Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 16:16:22 -0700
Subject: Re: burnin' buskers
From: "John M. Holmes" <bloonman@airmail.net>
To: balloon@balloonhq.com


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>From: "Inflated Impressions" <inflatedimpressions@PRODIGY.NET>
>To: <balloon@balloonhq.com>
>Subject: burnin' buskers
>Date: Wed, Aug 2, 2000, 9:05 PM

>Tim writes:
>  When I busk, not often, I don't encourage a line and I don't play
who came
>first. I play show me the money. Mister $5 wants a monkey and little
miss
>eight kids with nickels wants taz all the way around? I'm makin' a
monkey
>and looking around as I start the first, hopefully only taz. By the
time
>he's done there are more impatient people ready to pay to be first,
and I
>encourage that kind of behavior( please feel free to throw away your
prozac
>and start typing flames).

No flames from me. I just wish I had thought of this one way back
in1993
when I first started busking instead of reading about it today. When
it applies,
"Show me the MONEY!" is now part of my patter wheneverI go abusking,
which, 
like yourself, is not very often(Trade potatoes for Prozac. It's
better and cheaper 
than a high-priced prescription...really!).

John, The Balloon Man.

P.S.: Where did you run into that lady with the eight kids? I've seen
her in at
least four different states trying to pawn off that $.40 in nickels.
If I'm not 
mistaken, she had a roll of pennies the last time I ran into her. I
guess she 
figured that the only way she was going to get through to me was by
upping  the ante. Don't get me wrong. I'm not slamming the people who
really
can't  afford more than the pennies they've saved all month for their
night
on the town. It's the one's whose eight kids are standing there in
"NIKE" shoes
and "TOMMY H." shirts with nickels for the balloon man that really
chaps my
hide!