Crazy Responses From People who have never seen a lacrosse stick

[TheDarkRestrict]

Have any you guys gotten replies from people like on the street about your stick you're carrying around? I don't know if it just happens cause I'm in Utah or what.... Just post your crazy replies here are mine:

-When I first got my stick, my dad thought it was a spectators cup :lol:
-I've have several people ask me if I was going to catch butterflies with my d shaft.

[Dadabhoy_Muzzi]

I was carrying my goalie stick around and a kid asked me if I was cleaning the pool out. HAHAHA. Another kid asked me how many fishes I cought and this was at school.

[Mad-Max]

One person asked me if I used it to play cruiqet (sp?).

I just kind of stood there and eventually said no its a lacrosse stick.

[bobtrack]

Lots of people always tell me "hey I saw you today with you lacrosse raquet"

[gigo567]

A women asked if my stick was used for a new kind of sport. I was ready to choke her but instead I walked off without answering.

[goalieskcickay]

Lots of people always tell me "hey I saw you today with you lacrosse raquet"

I hate that. It's my pet peeve. At a camp I went to, I got a ton of kids into lacrosse, and recently got a letter from the director, "All the Sorenson boys have bought LaCrosse Raquets..."

[TheDarkRestrict]

nice replies.
I also hate how people, like my dad, call it a raquet.... so dumb it's a phr33k3n stick :banghead:

[kryptic]

In our school newspaper last year, they thought it was a 'butterfly net-like thing"

[laxattack8888]

Yeah, and when my dad pretends to know if I strung a head well he beats my new pockets out and he says something prematrue and stupid like "nice job stringing your raquet" and I immediately get that fire in my eyes like "you have just signed your death warrant dad". Talk about a pet peeve.

[AttackMan17]

WOW!! That pouch on your raquet is crazy!
My idiot neighbor.

And another, this one at school.(from a teacher) Im going to have to ask you to leave your bat with me for the rest of the day.

[BTlaxripper]

Yeah, and when my dad pretends to know if I strung a head well he beats my new pockets out and he says something prematrue and stupid like "nice job stringing your raquet" and I immediately get that fire in my eyes like "you have just signed your death warrant dad". Talk about a pet peeve.

Respect your dad.

Children disrespecting their parents is MY pet peeve.

He's obviously trying to bond with you and take interest in something you love. So you should say:

"Thanks dad, I took a lot of time stringing, glad you like it."

done and done

[Mad-Max]

And another, this one at school.(from a teacher) Im going to have to ask you to leave your bat with me for the reat of the day.

Similar to that, last year me and my friend both brought our sticks to school, and in the halls he took the ball out of my bag. I, just messing around, came down on his stick and he dropped it. A teacher saw me hit his stick and almost gave me detention.

[moondog]

"Are those SNOWSHOES?" I thought they stopped making those??

I have BIG cross-sticks tattoo on my left ankle. They look EXACTLY like lacrosse sticks (from the "old-school" STX logo)
--People ask me about TENNIS RACKETS...

[JoshM]

I've never had anybody call my lacrosse stick anything other than that.

[TheDarkRestrict]

I've never brought a stick to highschool, but in JH they freaked out that I was carrying it around (I had a game right after) and I had to put my d-pole in the P.E. Teachers office...

[laxgod1790]

That sucks that you guys don't live in a place that lacrosse is well known. I am lucky that I live in Nj and this has never really happened to me. I commend you for staying so dedicated to the game

[TheDarkRestrict]

thanx, the cool thing is that now stores in Utah, like Big 5 and D!ck's Sporting goods, are starting to have lacrosse stuff. So I don't have to go to one of the two lacrosse stores in utah...
(the exclamation mark is being used instead of the I)

[PBLax05]

i recently bought an answer for my friend for his birthday.. when the ups guy dropped it off my mom was like, they forgot to send the bottom of the stick! i was speechless...

[TheDarkRestrict]

lol that's as good as my dad thinking sticks are spectator cups...

[faceitoff]

Yeah, and when my dad pretends to know if I strung a head well he beats my new pockets out and he says something prematrue and stupid like "nice job stringing your raquet" and I immediately get that fire in my eyes like "you have just signed your death warrant dad". Talk about a pet peeve.

That's so nice of your dad. My dad constantly warns me not to break anything.

[Jesse]

I get "Wow, you play that sport on the horse! Here do you keep your horse?"
The guy on the bus I went on to get to my uncles farm thought it was a weapon. And when I tried to take it on he grabbed me.

[ghs/wylax]

my grandfather who played in college called it a raquet.Otherwise people here know what it is.

[Jesse]

my grandfather who played in college called it a raquet.Otherwise people here know what it is.
I know a few kids that play Lacrosse still call it a raquet...

[Viperlaxer132]

A couple years ago I'd get comments like, "Oh cool, you play jai alai?" But now everyone in Fort Collins knows what lax is. People that don't even play lacrosse are starting to wear Vipers shirts at my school and some girls wear guys team jackets occasionally.

[Mrmccoolsatool]

my aunt from mississippi called it a broomstick.

[truste1]

I've just been asked what sport it's for. That's about it.

[THALAX]

When my dad first saw a lacrosse shaft he thought it was a wierd looking cane.

[laxgirl45]

aw that bugs me when people call them a raquet...

I've had people say "what are you trying to catch?" or "whats that for?"
but theres been people who say whats that for and then i say lacrosse, who dont even know what lacrosse is. its sad :( haha

[James]

I hate it when people call the pocket a net. Its not as stupid as some of the things you guys have said but i hate it.

[Kegger]

I was in an airport with all of my equipment going to a tournament or coming back from one and some lame guy says “I know you play hockey were are you going to play at”. My response was I used to play hockey but not for a few years now. The gut stood there with a dumb look on his face then I told it was lacrosse equipment and he walked away very confused.

[ilaxitup007]

I live in southeastern PA where lax is pretty popular and i get comments every once in a while.

mostly like..."oh, you play THAT sport. what is it called again?"
sometimes i get like,"can i see that"

[ekajsk8er]

The teachers in my school concider it a weapon, so i have to keep it in the front office. Also this kid in the hallway called it a ball launcher. Kids these days...

