Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

A few months ago I was down the pub with a tiled mini type C in my pocket sitting at a table.
A friend comes over with a scrambled GuHong (with the exact same tiled colour scheme) and the bartender.
He gives me the cube, I look at it for a couple of seconds put it under the table, start doing random moves and pull out the solved mini type C.
The bartender says "What? No!" and walks away. I assumed he noticed the size difference and thought nothing more of it.

I was reintroduced to him last night and he says "I know you, you're the Rubik genius who can solve a cube in less than 10 seconds under a table".
At this point I explain to him what I had done and that I thought he noticed the size difference.
He responds "Oh no. I've gone round telling everyone I know that I saw you solve a cube without looking in a few seconds"
 
cube-o-holic said:
A few months ago I was down the pub with a tiled mini type C in my pocket sitting at a table.
A friend comes over with a scrambled GuHong (with the exact same tiled colour scheme) and the bartender.
He gives me the cube, I look at it for a couple of seconds put it under the table, start doing random moves and pull out the solved mini type C.
The bartender says "What? No!" and walks away. I assumed he noticed the size difference and thought nothing more of it.

I was reintroduced to him last night and he says "I know you, you're the Rubik genius who can solve a cube in less than 10 seconds under a table".
At this point I explain to him what I had done and that I thought he noticed the size difference.
He responds "Oh no. I've gone round telling everyone I know that I saw you solve a cube without looking in a few seconds"
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It's better if it's a set-up cube.
 
cube-o-holic said:
A few months ago I was down the pub with a tiled mini type C in my pocket sitting at a table.
A friend comes over with a scrambled GuHong (with the exact same tiled colour scheme) and the bartender.
He gives me the cube, I look at it for a couple of seconds put it under the table, start doing random moves and pull out the solved mini type C.
The bartender says "What? No!" and walks away. I assumed he noticed the size difference and thought nothing more of it.

I was reintroduced to him last night and he says "I know you, you're the Rubik genius who can solve a cube in less than 10 seconds under a table".
At this point I explain to him what I had done and that I thought he noticed the size difference.
He responds "Oh no. I've gone round telling everyone I know that I saw you solve a cube without looking in a few seconds"
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lol.
 
I've had this weird and rather annoying experience. There's this despo friend of mine (dunno if that term's popular, but here in india, or mumbai atleast, a despo's like supa-horny-chick-o-holic-bragster-who'll-do-anything-to-get-laid guy) who keeps making a big fuss about the cube. He makes a lot of noise when I solve so he can attract girls and then finds ways to get smooth with them. The annoying part is when he keep yelling 'he solves it in 20 seconds without even looking!' i'm sick of telling him I cant bld. I guess it's because I don't really look while doing my pll... It's irritating nonetheless...
 
I was telling my friend about my cubing. He seemed interested, so I told him about Fridrich and F2L. So i showed him my QJ 2x3x3. And he said "Oh that's nice, you should use that to practice your F2L."

This isn't a total facepalm, but It seems silly to us. Looking back we all remember a time when we were that n00bish.
 
After work I hang out in the lobby while waiting for my co-worker (we ride to work together but I get off a half hour before he does). While waiting I'll either be juggling or cubing depending on how I feel that day. From where I stand the only people that can see me are folks walking towards the bathrooms and co-workers in the offices near by. My co-worker are at this point unphased about the cubing and juggling however I will occassionally get a comment (usually about my juggling) from a customer heading towards the restroom.

Yesterday while sitting in the lobby with my 3x3 I saw a young girl about 9 or 10 and her father walking towards the bathrooms stop dead in their tracks and watch me. As I finished that solve (33.46sec) the little girls looked at my cube then up at her dad and said, "See, I told you those things were fixable! The one on your dresser isn't broken, you just don't know how to do it!" He gave a sigh and rolled his eyes a bit. She then looked at me and said "Just so you know, you're cooler than my dad!"

She then walked off towards the bathroom. The dad came up to me, shook my hand and said "Thanks for being here, now I actually have an excuse to sit down and learn to solve the thing." We shook hands, he asked a few questions and went on his way.
 
unirox13 said:
After work I hang out in the lobby while waiting for my co-worker (we ride to work together but I get off a half hour before he does). While waiting I'll either be juggling or cubing depending on how I feel that day. From where I stand the only people that can see me are folks walking towards the bathrooms and co-workers in the offices near by. My co-worker are at this point unphased about the cubing and juggling however I will occassionally get a comment (usually about my juggling) from a customer heading towards the restroom.

Yesterday while sitting in the lobby with my 3x3 I saw a young girl about 9 or 10 and her father walking towards the bathrooms stop dead in their tracks and watch me. As I finished that solve (33.46sec) the little girls looked at my cube then up at her dad and said, "See, I told you those things were fixable! The one on your dresser isn't broken, you just don't know how to do it!" He gave a sigh and rolled his eyes a bit. She then looked at me and said "Just so you know, you're cooler than my dad!"

She then walked off towards the bathroom. The dad came up to me, shook my hand and said "Thanks for being here, now I actually have an excuse to sit down and learn to solve the thing." We shook hands, he asked a few questions and went on his way.
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That's hilarious
 
unirox13 said:
After work I hang out in the lobby while waiting for my co-worker (we ride to work together but I get off a half hour before he does). While waiting I'll either be juggling or cubing depending on how I feel that day. From where I stand the only people that can see me are folks walking towards the bathrooms and co-workers in the offices near by. My co-worker are at this point unphased about the cubing and juggling however I will occassionally get a comment (usually about my juggling) from a customer heading towards the restroom.

Yesterday while sitting in the lobby with my 3x3 I saw a young girl about 9 or 10 and her father walking towards the bathrooms stop dead in their tracks and watch me. As I finished that solve (33.46sec) the little girls looked at my cube then up at her dad and said, "See, I told you those things were fixable! The one on your dresser isn't broken, you just don't know how to do it!" He gave a sigh and rolled his eyes a bit. She then looked at me and said "Just so you know, you're cooler than my dad!"

She then walked off towards the bathroom. The dad came up to me, shook my hand and said "Thanks for being here, now I actually have an excuse to sit down and learn to solve the thing." We shook hands, he asked a few questions and went on his way.
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Lol. Child win. ^_^
 
For an English assignment a few weeks ago, I included cubing. Towards the beginning I wrote 'Rubik's Cube'. When I got the assignment back, he had crossed out 'Rubik's' and written 'Rubix'.
 
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