Discussion: So at some point you'll be ...

So at some point you'll be the one on the unicycle and he'll be the one with his fingers crossed?

I'm the one who has been forbidden to try unicycling.

How about tri-unicycling? That's not so dangerous.

(Do you remember the line in Yellow Submarine about the two-eyed giant?)

Two eyed giant? Alas, I don't.

Ringo: Look, there's a cyclops!
Paul(?): It's not a cyclops, it's got two eyes.
Ringo: Must be a bicyclops.

From WikiQuote:

George: Hey! There's a Cyclops!
Paul: Can't be. It's got two eyes.
John: Must be a "bicycle-ops" then.
Ringo: There's another one.
John: A whole "cyclopedia"!

Your 45 year-old memory is pretty accurate!

My memory is pretty good, but J-J's is in another class entirely.

It's pretty remarkable that I remember anything from that movie given the circumstances under which I saw it.

Well, I don't think I ever saw it, which may account in part for my memory lapse. I was certainly familiar with the eponymous song.

A unicyclist showed up in Laramie last year. When I first saw him, I was stunned, never having seen a unicyclist before, much less one in Laramie. And I immediately thought of Charlie. And when I saw him most recently, a few weeks back, again I immediately thought of Charlie.

And if Zack could master the thing, I see little reason why Charlie could not, too. After all: "Like son, like father."