[ColtsLax]

when i was in england last summer, i was throwing against a wall, and someone saw me and called the cops. the cops wanted to take it away because they thought i was trying to break windows and stuff.

I told the what it was, and that england has a national team, they had no clue.

[FallIntoIt]

See, I never get people not knowing what a lacrosse stick is, but I always get questioned as to why my goalie stick looks so much different from all the others. I always want to say, "Oh, I play lacrosse in the special olympics"

[gigo567]

I brought a lacrosse head to school to show my friend my new stringing and some kid is like
"what is that?"
And i said"it is a lacrosse head"
Then he says"what's lacrosse"
So I quietly said "Retard says what"
His response was "what?!?"

[bloodilax977]

Yeah. Probobly 109487059843750438957 of your have heard...
"Do you get all your doggies doo with that?" So annoying...

[RottingMind13]

Sr. year of hs some old foreign guy askd me if it was a fishing net and when i said no, he asked if it was to catch butterflies. (goalie stick) I said it was a lacrosse stick and he said o and walked away looking disappointed

[shoebag2000]

My aunt continually calls it a net. And when I brought it to school last year, my teacher kept calling it a raquet. Oh yeah, and the best one. My friend saw some pictures from the Arizona Sting on my binder, and he looks at me and says "hey, is this rugby?"

[Diesel4958]

Wow, some of those are sad. But imagine trying to explain it to a people in a country where there is literally one league, and almost no one has heard of it. They don't get it, which is understandable when a ton of people in the states don't even have a clue about it.

[FallIntoIt]

My aunt continually calls it a net. And when I brought it to school last year, my teacher kept calling it a raquet. Oh yeah, and the best one. My friend saw some pictures from the Arizona Sting on my binder, and he looks at me and says "hey, is this rugby?"

Oh the Sting~

Have you ever noticed how that scorpion too closely resembles a lobster?

[shoebag2000]

Ummmmm, no?

That is pretty much what a scorpian looks like, or do you mean because of the color?

[Laxin2266]

I was at a baseball game at my cousins school last year (my school now) and I had my lax stick with me and the principal said to me "Man, thats a funny looking baseball bat"

[GBaschski]

Me and my bud were walking around a local shopping center with our sticks, and we passed by this homeless guy and he says "Hey, isn't that the sport that you kill each other? Rugby or somethin like that?"

[lokiinspired]

An old guy down the street asked if I was having fun catching butterlies but he was joking... I hope. But for the most part, no one talks to me when I'm out playing wall ball or anything. Weird looks, yes, but they never say anything.

I still give major props to the guy who pulled up beside me in his car and said "Lacrosse kicks ***!" then promply drove away. I was just like "You rock."

[nemesis562]

my dad is funny, hes a smart guy and picked up on the sport even though hes never played it. he always tells me how hes gonna "smoke it past my off hip" so he actually knows what hes talking about.

[Monzo]

my dad, who has been exposed to lacrosse for a few years now, still calls it a raquet. and he always finds ways to ruin my pocket.

but he can ruin my pocket all he wants because i broke a window and he didn't even yell at me. and i am very grateful.

[_lax4life_]

When i practice wall ball outside, i occasionally get honks from the cars that drive by.... :) I think they are either saying LAX RULES!!! or LAX SUCKS!!!

[moondog]

"Oh...WOW!" "I didn't know we had a RUGBY team around here!" "That's GREAT!"

[FitzGoalie]

"yo, is that one of them Cross-Country Sticks?"

[FallIntoIt]

Ummmmm, no?

That is pretty much what a scorpian looks like, or do you mean because of the color?


Its pincers are too big for a scorpion in my opinion. It looks too lobster-like. But yeah, the color is probably what reinforces this thought in my head.

[laxgod1790]

"yo, is that one of them Cross-Country Sticks?"

Hahaha that one is great. Cross Country wtf?!?!?!?! :nut:

[marflax33]

My dad, just to annoy me, calls it a butterfly net. lol.

[shoebag2000]

Its pincers are too big for a scorpion in my opinion. It looks too lobster-like. But yeah, the color is probably what reinforces this thought in my head.

Oh, yeah, I guess when you look at it that way it actually does kinda look lobster-esque. Whatever, I still think they have one of the best logos in the NLL.

[jrmelax16]

a lot of people around my area know what it is. but one guy was asking me all of these questions on it, like how high does lacrosse go...he meant level. then my neighbor and i were talking about it he kept insisting that lacrosse originated in Britain, he said he seen it when he was in the war. lol i dont know which war though.

[craig21]

well me n my dad were laxin in our backyard and this lady and like 3 kids walk up to us and asked if we were playing badminton. i cut em some slack cuz they are from florida but badminton come on.

[AttackMan17]

I just remembered that my other idiot neighbor told me that he has never played the cross ball before and that he didnt have a the cross ball bat.

[TheDarkRestrict]

Most people around my town don't know what lacrosse is... so I don't get any honks, just wierd looks....
About the weapon thing, it's kind of true (well the way I use it) :angry:
goalie heads always get considered as fishing nets for some wierd reason...
Any more replies?

[TheNino57]

goalie heads always get considered as fishing nets for some wierd reason...


^^Well that would be because goalie sticks look just like a fancy fishing net.

On my girlfriend's club team, a prospective player came out for the practice and gave it a try. After practice, as she hands my girlfriend her backup stick the player says "Thanks. Here's your Paddle back."

[hankooklax]

A little kid at my house the other day asked if my sticks were for fishing. by the end of the day he said that the stick was too heavy... its a cyber with db803 that my bro uses

[roycegracie47]

Outside of Wheeling, WV after a game I was asked in a restaraunt if Lacrosse was "that gmae with the basket on the sticks".

And then there's what the infallable George Carlin had to say about the sport...

