What's the weirdest thing you've got in a hat?

[Jim]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Airborne Dan:
a Canadian quarter, which by the way is practically the same shape and size as a U.S. quarter, but for some reason won't work in any of our vending machines.

Sorry, this is off topic, but Canadian quarters DO work in Boston parking meters... Not the newer digital ones, but the older ones with the crank handle and the dial. However, for some bizarre reason, they only give you 40 minutes of time instead of the full hour.

[Rich Potter]

--&gt;A German 2-Mark coin, on the back of which was smooshed a piece of hashish
--&gt;10,000 yen train card + 3 500-yen coins (the guy waited 10 minutes after my crowd had left to hunt me down as I left the pitch)
--&gt;a camera which I still use
--&gt;assorted soft drinks and beer
--&gt;more hashish
--&gt;assorted religious pamphlets and tchotchkes (Virgin Mary pendants and the like)
--&gt;the grubby little mitts of ill-mannered kids who are too slow to get away from me.
--&gt;a photo of some kid with a parrot sitting on her shoulder
--&gt;a $10,000 (US) check with the instructions, "cash it tomorrow!" (I checked with some other people who use the same pitch and they'd all got similar around the same time. I called the bank and determined it was a bad check, so I still have it stuck to my wall.)
--&gt;10,000 ringgitt ($4 US of Indonesian money)
--&gt;a baby's pacifier (dummy)
--&gt;a keychain which has a level attached to it. (2 inches long)
--&gt;a quart and a half of vomit (not mine) (not really)
--&gt;a couple of phone numbers. But I haven't gotten any of those since I stopped working with a partner. Hmmmm...

[Airborne Dan]

Way to go Jim, stick it to the man!

[theballoonman]

a quick aside on the canadian quarter...did you know the british 2pence coin works as a dollar(cdn)in older style parking meters,washing machines,etc...save em up

[Peter]

The only unusual thing I received was a phone number from a woman in her 50's (that was OK because I am in my 50's) which I called. We went out several times and had really great times. Too bad we both moved on.

Peter

[jester]

A fire extinguisher.

Unfortunately it's rightful owner came and took it back about 20 minutes later.

A jar of coffee

45 cigarettes (I smoked in those days)

A set of three brand new fire juggling clubs with a note explaining that the owner had never learned to juggle clubs.

[Keith Eveslage]

- $(US)100.00 bill
- A Polaroid of the show
- A plastic Superman doll
- candy
- countless religious pamphlets
- phone numbers from fat girls, jailbait, and gay men
- A handful of "Slime(TM)" w/worms sans can

[danielc]

Lets see...

- Balloon Animals with email addresses written on them
- A coupon for a free sundae at Dairy Queen
- A bracelet
- Condom with phone number on it
- Religious Tracts
- A note that said "Come back to Edmonton or we'll eat you alive"
- And sometimes, but rarely money

Weird weird people out there.

[Peter Voice]

A bunch of carrots
A bunch of tiger lillies
A plastic dinasaur
An uncut green stone brooche
monopoly money
condoms from an elderly street person
guiness
rotting bones from a derro for my dog
A yucky tracky top
A tiny vinyl souwester
A couple of Christmas's ago my busking pig appeared to have given birth to two pencil sharpener plastic pigs without wings

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[Bev Isaac]

whoops ,i thought that was signed by me ,Bev Isaac not Peter Voice.

[Eric]

This isn't quite in the hat but, here goes...
Once I was performing in an open-air market in France and the little girl from the stall next to me (her dad was out and she was gaurding it) came over with a slice of [smelly,French] cheese! Well that's my 2 francs (that's french currency for you non-international performers who don't get the pun...) -Eric

[peterpanic]

once upon a time many years ago in cambridge i recieved a social security check for $667. it was made out to some guy in a different state, slightly torn, not endorsed, no clues as to how it came into my possesion. what am i supposed to do with this? now this was never about money. i did not care about the money. who does? now i admit, it would have been nice to put on the x-mas card that i finally cracked the 700 mark, but i wanted to do it legit. my friends gave me a lot of advice but it was so obvious they were only after my money i ignored them. i tried calling the dude up, wanting to do the right thing, looking for nothing in return except a hefty reward. the phone rang and rang.
what sort of person loses checks and does not answer the phone? ok, foul play was a possibility but what did that have to do with me? i go out into the square and perform my whimsical peter panesque juggling show and people pay me any way they see fit. who am i to judge? sometimes people drop big bills simply because they do not have anything smaller. dont get me wrong, i felt for the old guy. sitting in a cold, dark room, nothing to eat, cupboards bare, not even a scrap for patches, the phone ringing off the hook, you want to pick it up but it could be the ex-wife...
i realized it was not my problem. i always blame myself, but no, not this time.
i started to take a harder look at "social security" itself. what is it? what does it do? does anyone understand it or is it just so many different things to so many different people like the elephant to the blind men?...of course, the elephant is pretty straightforward its just that the blind men are vain and stupid and dont communicate well..
and why do we have a # ?
what % of earnings am i sposed to send in?
ect.
panic

[mnozzolio]

Today a young lady tossed two miniature boxes of Special K With Berries into my accordion case. She was passing them out to promote the new cereal. I'll have them for breakfast.

[Byron Bertram]

Lot's of weird stuff has gone into my hat over the years like.

Besides the common stuff I've gotton a lot like

beer
pop
food
condoms
keys
flowers
strange foriegn currency
cigarettes
pot
buisness cards from the strangest people

I've also gotton weird stuff like

A sack of potatoes

A nice clock that I still use today.

A shot of hard liquor poared all over my hat. It was gross. All my money stunk and felt sticky. (damn Australians)

A girls number who I called and we had a huge fling at The Edinburgh Fringe(Maybe that happends to Alakazam all the time, but it only happend to me once)


Good topic

[BFlat]

Hi all, it's been awhile since the last time I been here. Anyway, yeah weird things in the hat, I had quite a few over the years.

Among the most unusual, there was a small tree that was given to me once.
Also a credit card once. But I have returned it to the guy who gave it to me, he was some really stange guy. Anyway, he admitted that the card was full and I suspect that he had stolen it.

I found pre-chewed chewing gum in my case one that was a pain in the ass. People don't have any respect sometimes.

People give often food and candy, among the weirdest thing I was givien in that cathegory was a chocolate penis !!!