My friend also named Justin just teases me but he still thinks it is cool.
I don’t get teased, I’m twice these kids ages 8)
nah there’s one thing I really dislike is when people ask to try my throws when they haven’t even the slightest idea how to throw it.
so I try and stay nice, explain that these are expensive yoyos and that a person who doesn’t know how to throw is very likely to break them. if I have a cheap plastic with me, I let them give a go at that one.
the thing I always does is to invite them to visit my website (which is easy to find on google and easy to remember as in “yoyo” and “france” ^^)
the website is also meant for non yoyoers, we got videos, interesting interviews (that aren’t all about yoyoing, but of interesting yoyoing characters such as Ed haponik or Mark Montgomery)
it’s important to show people that yoyoing is not only about doing tricks with a yoyo.
I was asked to “walk the baby” so I asked him what and he said it again so I did rock the baby and he was happy. C=
I don’t mind it much just hate when I’m asked how much my yoyo cost and then they freak on me.
You don’t have to tell them! How about saying, “Not much considering how often I use it” or “It’s cheaper than video games.”
The response you get will be based on the information you supply.
Good answer! Non escalating nor confrontational. It just brings things back into perspective. Consider the price of a new yo wrt a round of golf, a day of skiing, or a day @ the water slides. Yoing is cheap!
Hey hadoq,
I visited your website. Looks very interesting but my french is very bad. Being Hatian American, I only speak Kryeol, cannot read or write French (my lost).
Question I hate to be asked the most?
Wow, can I have a try ?
Answer: No (unless I have a cheap plastic on me to share). Its easier to say than most think.
a lot of yoyos aren’t cheaper than video games though…
nor rounds of golf. or a day at a theme park (unless that theme park is disneyland or universal)
just sayin’.
Figure it as cost per hour! Yoyo wins.
When they ask how much my 888x is, they flip out then I say "well u pay 150$ for a video game wen it first comes out, but then get tired of it in a week. I pay that much for a yoyo and play with it for months. I win.
I work with a guy that spends $120+ per fortnight on Beer and Smokes.
He thinks it is crazy I spent $180 getting a YYR Dreadnought G almost a year ago.
I use it every day.
D
here you go, english section (smaller tho)
http://yoyo-france.net/category/in-english/
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I hate it when people ask this question “What is your best trick”? I think to myself what IS your best trick.
To do walk the dog when they watch me do better trick’s.
I went to Knott’s Scary Farm yesterday for my birthday, and as I was waiting for my girlfriend to buy something i was outside yoyoing, two guys, probably in their early 20’s, come up to me and one of them actually knew his stuff when it came to yoyos(:
But alas, the other guy, as Stevensbox said, asks; “Dude that’s awesome! Can I try?!”
Not knowing what to answer, since i thought saying no would be rude, i tried to ignore it, (with a loud enviroment like Knott’s, it’s easy to pretend you didn’t hear someone.) then the other dude jumps in and changes the conversation. I’m guessing he knew what it’s like to be asked that. 
This annoys me so much- “How do you do that?”
To the general public, walk the dog is your best trick. You want to change thier mind, the simpler the better. I’ve found the gyroscopic flop to revolutions to be the best thing to throw at a new-to-yoyo crowd.
why? that is a compliment. they are truly amazed at what you can do.
This doesn’t really annoy me so much as I really don’t have a good answer.
“what is like your hardest most sickest trick that you have, can you show me that?”
Just never able to pick a good one and since I mostly love very long combos it isn’t practical.
When people ask me that, I usually do ballista. Neck wraps or pretty much any kind of wraps in general seem to amaze people.
inb4 people complain about necro
What are you doing on our balcony and why don’t you put your pants back on?
lol
I hate it when they say “is that one of those special yoyo’s?” with a look on there face like I have a bearing in my yoyo and some how that make it land on the correct string when I’m doing double or nothing - yeah like the bearing is doing all the work, ok I know it’s helping.
then of course there is the wife- “how many of those do you have?” Me- I might get “one” more
The Co Worker- “Those cost how much?” “you should have got a Duncan” Me- (thinking) I should of stayed in school so I could have a bigger office to yo in at work