[lokiinspired]

"yo, is that one of them Cross-Country Sticks?"
Definitely a classic. I was talking to my old fifth grade teacher once when I was heading over to play wall ball and I had a lacrosse shirt on and she was squinting at it and was like "so what, you're in cross-country now?" I'll have you know that my shirt says in very big letters: "Girls Lacrosse" :banghead:

[WHEELAX2]

Outside of Wheeling, WV after a game I was asked in a restaraunt if Lacrosse was "that gmae with the basket on the sticks".

And then there's what the infallable George Carlin had to say about the sport...


good 'ol Wheeling WV...

[cbhslacrossemid]

I was at a baseball game at my cousins school last year (my school now) for a memorial and I had my lax stick with me and the principal Brother Gary said to me "Man, thats a funny looking baseball bat"

Do you go to a Christian Brothers/de laSalle School, considering you have a Brother as a principal.

[MVHSlax14]

well me n my dad were laxin in our backyard and this lady and like 3 kids walk up to us and asked if we were playing badminton. i cut em some slack cuz they are from florida but badminton come on.
hey i just moved back to colorado from florida and lax isnt really that big down there yet. but ive been asked weird stuff like,
"hey isn't that an american indian sport, i think its called hurling"
i just wanted to slap check his face... grrrrr :hot: :hot: :guns: :guns:

[slinkyspine]

I was playing wall ball afterschool and my math teacher, my science teacher and the principal came out and they watched for a bit then my math teacher said "I remember that game" and the other two said "yeah too bad you blow Belyk." I dropped the ball cause I was laughing so hard.

[SJmiddi]

about every kid knows what lacrosse is in my school (i live in NJ) but one kid in my gym class was talking bout lacrosse and was like, "hey you have one of those sticks with the basket/net things at the end right?". i cut him some slack and corrected him instead of punching him cause he just moved here from the south and it wasnt that know of where he was from.

[punkerdude123]

im not joking at all when i say this, just so you know

i live in nyc, twenty minutes away from long island (which is way cooler than md for lax :nut: ) and i would think that people would have a vague idea what the sport is, but some lady on the B9 (thats a bus in brooklyn) asked "what sport is that? Air Hockey?" i did all i could from laughing in her face, but unlike some people, ::cough cough gigo cough cough:: i kindly explained to her what it was, and gave her the basic "it came from the natives" briefing, and she was off on her happy russian way.

other than that, my math teacher constantly call it a racquet, and other people in bklyn generally dont know what it is...what a disappointment(sp?).

im not sure if the woman was trying to make an analogy, as in "is that like air hockey?" but if she was, i totally missed the like.

[NF Lax23----<o)]

when you think about it lax is kind of like hockey in the air. Instead of puting the stick down you hold it up right and instead of passing the ball on the ice you pass in the air. Dumb idea, just thought I might point that out...

[LoveableME]

I was throwing around with a pal and i was wearing gloves and he wasn't. A girl comes up and asks: those are some cool gloves, are you the goalie?

[lVlike]

When I went to get my first stick my dad called it a net and he said, make sure you get a lefty one.
Edit: I almost forgot, but also when I brought it into school everyone was staring at me like I was holding a weapon.
Another time I was at some kids house and he played lax so i brought my stick ober so we could throw, and the kidfs grandma was like where did this sport come from and I said the native Americans, and she said no it sounds French it came from France, it is too new to have come from the Native Americans. No matter how hard I tried to convince her she thought it was from France. So long story short why would she ask if she just made her own assumption? I don't know but whatever.

[demongoalie]

Around here most people know what lacrosseis or at least have some idea, but about two years ago when I came to school with my goalie stick a kid asked me why my "net" was so big. He thought it was because I sucked and needed a bigger one to catch.

[ekajsk8er]

I was throwing around with a pal and i was wearing gloves and he wasn't. A girl comes up and asks: those are some cool gloves, are you the goalie?

Well, in girls lacrosse the goalie is the only one who wears gloves so that may have been where that was coming from.

[Laxin2266]

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[laxlegend]

When I got my first stick, I went down to the park with my Dad, and when I threw the head came off (don't know why it came without a screw). At first, my Dad was convinced that I'd broken it, then, when he saw the screw-hole, he went home and rang up my coack to ask how long it takes to ship an "American-style screw" here (I live in Australia).

Also, when a family friend saw one for the first time she thought it was a cup on a stick! and when me and my friend brought ours to school a few times in a week, a guy felt the hardness of the ball and figured it must be very un-bouncy, so he leant over and threw it at the ground. It bounced up very fast and hit him in the face. Later that day, me and my friend were throwing on the way out of our school, and our principal (she's the biggest b!tch) came out and told us that she was sick of us bringing these "silly, dangerous, little lolly-pops on sticks" to school!!

[BClax17]

Once I was heading up to the school to play some wall ball and some old ladies stopped me to see that "mask" I was holding. Another peeve about my stick is people calling the mesh, "webbing".

[laxattack1616]

When I restring a new stick my mom is like "I don't know why you always take the web off and put it back on. You cant do better than the factory did it so just leave it alone youre wasting your time!"

[superlaxman2]

I've had mine called a raquet, a net, and the pocket has been called a pouch at least four times. My dad actually knows what I am talking about. People at my school say I am addicted to lacrosse and i need a hobby. I just laugh because there are three people who always tell me that and they are addicted to Dungeons and Dragons and have spent over 300 dolars on strategy books, and have also lost grip on reality.

[gulliverlax07]

I live in south florida, lacrosse is just was just "reconized" as a sport last year and still isn't sanctioned sport, but anyways back when i was at middle school (last year) our principle would make us, as soon as we get to school put our lacrosse sticks in the locker room and if we didn't we would get it taken away for the rest of the day, including after school so we would miss practice or a game, and if we didn't we would get detenions

[Z12/AM]

the one thing everyone says to me and my buds is "that's like an over-sized cup on a stick." they're lucky i felt sorry for them b/c most of them are baseball players. why do i live in vegas? why are people so dumb?

