-Beer
-Weed
-Condoms
-Hotel room key
(not all in the same hat, but that would have rocked)
the weirdest thing I got was a WW2 Nazi Italian coin. Ya, an Italian coin with the swastika and eagle on it. Strange things started happening to me. I could only wave with my right hand, I took really big steps and shaved my head. (not really) but I did have bad luck for the couple weeks there after.
I was playing Marti Gras in New Orleans a few years back when two nearly naked girls got in my banjo case and started making out! All I could say was yehaaaaa.
I once got a five Dinar Iragi note with Saddam on it while in Key West. It was folded into an American single. I got a 1957 one dollar Silver Certificate last year in the fall while in Key West also. Silver certificate, go figure!
I've had 2 slices of pizza put in my hat, also about 15 boiled sweets, once in york someone gave me a cauliflower! stunned to silence!! in glasgow a kid gave me a picture she had drawn of my show.(it wasnt actually put in my hat but the thought was lovely!) pretty surreal drawing too. still got it. oh also once someone put a toy cat in.
In my street gigs I've never had anything but phone #'s, business cards, and money in my hat, although some of it was currency I couldn't identify.
In my more risque shows I've made some interesting tips though:
drugs, assorted colognes, various necklaces, 4 different thongs, and 1 pair of boxer briefs.
I was given a poem by a famous local poet about me performing in his local village last year in Galicia.
And better still was bought a chinese takeway by two lovelly girls on the last night of their holiday on the Algarve.We spent the rest of the night together.....
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