i have been given

two pairs of shoes and three shirts in a bag.
an uncooked chicken
many joints(i don\t smoke no more(really--no really) so i gave them to other buskers
a bag full of pills that i din\t investigate(handed on the the other buskers into such things)
a 1920 gibson a junior mandolin
a tiple by ss stewert
several cheap guitars
hundreds of foreign coins
enough uk coins to have change when i get off the plane for years
many kinds of food especially a lady in toronto used to bring me the best east indian left overs i have ever eaten and so much at the end of a night i would meet up with a few other buskers and we would feast

a recorrding of my old pal tex koenig(may he rest in peace) a great busker and a great guy(i'd have paid a lot for that rare album)
many other tapes and records and cds

invites to raves, to the ballet, to the symphony, and to led zepelin once
a stripp dance by a lovely young lady who had me fulmoxed as she got down to the bra and less--gulp)(she must have been stoned)its hard to concentrate on the notes when a young and beautifull woman is unveiling herself(this was late friday in dundas station in downtown toronto and not a soul paid any attention while she performed
i'll think of others for tomoprrow
i did this for the greater part of thirty years so i've seen some strange things.