[punkerdude123]

When I went to get my first stick my dad called it a net and he said, make sure you get a lefty one.
Edit: I almost forgot, but also when I brought it into school everyone was staring at me like I was holding a weapon.
Another time I was at some kids house and he played lax so i brought my stick ober so we could throw, and the kidfs grandma was like where did this sport come from and I said the native Americans, and she said no it sounds French it came from France, it is too new to have come from the Native Americans. No matter how hard I tried to convince her she thought it was from France. So long story short why would she ask if she just made her own assumption? I don't know but whatever.

you shoulda been like 'yo granny ho! its a native american game, but the french named it. the named it because the sticks look like the Crosse` that bishops hold. therefore, la Crosse`, the cross!' and thats what i call a granny smack

[gigo567]

im not joking at all when i say this, just so you know

i live in nyc, twenty minutes away from long island (which is way cooler than md for lax :nut: ) and i would think that people would have a vague idea what the sport is, but some lady on the B9 (thats a bus in brooklyn) asked "what sport is that? Air Hockey?" i did all i could from laughing in her face, but unlike some people, ::cough cough gigo cough cough:: i kindly explained to her what it was, and gave her the basic "it came from the natives" briefing, and she was off on her happy russian way.

other than that, my math teacher constantly call it a racquet, and other people in bklyn generally dont know what it is...what a disappointment(sp?).

im not sure if the woman was trying to make an analogy, as in "is that like air hockey?" but if she was, i totally missed the like.

So I guess I am the A-Hole of the website now... Great. Now I will have lax players wanting to kill me.

[auslax_goalie]

I was carrying my goalie stick around and a kid asked me if I was cleaning the pool out. HAHAHA. Another kid asked me how many fishes I cought and this was at school.
dude i get that all the time the other one is from chicks who see us all with sticks and me with a goal stick say is that a handicapped stick :banghead:

[b-waterlax]

you shoulda been like 'yo granny ho! its a native american game, but the french named it. the named it because the sticks look like the Crosse` that bishops hold. therefore, la Crosse`, the cross!' and thats what i call a granny smack
is that really how it was named? i knew it was created by the native americans but not how it was named.

most people i know, know what lax is becauswe of me :clap:, but they all say it weird, like "la-kross" or "la-crosh" kinda pisses me off.
also my parents dont understand why some sticks are better than others or why i need a different stick for rain games, o well, they will learn

[faceitoff]

is that really how it was named? i knew it was created by the native americans but not how it was named.

most people i know, know what lax is becauswe of me :clap:, but they all say it weird, like "la-kross" or "la-crosh" kinda pisses me off.
also my parents dont understand why some sticks are better than others or why i need a different stick for rain games, o well, they will learn

1. I pronounce it "la-kross."
2. I don't use a rain stick.

[longsticklax124]

one time this guy asked me how i broke my foot and i said playing lacrosse and he goes whats that like motorcycles or something?

[shoebag2000]

Haha, he probably got it confused with Motocross.

[b-waterlax]

Around here most people know what lacrosseis or at least have some idea, but about two years ago when I came to school with my goalie stick a kid asked me why my "net" was so big. He thought it was because I sucked and needed a bigger one to catch.
the K means they stress the c in lacrosse and i know not everyone nedds a rain stick, but some do

[tomahawks11]

fortunately it hasent happened yet for me but when it does...

[RockfordAttack9]

My Dad is also a case of the many Parents/People that use the word "Raquet".

[d-polejoe42]

i get a lot of:Oh you play field hockey?

[GRLAXSTR19]

ive had a lady tell me this game reminds her of quidditch before (wtf?) so i just said yea sure i guess (w/e)

[gigo567]

Person 1 'hey is that a pooper scooper'
lax 2 'yeah it is a pooper scooper'
p1 'then what is the netting used for?'
l1 'to allow me to hit morons with poop, just like you!'

[Lax1228]

Person 1 'hey is that a pooper scooper'
lax 2 'yeah it is a pooper scooper'
p1 'then what is the netting used for?'
l1 'to allow me to hit morons with poop, just like you!'
Hahahah thats great.

I get a lot of looks and few people that think it is a hockey stick :WTF: , although most people here in NC know what lacrosse is.

[Expressgoalie01]

ive had a lady tell me this game reminds her of quidditch before (wtf?) so i just said yea sure i guess (w/e)

I hate that when people say stuff like that and you have to go along with it by saying yea or something like that.

[laxrat22]

there is this gangster black guy that my friend used to play basketball with and he always asks him if he still plays quiditch

and some douchebag always says "hey you gonna go catch some butter flies today"

[rjattack19]

every one always says that the head looks like a cup!!! i hate it so much!!! but what i hate even more is when people ask me Q's 2bout it and then other people anwser 4 me and they have absolutly no clue what the hell they r tlking bout!!!

[FPDefense]

Someone gave me their stick to string at school and I had it in math class and my teacher asked if it was a bicycle seat. And of course my dad calls it a racket.

[tlaing22]

when I was in Louisiana, I was asked if Lacrosse was a religious group because in French, lacrosse = The Cross.

[Liv4LaX]

there were exchange students from france here and they asked what was that in my hand, i didnt ko how to answer because ive never had that asked, i live in ny and lacrosse is pretty big, so i just said a lacrosse stick...she smiled and said she like lacrosse, and motioned as baseball player lol i was nice though i sorta tought here how to throw n catch...plus she was hot....

[ExiledinIN]

Back in HS, I was standing around w/ 3 of my attack friends while holding my D-Pole. Friend comes by and takes my stick, and asks, "Why is your stick so big?" *cough* While stroking it.

[ekajsk8er]

As taken from my Literature book,

"A long raquet with a pouch attatched to the end, used to catch a rubber ball."

Raquet? Pouch? A? Literature is now on my hit list.

[OwlsLax2]

people call my sticks either fishing nets or this one time i brought an unstrung head to school and a girl asked me how big of bubbles it made when i put it in the soap stuff.

[vroom125]

people ask me what sport it is for. When I say lacrosse, they have no idea what I'm talking about. I go to a smal school, so most people know what it is when I'm at school.

[KnightsLAXDad]

As taken from my Literature book,

"A long raquet with a pouch attatched to the end, used to catch a rubber ball."

