# I Finally Sell Myself On the Street **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 20, 2005, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-sell-myself-on-the-street/309128 "2005-06-20T22:49:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-sell-myself-on-the-street/309128/21 "2005-06-22T06:45:00Z")
I opened this thread only because I saw the title and **Sampiro**. Then I was disappointed. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-sell-myself-on-the-street/309128/22 "2005-06-22T07:13:25Z")
Bless you! I’ve sung with homeless people and homeless people have come up to me while playing guitar and panhandling in Nashville to sing. It’s uplifting, aint’ it? ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-sell-myself-on-the-street/309128/23 "2005-06-22T11:41:23Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Then I went back to the hotel and turned down sex from a cute 22 year old because I felt it would be taking advantage- if that’s not a lesson on why not to get drunk I don’t know what is. See, this is why I never drink: that way attractive southern gentlemen don’t feel guilty about taking advantage of me. 🙂 Once, while humming in a metro station, I got tossed a penny, though I don’t know whether it was meant as sarcastic revenue, or as an unsarcastic projectile, or both. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-sell-myself-on-the-street/309128/24 "2005-06-22T11:45:02Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Perhaps you had to be there, but the juxtaposition of gay pride apparel, a 70s sitcom, an Arab and the return of the embassy of a wartorn country just all added up to a moment that instantly took refuge in whatever citadel of my brain will be the Constantinople of my consciousness should the outer borders and hinterlands ever fall to the Franks and Turks of Alzheimers. Yeah, I have a few moments like that: for example, being cruised by a _female_ prostitute while sashaying down the street in Church and Wellesley in Toronto, singing a show tune, by the Pet Shop Boys for good measure. “Honey, is this working for you?! We need to talk marketing!” ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-sell-myself-on-the-street/309128/25 "2005-06-22T20:14:33Z")
> [@chaoticdonkey](#): > > I opened this thread only because I saw the title and **Sampiro**. Then I was disappointed. I do accept Pay Pal. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2005, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-sell-myself-on-the-street/309128/26 "2005-06-22T21:47:04Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > I do accept Pay Pal. 😉 Yeah, but that’s the kind of activity that is best done in person. Then I can just give you the money face-to-face. Silly goose. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2005, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-sell-myself-on-the-street/309128/27 "2005-06-23T02:45:47Z")
You need to travel America and write about it: **The Gay Trip** or **The Flamboyant Traveler** \*\* Queer All Over\*\* or some such witty title. I would be first in line to buy the book. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-sell-myself-on-the-street/309128.md?page=1)