The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #60297   Message #964663
Posted By: Frug
09-Jun-03 - 02:55 PM
Thread Name: Non-monetary tips given to buskers
Subject: RE: BS: Non-monetary tips given to buskers
Always remember seeing a funny thing one day in Birmingham (UK). An old black guy used to sit in the underpass blowing hell out of a harmonica..........boy was he bad. One day a well-to-do lady gave him a parcel and walked away. I walked by and heard the guy cursing and swearing something rotten. I asked the lady when I bumped into her at the train station what she had given him that made him so upset. She was a bit taken aback and said that she passed the guy often and really wanted to help out and admired his spirit and wanted him to get on .........so she had gone and bought him a book........."How to play the Harmonica"

Frank