Raquet? Pouch? Literature is now on my hit list.

At Chapters/Indigo (the Canadian version of Barnes and Noble) lacrosse books are classified under "raquet sports" with tennis etc :whyme:

[KnightsLAXDad]

As I was standing in line at the airport in Kansas City, wearing a "Knights Lacrosse" jacket, I was asked if I was travelling back to Wisconsin. The person presumed I was from LaCrosse WI.

[ReLaxin 13]

Same thing around here, everybody asks "Isn't Lacrosse a city in Wisconsin?" Nobody really has a clue what it is here.

[faceitoff]

this one time i brought an unstrung head to school and a girl asked me how big of bubbles it made when i put it in the soap stuff.

HAHAHAHA... actually, she has a point. I bet they'd be huge.

[vcu_lax20]

i'll be walking around with my stick on the streets of richmond and people will ask me, "soo... you play polo?"

[WClax17]

I was at the wall once and a guy said "Oh you play that one sport." and if that is not bad enough he then says "Actually you don't know what you're doing, you are just throwing the ball at the wall, not the actual game?" i just smiled. :nut:

[LaxLlama8]

In our school newspaper last year, they thought it was a 'butterfly net-like thing"
Lol, that is really funny. Sometimes, when I say I'm gonna string a stick they think I mean weaving the mesh, literally making the mesh by hand.

[Garor]

"Are you going to play polo with that?"

Yeah, my horse is already at school.

[laxpro]

thanx, the cool thing is that now stores in Utah, like Big 5 and D!ck's Sporting goods, are starting to have lacrosse stuff. So I don't have to go to one of the two lacrosse stores in utah...
(the exclamation mark is being used instead of the I)
i know exactly what your talking about and they don't know anything about lacrosse,
oh i love it when they misprint the price tags mmmmmmmm...

[mdawg]

"thats a small fishing net!"
"thats a fancy walking stick!"
"is that net made for holding beverages?"

[denverlax25]

in 8th grade i had this idiot ask me: "lacrosse huh, thats like golf isnt it"
i couldnt believe what i just heard, so i just said yeah

[robi]

One of our high school lax captains wrote in his profile thing that when he grew up in Nigeria, he didn't know what lax sticks were and once he stole one and went fishing with his friend.

[dillz18]

i live rigfht next to an indian reservation in new york so that has never happened

but those r some funny replies

[lax4life6]

"you're never gonna catch any fish with that thing!" lol

[quakerlaxattack]

Lol, that is really funny. Sometimes, when I say I'm gonna string a stick they think I mean weaving the mesh, literally making the mesh by hand.

HAHA that happens to me to

[quakerlaxattack]

i know exactly what your talking about and they don't know anything about lacrosse,
oh i love it when they misprint the price tags mmmmmmmm...

HAHA, like once i got a STX C405 Custom Alloy D-Pole for $40 at Modells :chuckle:

[laxocd]

the funnest ones ive got was i had 2 regular sticks in my hand and this girl said witch ones the goalie stick
i also got is that a catipult

[NewMillax4life]

my grandma has never heard of the sport, she thought it was some weird way of play tennis, i was like nahh

[scruffy221]

a lady at 7-11 asked my friend and i what game we play "with those nets"
adn then we said we'd show her and started passing to each other right in the middle of the 7-11... needless to say she was quite upset even though we didn't hit anything.

[Bobsch]

Raquet is common and I've heard paddle and bat. At least in Germany, people always used the right word: Schläger, even though they usually didn't know what sport it belonged to. Many people I know (all nationalities) confuse it with rugby, jai lai, polo, field and ice hockey. That wouldm't be so bad, except some people ask 'how is your polo (or rugby or hockey) team doing?' every month or so. I got tired of explaining and just said fine. The best happened a few times riding the Straßenbahn (streecar) to practice. People would get on and grab my long pole. When the train moved (and the stick moved, too), they'd freak out.

[shaOLinLaxxer]

wen i broke my wrist last year during a game, i went to the hospitale in my uniform andsomeone in the ER asked if i got hurt playing baseball...i wasnt wearin high socks or anything

[laxmcg55]

Once I was heading up to the school to play some wall ball and some old ladies stopped me to see that "mask" I was holding. Another peeve about my stick is people calling the mesh, "webbing".

I HATE WHEN PEOPLE CALL IT NETTING OR WEBBING
also i have had a guy call it a realy weird word when he saw it like i think he said nice "drask" but im not sure

[LaxCrazy17]

My friend gave me her senior picture and it said; "sorry you couldn't play LeCross, I know you love it." I was like whats LE CROSS???????!!! She just stared at me and shook her head. I also hate it, like so many of us have experienced, the butterfly net one. O I didn't know kids your age were interested in catching butterflys. Yeeeaaaaaa...

[BuckWyld]

I have a pair of sticks tattooed on my back and when I was getting some more work done the other day one of the artists asked me if they were rugby sticks.

[FPDefense]

wen i broke my wrist last year during a game, i went to the hospitale in my uniform andsomeone in the ER asked if i got hurt playing baseball...i wasnt wearin high socks or anything

How the heck? You wore shorts right? :WTF:

[TearOWrist]

Back 6 years ago when my team went to a Vail Tourny, we all had our sticks in the airport and some citydweller asked our goalie where he was planning on going fishing.

[redbirds07]

I took my stick on a trip to quebec last year, and i didnt have my shaft on my head cause i was r stringing it, and one of the teachers told me i couldnt take my beating stick into the hotel to start trouble. I just shook my head and walked inside.:whyme:

[pantherLax]

I was wallballing today at the school, and these two kids were crouching around poking at a dead squirrel. And i come by and start walling and one of the kids like 'hey he has a net on a stick' and the other is like 'i think hes practicing to catch butterflys'. haha it was very cute

[sammyduelist]

haha, funny responses
all i get is strange looks
except for a couple times where people actually know what lax is and talk to me about it
i live in the bronx, ny
people dont mess with me when i got a big ol' stick =p
its funny to try and see them trying to not look at me

[holyschnikes101]

ok you guys, dont flame me for reviving the thread, but this is a nice one and i like it. its one of my few humor supplies....

anyways...i went to school with my stick and people were like " yeah lets go play baseball" and i was like "???"

