Just What I Needed
After a crap day at work performance wise (although I did save a client $772 in Govt Duties), I left work on this rainy evening on a bit of a downer...
Until I reached the tunnel to the train station and this group of buskers that usually play guitar & bass (sometimes with small amp)... They actually are the better of what we get there...
Tonight only one guy was playing and singing and his mate was just sitting with him..I had my earphones in but over it I could hear over it...
WMUWSE acoustic!!.. I had actually walked past when I heard it and was on the way up the escalator...
I've heard Good Riddance once before by a different busker there... but never WMUWSE...and not what I would expect by this group.. GD is not the usual repetoire for blind guys with grey hair....
Dork that I was I U-turned back down the wrong way on the escalator... pissing off the other commuters as I pushed back down to go back to them.
Once there, I madly tried to dig the dollar & a bit that I had in my change pocket of the sum total of $4 on me.. and due to my fat hip, stubbornly wouldn't come out of the coin pocket...
The singer's younger mate (he seemed to at least have a pulse) saw the badges on my satchel and said something to the effect about "good to see someone who appreciates the song." Hard to tell exactly what he said 'cause I still had Nimrod blaring in my earbuds... He then asked me if I had seen Simpsons yet... and about it just being "tragic".
I mumbled something like a "yeh.." now a babbling idiot - what with nearly knocking over a heap of commuters and then being unable to get my money out of my jeans..in front of a guy who was a GD fan and fairly easy on the eyes - not that I looked - married chicky that I am ;)
I just blushed madly, threw in my meager offerings and hoped he wouldnt be offended by the amount, and beat a hasty retreat back up the escalators..
Now do I care about performance targets and files completed...
I ended this day with a GD moment...
It's all good....