Living in a vacation destination like Hawaii, you have to deal with certain things you have no control over. Things like: tourists wearing leather sandals with socks and matching aloha gear; tour buses; traffic; the concrete jungle that is Waikiki; etc, etc, etc.
One of the things that really chaps my ass are those so called “Street Entertainers” that somehow scam families from Ohio and other Mainland states to just toss dollar bills at them for being “entertained”. Let’s get one thing straight……..strippers are entertaining, not guys that paint there entire bodies silver and stand motionless like statues. The “silver guy” is probably one of the worst street entertainers of all time. I’ll give them this, their idea was probably original………circa 1977. Now every city you go to you see ‘this guy’. How can they pass there so called act off as entertainment, I just don’t get it. “Look daddy, there’s a guy painted silver….not doing anything, let’s throw your hard earned money at him!” I’m willing to bet that this same douche bag who is throwing his money at these street entertainers is the same guy who just walks on by the Salvation Army person asking for donations at Christmas.
Waikiki is full of these morons. Anything from people that think they’re good at playing instruments, to people painting your name in a Hawaiian theme, to a magician doing tricks he learned on the internet, to “Robot Guy”, to a homeless guy with a parrat that wants you to allow him to use your $800 digital camera to take a picture while his bird shits on your shoulder……..talk about entertaining! I’ve seen homeless people more entertaining and funny in there begging for cash then these losers.
The sad part is that these “entertainers” only do this every night because the tourists are too stupid to realize that they aren’t worth shit. What goes through the tourists minds I’ll never know…………………….what I do know is that both the tourists and these idiots deserve one thing…..SLAP!
I have a whole post dedicated to Waikiki in the works. but I saw a guy beat boxin the other day and there as 20 people watching this idiot and giving him cash.
These people really piss me off too… I mean, you can’t walk anywhere without having to shove your way through a crowd of stopped Japanese and redneck tourists stopping to watch some guy beating an upside bucket with drumsticks. The streets of Waikiki are busy enough, but dealing with these heards of idiots who stop right in front of you often makes it unbearable.
As for me, I have two favorite “Street entertainers” – one whom I never see anymore, this fat guy with white hair and a blue polo shirt who just sings the Gilligan’s Island theme song. And people would actually pay this guy!
My other favorite is this blind guy who wears a briefcase around his neck with a hole for people to put money and a sign that reads “Blind! Help me in the pursuit of justice!” or something like that. The crazy thing is that he walks (I assume) from Waikiki to downtown every day, because I’ll see him often around town, one time even at my bank, depositing his briefcase.
Basically, I’m with you; I wish all these people would die.
OK, I have to admit something. I never gave any entertainers money, but I did wear a pair of Birkenstocks one night while I was in Maui….they are leather and apparently so am I for wearing them….Rosey already busted my balls on my MySpace page and asked if they were “mandals”….lol. I threw them out.