[razerman905]

funny^

yeah lots of old people on the east side (manhattan) ask me if i play hocky with that racket. :WTF:

[HOLTLAX]

this old lady on the beach without any teeth said " IS THAT HIIII-LIIII?" and i said "its lacrosse she walked away shaking her head

[tomahawks11]

phhh some people call mine a net..... "lacrosse is gay, you run around with nets" is what they tell me

[BTlaxripper]

Jai-Alai is probably the sport that is usually confused.

"Wow that's a heavy ball!" is my favorite. People think it's like a tennis ball, and I thro wit to them and they're like "ow".

[Laxer1241]

Since I live in NY most ppl know what lax is.

[vroom125]

Lol, that is really funny. Sometimes, when I say I'm gonna string a stick they think I mean weaving the mesh, literally making the mesh by hand.
Happens to me all the time

[middieman147]

when people call the head a "basket" and the mesh the "net"

[Coldfire]

I can honestly say that I am the only one in my are with a fairly large population that plays lacrosse. because i play defense the looks i get are very amusing. i once had about 3 or 4 ppl inquire to me about it in one day while walking home. its just so noticiable. i wouldn't be suprised if some ppl thought it was a cane or something.

[Coldfire]

Jai-Alai is probably the sport that is usually confused.

"Wow that's a heavy ball!" is my favorite. People think it's like a tennis ball, and I thro wit to them and they're like "ow".

yeah i've heard of that sport...kinda hard to get lax and jai-alai confused though...

[laxgoalieWE4949]

even though im from Nj some ignorent baseball players keep making fun of me soo one day they were driving home and i decided to give em a lil wake up call so i cranked one at their car and made this huge dent......the next day they tried to beat me up but they saw i had my lax stick and ran away screaming "THAT CRAZY KID HAS A CLUB!!!!"

[twhittle03]

one time i was throwing around after school and some kids parent thought i was playing rugby and asked me if it was a rugby club. i told her no its lacrosse she looked at me like i was syco i found out it was this one girls mom and now that girl never talks to me... her mom must have really thought i was syco

sometimes we practice at these tennis courts they have a big wood wall that we all play wall ball on and all the ppl walking by think its like a beginner tennis thing so u can catch it after you hit it or something

o ya also if somebody asks you to describe lacrosse how would you describe it in like 1 minute without boring them to death?

[Coldfire]

wow...a club? some ppl are just ignorant

[kevo]

I always have people come up to me when I have my stick and say" Ohh ..you play play that sport when you sit in the horse. That's awesome! Is it hard?.....I HATE THAT!!!

[lax_playa828]

yeah, I get g!rls who come up to me and are like, "Is that a cup?" I just sigh, shake my head, and walk away. I also it when people call it a "club", "raquet", or other such names. IT'S A FREAKIN' LACROSSE STICK!!!!! jeez!! :bye:

[lax_playa828]

i get people saying, "That shovel isn't very effective, is it?"

[auslax_goalie]

my dad is funny, hes a smart guy and picked up on the sport even though hes never played it. he always tells me how hes gonna "smoke it past my off hip" so he actually knows what hes talking about.
haha my dad does that aswell he got educated and bought a heap of books and always talks trash to me :nahya:

[Dutchlax]

:crazy: Man i live in holland, when i go out with my lacrosse stick I always get wierd looks and questions. IS that bad that when im goint to train or going to a game i have som flyers with me, were it explained what lacrosse is.. :) ! just one way of making lacrosse big

[kryptomiddie]

its almost illegal to cary my stick to school. i am not allowed to bring it on the bus witout permision because its a "weapon" but baseball bats and golf clubs are completly fine and not a weapon or canot be used as one at all

[brutha man X]

my mother sometimes asks me if I am going to "hit lacrosse balls" (meaning shoot). If im playing wall ball at the local school, whenver somebody indian walks by they give me a quizzical look...

[Pitibear]

no big deal, but, the French word for the bishopric staff that resembles a shepherd's crook, was la crossier, which Roman Catholic bishops have as symbols of their office because they are God's "shepherds" of their regligous "flock." The French soldiers and settlers in the areas of the original Iroquois tribes named the game they saw the natives playing after the implement used to play.

The original Iroquois word, most likely from the Seneca or Mahak tribes was "baggataway," which translates into "smaller or lesser brother of war or combat." They were using a linguistic term to describe the nature of the game, and to define it as play, in contrast to, and seperate from, the life and death of war and "real" battle.

If you watch the Daniel Day Lewis movie of a few years back, The Last of the Mohicans, you'll see the protagonist hiking with his tomahawk, his bow, and his lacrosse stick, all strung to his back, ready to join in any game he came upon in his travels from village to village.

The 18th century use of the name Mohicans, is another anglicization of the native American word Mahak, from which we also get "mohawk," especially noting the unique warrior head-dress style of the tribe.

The English settlers then transliterated the French word into Lacrosse, in general use today...Native American historians trace the game back at least six hundred years in various forms.

My mother is happy to know that four years of university training in linguistics wasn't for nothin'.

[hulllaxplayer]

people have said to me why is yours stick so much bigger than the others, is it a beginner stick
talking about my goalie stick

[pumba]

shooting strings

Why do you have shoe laces in your net?

[pcgoalie]

what's funny is if they ask you what sport you play and you give them a really long (like 20-30) minute explanation on how to play and the rules, etc.

[gaels_laxer_33]

A women asked if my stick was used for a new kind of sport. I was ready to choke her but instead I walked off without answering.
NEW SPORT man lax has been around for forever i wudv smacked whoever said that ...o man

[Piercieve]

When we were on vacation in the Virgin Islands (St. Croix), our car was robbed. They took everything, down to my little brother's $6 Aviators... But they left about $350 worth of sticks and gloves and I assume it's because they had no idea what they were, thank god. I'de just saved up some money for my vanadium shaft and had just restrung my prophecy, so that would have been awful. The security lady at the airport made us check them too, because she said that we could "fashion highly effective weapons" out of them. Eh? :dummy:

By the way, I broke 3 windows (2 really, but I took the blame for 3) in the period of about a month... no slip ups since then.

