Some kid asked if I would stop complaining about 2 Chainz playing at Lollapalooza and give myself a concussion as I was doing a trapeze today. It was kinda funny because we were in PE
Funny, it never really struck me that the name derived from the reciprocating motion usually associated with it, although I suppose that makes sense in a way. I always thought of the yoyo as one entity, not an up and a down conjoined by a hyphen.
Okay, I’ve got three stupid / strange things people have said to me while I was yo-yoing:
About a year ago, my friend Nico and I were yo-yoing in a park and some kids saw us. They were convinced the yoyos were electric, so we took them apart to show them that it was not so. They then said there were little batteries in them, so we threw them down and waited until the yoyos ran out of sleep to prove that they were now electric. They said we pushed hidden buttons on the string to make them stop. Yes, some people are that stupid.
I was yo-yoing just before my orchestra practice, and some of the other orchestra members saw me. They weren’t sure if it was even a yoyo, so I explained all about it and the different styles. One girl still doesn’t believe its a yoyo.
I am teaching my fried to yoyo, and one of the grade 8’s came up and said: "Woah! Those yoyos spin?!? Normal yoyos don’t do that, do they?
Some little kid said “sooooo… yoyoing is kind of like archery, right?”. I said “it’s exactly like archery” in the most sincere voice possible. Mr.Yoyoguy and Apollo were there