On my lunch break I was walking around for some exercise and I saw this street musician playing guitar for some change. I walked around this loop a couple of times, dropping a dollar in once, before coming back to sit nearby to listen and watch. He never really sang anything or played anything and pretty much mumbled to himself like a crazy person. After watching him and the various interactions with people passing by I decided to go up and talk to him to figure out if he was crazy or just strange.
He said he wasn't a street person and that he had a regular job and a home. He then asked me if I wanted to play something (even though I did not tell him I played) and he pushed the guitar on me and wanted me to play.
So I told him I used to be a subway musician and then I played a few verses to Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are a Changin'" as a group tour of prospective University of Minnesota students walked by. Someone dropped in $0.35 and I asked him if it was mine. He said yes but I gave him $0.25 for the guitar rental fee.
He seemed like a pretty nice strange guy in his mid-to-late thirties.
When I told him I played in NYC, he said that he was once there on the Montel Williams show. He said his daughter called up and asked to be on the show and so he, his wife and daughter were flown out and paid to be on the show. He said he had blue hair at the time and was in a rock band with his wife.
I asked him what the show was about and he said it was children who were embarrassed by their parents. We laughed at that.
I said "See you around" and came back to my office cubicle and found this:

September 22, 2000

• Young women who say they're embarrassed by the way their parents look; panelists' parents get makeovers

I think that was his episode.

I broke my rules today and daytraded. Luckily I made a little but I hate breaking my rules and I hate daytrading at work.