Genuine panhandler
Hey everybody! It's been a while since I've posted on here, I've been really busy, but It's good to be here again.
Last week I spent some time down at the beach. It was really fun. The water is warming up quickly and I stayed in a sweet hotel. Anyway, Shane (my little brother) wanted to go down to the board walk with our guitars and try to make some money. So we went to Rehobeth, set up, and started rocking out together. We'd been playing for a few minutes and made 80 cents when a cop spotted us. He came over and and told us that we needed to shut our guitar cases and stop trying to get money. He told us that "In the eyes of the law you are panhandling" He was a pretty nice guy though and he let us keep on playing.
We kept on jamming, and the policeman kept a close eye on us. He followed us wherever we went and would stand about 20 feet away trying to act like he wasn't noticing us. Two kids came up and listened to us play a song. We got to talking to them and they saw the policeman. They were like "Is he watching you? You're not allowed to make money are you? Well you're playing good music, keep on rocking" Then before they turned to leave they shook our hands and slipped us each a dollar.
All told, we made $7 and change in about an hour, bought two enormous ice cream cones, and had a fun time.
7 Comments:
Your the coolest Ian :) Glad you had a good time! --Katie(aka accidentgirl sorry forgot to put my name before)
The thing I always disliked about living in Rehoboth is that they bring in a lot of cadets and police officers in training over the summer. A lot of them can be very over the top, following the letter of the law instead of making a judgement call and letting people be.
Thats cool that you had fun down there.. I love that area.
Yo.
Yes, I am still alive. The Dakotas are awesome, btw- you should go sometime- your kind of place.
Kudos for the panhandling- sounds like fun. I haven't done that yet, but it's definitely on my life agenda.
So, since you're a band and all... what's up with you guys and MUSIC? Just wondering. (grin).
~ jd
I like music
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