Most people I know go, "Oh, is that that sport in American Pie? Don't you catch a ball in your little net?"

How about balloon launcher? Any of you guys gotten that? Because I have. :(

Cops are edgy about having baseball bats in your car, unless you have a glove and ball in there too, so I have an aluminum shaft filled with pennies w/ a Warrior Savage head for weighted practice... I'm pretty sure I could do more damage with that.

[Piercieve]

At Chapters/Indigo (the Canadian version of Barnes and Noble) lacrosse books are classified under "raquet sports" with tennis etc :whyme:

Thats so odd, because when I think of raquet, I think of something that immediately reverses the direction of whatever it is you're hitting. To me, for something to be considered a "raquet" it must be strung sufficiently tight to perform said action. ^^

[RamLacrosse]

i was walkin down the street with my stick and should pads on and he asks if i play football.

Ive been asked Hows the tennis team going?

Also "wheres that crosse raquet"

Also with a lax tee on " wahts lacrosse, is it like polo?

[gaels_laxer_33]

Well in CAnada pretty much everyone at leest knows about lacrosse even if they dont play it but man that must be frusterating for all u guys...

[Monzo]

The other day, my bus driver said "What is that? Rugby?"
...since when do people use sticks in rugby?

[laxboy452]

******** make fun of us at camps asking us if were gonna catch butterflies

[laxgoalie65]

ive got two sticks crossed on my back with an H for my last name and whenever im at the beach and i dont have my sticks with me people tell me my tennis rackets are disproportional. i just laugh and explain that its lacrosse and its americas oldest sport....not baseball. btw i hate it when people think there nets for fishing, especially since im a goalie. ticks me off.

[HRLAXER]

fly swatter, butterfly net, fish net,

[Berserker908]

Another kid asked me how many fishes I cought and this was at school.



I had some ask me if i caught any big fish when i was carry around my Goalie stick :lol:

[laxplaya95]

one guy came up to me in the hallway while i was carrying my stick around and said" ho do you catch with all the holes in the net?" i was about to punch him, and ive gotten the butterfyl net, pool skimmer, and fishing net many times while carrying around my goalie stick

[TBAN1418]

someone asked me if i had just "made up a new sport" when i was playing wall ball

[iplaylax22]

the other day i was walking and a lady stoped and asked if it wsa a "hucker" to throw tennis balls to dogs

[Jephman]

I just remembered that my other idiot neighbor told me that he has never played the cross ball before and that he didnt have a the cross ball bat.

I call it "The Cross" Because I am french and "La" is "The" and "X or Crosse" is "Cross". So technically it is The Cross.

I have a trampoline and there is a street right by so when I see the people looking at me it makes me funny because they are probably saying "Wtf? I never knew there were butterflies around here" or "Dang that kid has a sweet shaft".

I love when people have no clue about the sport but are just like "So you hear Duke got suspended?" because they saw it on CNN and it makes them happy. I let them have there moment...

[Jephman]

when you think about it lax is kind of like hockey in the air. Instead of puting the stick down you hold it up right and instead of passing the ball on the ice you pass in the air. Dumb idea, just thought I might point that out...

I actually thought of hockey as 2D and lacrosse 3D because of height added in the mix (Hockey is played on the ground). The bus driver may have meant "Hockey in Air" because if not, that would be a big stick for a "sport" on a table.

[L i LaXbOy11]

i was walking into my house with my friend and he sees my d-pole on the porch " How tall is your brother!?!?" i fell on the ground laughing after he said hes played lacrosse before.

[cali feeder]

My dad is starting to catch on some of the lacrosse lingo, but he has no idea how to use those words in sentences. I'll be walking around the house and he'll walk up to me and be like "Is that split legal?" or "Thats a pretty sweet off-hip you got there." Oh well, I give him credit for trying.

EDIT: And now that I think about it, I get a lot of those "Look! It's one of those guys that rapes people!!!" looks.

[MACDADDY]

i got pulled over by the cops at the park, and he said that he's never seen anything like it, and then he asked,"where do you guys play field hockey?"
i couldnt stop laughing.

[EZA----<o)]

Local guy asked me how many fish I caught today.

[titanlax30]

i was wearing a lax jacket and its got crossed sticks on it and the principle of our school walks by and is like hey good luck in ur match today (referring to tennis)

[Tehb2]

My schools girls team is like...9th in the country (HS) or something (Shawnee) so you cant really find anyone that cant recognize a lacrosse stick, regardless of the type. (girls, boys)

[CSlax06]

Bus driver: '' Hey dude you play attack''?

Me: '' Uhh no...why do you think I have a 6 foot stick''?

Bus driver: '' What do you think I am a !*#&@&^ genious''??!!

Me: '' Well....no actually I dont''


hahaha good times, good times..

[ByrdDpole]

Me and my friend got asked if we were gonna go crawfishing...

Since crawfish live in holes, I dunno what he was thinking...

[GlaxR]

its almost illegal to cary my stick to school. i am not allowed to bring it on the bus witout permision because its a "weapon" but baseball bats and golf clubs are completly fine and not a weapon or canot be used as one at all


well i dont have to worry about that because in my school only the lacrosse team knows what lacrosse sticks are so i walk around the school and get weird looks but in my mind i think im cool lol

[ptlax79]

haha one time, my mom had a friend over from Tennesee and I was walking up the steps with my stick and she sees me and says, Ohh is that your new hockey stick?

[laxattack1616]

Some guy: Youre pretty good at cricket.

Me: Why do you say that? I dont play cricket, this is lacrosse.

Some guy: Haha, well how come you have a cricket stick?

[ShazamLax25]

Also, when a family friend saw one for the first time she thought it was a cup on a stick! and when me and my friend brought ours to school a few times in a week, a guy felt the hardness of the ball and figured it must be very un-bouncy, so he leant over and threw it at the ground. It bounced up very fast and hit him in the face. Later that day, me and my friend were throwing on the way out of our school, and our principal (she's the biggest b!tch) came out and told us that she was sick of us bringing these "silly, dangerous, little lolly-pops on sticks" to school!!

