Team Unicycle

I was taking the bus into school today. I was just crossing Kingsway heading into Joyce station when I noticed two unicyclers crossing the intersection. I figured that they were coming back from 7-11 across the street because they each had a slurpy and identical bags hanging from their sides which I assumed were candy. The first thing that struck me was their confidence unicycling across a busy street. They seemed to be chatting it up and their slurpies made the whole thing really casual. I was impressed, but thought they were a little foolish with their helmets not strapped on properly.

The hill on that street gets pretty steep after crossing Kingsway and I was wondering how they would deal with it. They already seemed so relaxed but I didn't think they'd be able to handle the steepness. They appeared to be going down fine at first. These kids couldn't have been more than 17 from what I could see. Here they are starting down this steep hill and all of a sudden one of them loses control. Their balance was thrown off momentarily. Through some fluky accident the guy starts to flail and somehow manages to fling his slurpy out into the street.

I couldn't see too clearly from where the bus was waiting but I'm pretty sure the slurp hit a car that was waiting at the light. The driver had just half opened his door and was starting to get out when the light changed and cars started honking behind him. The one unicycler had recovered his balance by then and both of them looked like they were ready to run for it. The driver didn't have any choice so he had to take off with the rest of traffic and the unicylers started back up on their single wheels and continued along their way. At this point I was quite amused and looked around and the other passengers on the bus, wearing an obvious smirk. No one else seemed to have noticed though and I was really disappointed. I consider myself very fortunate to have witnessed such a fluky event but it is sad that more people weren't able to get in on the excitement. It was great.