panhandlers!

[fourthworldtraffic]

How 'bout the mentally ill that wander the internet begging for attention pushing their heavy loads onto others backs in all their useless abstraction.

[Stan Silliman]

There are street musicians in Bricktown.
I've thought about taking my grand daughter and grand son and to a trio
thing. Violin, Guitar and bass.

There's been this one guitar player on the Spaghetti Warehouse corner who's
been there for years. He hasn't improved but he has fun. I always say hi on
the way to a gig.

I did a few gigs on the back of a water taxi. That was fun?

Is performing on the street for tips the same as panhandling? I don't think so. That's not the way it was taught at Panhandle A & M.

[Prunepicker]

Is performing on the street for tips the same as panhandling? I don't think so.
That's not the way it was taught at Panhandle A & M.

I don't think panhandlers provide anything in return for the money they get.

I've never seen a crowd gather to watch people give them money

[Thunder]

I don't think panhandlers provide anything in return for the money they get.

I've never seen a crowd gather to watch people give them money

Wouldn't the vehicles stopped at the lights off the highways count as crowd gathering?

[PennyQuilts]

Wouldn't the vehicles stopped at the lights off the highways count as crowd gathering?

I think they call that a captive audience.

[fourthworldtraffic]

I'm with it ..street performing is a hard dollar earned. Similar to dealing illegal drugs, dangerous,taboo market functions that nevertheless require people to do them to serve the demand.. Like the Dalits down in Calcuttan sewers cleaning clogs. So the Panhandlers need to up their sorrowful face game. I have had a life of my own and I recognize game when I see it. Comedy routines or something, balance the feeling of the exchange. In a naturally occuring organic economic exchange both parties should come away feeling fulfilled and satified with the business transacted. Value for Value which is a fickle and sensitive thing.

[fourthworldtraffic]

"Captive audience" That is what it is.