. I asked him to try his yoyo I remember, and thought him insane when he told me he spent 25 dollars on a yoyo (I didn’t ask him to do walk the dog though, instead I asked him to do lindy loops and was absolutely amazed by them). There is one name I have gotten called that i hate which I will not say here, but I will say it involves the word yoyo and is based off the word that means a person who likes people of the same gender

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Woah, I tried to crush that bug…

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A couple weeks back I had this conversation with a stranger.

Stranger: Hey, is that a yoyo?
Me: Yes, yes it is. Performs modern trick
Stranger: Man, you must waste ALOT of time doing that
Me: Yes, yes I do. I feel it keeps me active.
Stranger: How much did that thing cost?
Me: Looks at Code 1 (Special Edition) About $115.
Stranger: Why don’t you use that money to buy yourself a life, tunker? You should be doing something better with your life than using a toy. Go cure Alzheimer’s or something useful. Walks Away
Me:Picks up jaw off the floor

New York is a rough place…

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I don’t mind people telling me what they think, or asking me to do a trick or something, all that bothers me is negativity.

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I didnt know you could buy a life for $115, kind cheap.

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Yeah, I know. Last time I checked, childbirth was a lot more than $115.

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If I yoyo at school, kids get pissed off at me. The common reaction is for them to grab the string and say " (expletive) stop that!". Then i try to get the string away from them, which results in “Just make it go back and put it away”. It frustrates me that they’re stupid enough to not realize taht i need the string to bind it. -_-

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Whoah…they sound like jerks

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I should be ashamed of myself. I never bothered a person yoyo’ing to ask them annoying questions when I was younger, or even older for that matter. All I could think of was how cool that was and I wish I could do that.

That’s when I was 7. 33 years have passed since then. Yes, I’m 40. I started last year at age 39. Now I CAN do some of that stuff, and if I work hard at it, I can do more!

I carry a yoyo on me in plain site almost everywhere I go. I usually get positive reactions. As much as we may get annoyed and want to choke the life out of people who lay down the hate, be a jerk or just strive to be annoying, we must think that “we enjoy this, and we’re not gonna let someone who doesn’t share this wreck our enjoyment”. Granted, some people need a serous beat down with a clue-by-four(a 4X4 wood post full of exposed nails, screws, bolts, barbed wire and other nasty bits), but hey, that’s life.

If people ask why I do it, especially those who are trying to provoke something, I tell them that it helps relieve stress. I find it funny that around me, most people laying down the hate are smoking at the same time. Sorry if I offend those who do smoke. I’m very anti-smoking, since both my parents smoke(d), and one died as a result of medical problems that go with smoking, and that meant I was around a LOT of smoking for good portion of my life. At any rate, assuming the pack a day habit, I know that their smoking habit probably costs more financially than my yoyo habit(well, maybe, I’ve got expensive tastes).

I just figure, for the 3-15 minutes it takes them to suck down that crap, I could be burning some calories, sparking my creativity and getting better on a trick. I put a temporary halt to my problems with depression and MAYBE I feel good for a few minutes.

I’m heading to the park tomorrow to throw, play some diabolo, frisbee, kendama, work on spintops and other skill toy stuff. I got some gyros and was playing with those. I’m gonna take up juggling soon when I get a nice set of beanbags or stage balls. Yeah, I’m 40 and I play with toys. I’ll keep that in mind as I take a $5 coupon to Toys R Us tomorrow and try to get a footbag. I mean, I gotta picture of me in front of a robot for my Forum Xpert profile. I don’t think I exactly count as “mature”.

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My dad died of a fatal heart attack related to smoking. He had one many years before, which was also related to smoking. He stopped a couple years after, but I guess it wasn’t enough. Smoking, along with other things including stress and over exertion killed him. That’s why I HATE smoking. A couple months before he passed, I had bought my first yoyo. I put it down for a while, until he died. Much like Studio, I found it to be a good stress reliever.

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This isn’t about the people being mean as much as it is them not knowing about yoyoing. The question I hate is " is that a ‘trick’ yoyo. My only response is no cause I’m. It exactly sure what they mean by trick yoyo.

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I believe that their mindset is that they are still in the ‘old-school’ era, so their idea of yoyoing is still the “up and down” kind, rather than the string tricks that we know of now. If you show them a looping yoyo, now, that’s probably their idea of a “non-trick yoyo”, since it closely resembles yoyos of the past.

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I get asked kind of frequently “is that a professional yoyo”. I just say it’s a modern yoyo with a ball bearing and that they are easy to get.