Same here, i've been told it looks like an athletic cup on a stick, and someone asked me if it was a rich kid sport. I live in kentucky...and it shows.

[BLUEJAYSFAN9]

i was in Ga

and they asked me if a lax stick was a beach toy

[manup5183]

i brought an unstrung head to school and EVERYONE was like "DUDE that SUX that you broke your stick."

[laxmiddie8]

Most people around here know what lacrosse is. So all those baseball players and track kids always say" aha your gay because you play with sticks and balls" at that point i just kinda walk away laughing to myself.

[mfLax03]

I hate it when people call the pocket a net. Its not as stupid as some of the things you guys have said but i hate it.

same here kids always compliment my "net"

[laxobsessed]

sitting in my math class this year stringing a friends head and my teacher told me "that thing on your desk is the weirdest looking tennis racket i have ever seen"

also while throwing around with a friend.... "i thought in tennis you were supposed to hit the ball no catch it...

I live in Florida so i just give the people a dumb look then sigh and then explain

[kevidinho]

haha i thought i was the only one who has had it called a raquet. but i have also heard of someone calling the mesh "webbing."

[faceofflax15]

....Dude, you're like a total fisherman dude aren't you? Richous...

[Riot]

Nope.. the closest thing I've to that that's happened to me was while I was giving this super annoying kid a ride to a game. His voice is twice as loud as neccesary always. He had just bought his third stick, an Icon. He had 2 rippers and one icon, I'm not sure why he kept buying beginner sticks. But anyways, I was using a torque when he got his icon.

Him - I have that stick!
Me - No you don't..
Him - Yeah I do!
Me - No.. you don't.
Him - (starting to get mad) Yes, I do.
Me - No.
Him - (face red, yelling) YES I DO! LOOK, GAIT, IT SAYS RIGHT HERE! Idiot.

[crlacrosse21]

haha once this girl asked what the difference between field hockey and lacrosse was, as if they're the same thing.

[tiplax]

Most people around here know what lacrosse is. So all those baseball players and track kids always say" aha your gay because you play with sticks and balls" at that point i just kinda walk away laughing to myself.
yeah me to. most baseball players in my school are really unathletic and that is the only dis they can come up with about lacrosse. I just answer them with the usually replies of "You stand in one spot for 3 hours." Or "You run 90 feet once every 3 innings, you could never play lacrosse."
kevidinho, i was string my new gait chaos in study hall last year and the teacher/my friends who don't play lacrosse started calling the mesh webbing. I started to laugh and kept stringing

[Goody]

We play in Alaska and lived in the dorms last year. ive had my stick called a dog ball launcher, to keep the slobber off your hands and all. and "what the hell does that do in the snow?"
but we're getting to be more well known, slowly, realy slowly, but surely

[dskinner21]

My grandma thought that when i strung the mesh on my head that instead of just putting the mesh in the head, I wove the mesh. I was like yah its hard. So now she always comes up to me and says thats a nice stick you woven. My dad always calls it a net. I throw with him and no matter what sticks i give him it goes straight into the ground. I strung a pocket just for im and it went staright into the ground. It was whipless. I just hate when people say can i see that or anyone can do that(my stringing) espacially non-lacrosse players. Also why do you have that.

[rjattack19]

lol another one is when people pick up the ball and say " wow this is really heavy" then they procced to bounce it, then they follw by asking if it hurts when u get hit in the head?...one thime a kid asked me this, and when i told him that you wear a helmet, he asked me where your supposed to hit the other player then if u cant hit em' in the head...lol people make me laugh.

but i still cant stand it when the following happens

person 1: are u alowed to hit each other
me: yea, to a point
person 1: dude sick, i wanna play
some random idiot: NO YOU CANT, LACROSSE IS GAY U CANT HIT AT ALL...
me: r u joking? have u ever seen lacrosse?
{the random idiot argues with me for about 10 min. untill he realizes that im right and he is infact a retard...lol}

[laxman 9990]

i dont know if this guy has ever seen a lacrosse stick or what ,but a friend of mine and myself went to take a tour of the Navy campus before the final 4 and we were carry our sticks around. we decided to shoot on the practice field,but we had to pass the security booth and the guy searched our sticks, and asked us a bunch of questionslike "you dont have any weapons in those things like bombs, correct? crap like that,i thought i was pretty funny cuz the lacrosse field was like 300 feet away

[shakerlax222225]

yea i get a lot of people calling it a net or calling it my "sack." all of my teachers are pretty lacrosse savvy so they dont call our stick weird names and they even let us carry them around school!

[hockey&lax]

you do fencing right?...ughhh

[sidewinder19]

last year when ever i neede to restring my stick i would take it to school and do it there.my teachers were all so laid back and di nt care as long as all my work was done.
so there i am in the middle of th library with an unstrung stick and mesh,strings, scissors,knife,and plyers on the table. this kid walks up and is like "your stupid, the fish can go right through that,idiot" i said "what do you think this is?" he replies" a fish catcher" i say"no its a lacrosse stick". he argues with me for about ten minutes and says well okay lets play. i had another stick in my locker so at lunch we wen outside and he was like how do you use this stupid thing. i showed him how to throw. so im all the way acroos the field(like 150 feet) and i give him a nice pass he jumps and it hits him in the balls. he dropped and was crying for like 20 minutes.i got sent to the principal and thr principal said just dont let kids touch your sticks, the other kid went home from the pain and cane back the next day and again argued that what i had tha previous day was in fact a fish net.idiot

[DutchyLacrosse]

:lol: hahaha, that's a great one.
Well, here in The Netherlands it's even worse, i get looks from everyone when i have my stick with me.
Even worse: One day when somebody asked me about it, i told him that it's used to play an american sport and he was like: Oh so it's some kind of baseball pitching thingy??!
Dang... Having lax compared with baseball really ruins my day :angry: