ONE: People who come up to me when I'm lashing out folk music and ask for old top 40 radio crap like Piano Man or American Pie... This is balanced by the pretty girls who occasionally come up and ask, "Do you play any Jethro Tull?"

TWO: People who ask for a song that I don't know, and when I say "Oh, I'm sorry.. but I don't know that one..." say either "Well, play it anyway", or "Yes you DO, play it!" Why on earth would I lie to someone I don't even know about knowing a song or not????

THREE: People who request a song and want to hear it RIGHT THE HELL NOW!!!!!! "Play "Drunken Sailor'!!!", they holler... "Ya... cool... will do... I'll end the set with that!"... and then, after EVERY SONG I play, these idiots continue to yell out for 'Drunken Sailor'.... It's got to the point where now, if they request it more than 3 times, I tell 'em flat outright, "One more request for a song I already said I'd play, and I'm not playing it at all!"

FOUR: People who request a song, then while yer playing it are so engrossed in conversation or in tongue wrestling with some dockside tramp that they don't notice and then request it right after I just finish playing it... This is up there with people who ask, "Do you play and Gordon Lightfoot?", right after I just finished 'Early Morning Rain'...

So what's that?? About 78% or 85% of bar/pub audiences??