Ok, I have seen it all.
Tonight, a friend and I were bored and decided to go grab a cup of coffee. We were in kind of a seedy area of town, and just decided Denny's was a pretty safe bet. We are innocently minding our own business, when out of nowhere, this clown...yes, a CLOWN, comes up to our table asking me if I want him to make me one of those twisty balloons shaped like animals. He was speaking in this creepy, macabre voice, as if I were a five-year-old: "Can I make you a kitty cat, little girl? Or a poodle?" I size our yellow-haired friend up and down...there are hundreds of the long, skinny, limp balloons ready to be blown up hanging from some machine, which I assumed to be some sort of air compressor. He has a disturbing slur and walk about him, and I notice a tip cup filled with money attached to the balloon-blower-upper.
"No, thank you, i'm fine," i say to him. But he persists. "How about a flower? Maybe a humming-bee?" Unsure of what a humming-bee is exactly, I still politely turn down the offer. It took 5 minutes of convincing the clown that no, I would NOT look good in a helium-filled pirate's hat before we were finally left in peace. Oddly enough, he looked only at ME when asking this, not my friend.
Now, we've all seen the scruffy guys peddling stolen goods in the bars, even guys trying to prey on men taking girls out on first dates by making them look like a jerk if they don't buy their lady one of the wilted bouquets of flowers they hopefully didn't genk from the cemetary down the street. But a clown coming in Denny's? I was horrified. I guess I figure if I want to buy something, I'm going to seek it out and buy it. I hate being solicited.
I could be wrong, and probably am jumping to conclusions, but it seems to me that drug addicts are getting more and more creative as far as coming up with ways to earn their, er, living. All I know is, I hope this guy isn't hanging out on street corners trying to lure little children into his van with balloons.
What about you guys? Does it bother you when you're out trying to relax, and someone comes up and tries to pressure you or guilt-trip you into buying something? You can join Unsolved Mysteries and post your own mysteries or
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