Sacramento, CA
USA
So, I'm in Sacramento now, living in the dorms at Sac State, and so far the highlight (and it's Sacramento, so highlights are few and far between) was heading to Brewfest with Glenn and Harry. The deal was this: $30, 5 hours, all the beer you can drink. Now that was fun, but the best was yet to come. Thanks to our ingenious plan to take two complementary beer mugs each (to reduce queuing time and increase drinking time), we discovered on the walk down the long road to the taxis that our chalices made rather effective percussion instruments. We commenced riffing.
When we came to the corner where we had agreed to meet our chauffeur, Dino, and he was nowhere in sight, we stopped, but the wicked beer-mug beats continued. I dropped my hat to the dusty road, Harry did the same. Almost immediately we earned our first dollar. The crowds continued to pass: Some on foot, others by car, slowing and then moving on. Some gave money. Some stopped to dance. Still others threw corn chips from the window of their SUV.
After 20 minutes, we'd earned the grand total of $4.70. That's more than the minimum wage (although admittedly it was split between 3 people).
So, $30 entry × 3 = $90, less $4.70 = the solution to this country's poverty problem.
2 comments:
i think you owe tax on the $4.70, so you might want to adjust your figures accordingly.
You know, if you ever run out of money, you always have a music career that you can start up in order to fund your trip back to the merry old land of Oz. Keep up the shenanigans. Thanks for keeping me entertained and say hi to Glenn for me!
xoxo Cookie
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