My last day of holidays (I'm a few blogs behind but have faithfully taken a photo every day). I went into the city to do something.... What was it? Oh, to buy ink and more storage solutions. So after picking up some black Quink and a set of three over-the-door hooks, I came back through Bourke Street Mall and spied this guy busking. I was impressed that he managed to get a piano into the mall so after taking this photo and making a donation, I went over to ask. The answer was much less exciting than I had anticipated: by truck. I had romantic visions of him wheeling it all the way in from Brunswick or something. Nevertheless, going to all that trouble to load and unload it from a truck sure beats a guitar on a strap.
My request was 'Somewhere Over The Rainbow'.
General Sumo recommends:
Making an extra effort as a busker
I'm not interested in your artful dreadlocks, your dolphin candle store clothes or your hemp guitar strap. Call me when you're respectfully dressed in a tuxedo t-shirt and jaunty top hat and have wheeled your piano all the way from Brunswick.
Having correct grammar
Note the correctly placed apostrophe on that bottom sign. If I'd noticed that at the time, he would have gotten another few coins. I've seen professionally painted signs that can't even get that right!
Over-the-door hooks
$8 or something at Big W for the three-hooker
The answer to all of our 'I can't be bothered putting my clothes in the wardrobe' problems. I should have got the five-hooker.
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