tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34972514.post7130950756839877408..comments2023-10-15T05:10:59.041-07:00Comments on subwaysurfer blogggg: Best Caricature that Money CANT buy.Elgin Subwaysurfer Bollinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17814674628882541222noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34972514.post-15825556829863298592011-07-29T18:56:33.536-07:002011-07-29T18:56:33.536-07:00What a wonderful story.What a wonderful story.Boomer Billhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09031712673618324322noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34972514.post-59466724408647417112011-07-28T21:29:23.811-07:002011-07-28T21:29:23.811-07:00Always feels good when you use your power for good...Always feels good when you use your power for good!Elgin Subwaysurfer Bollinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17814674628882541222noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34972514.post-409457300310681732011-07-28T19:00:02.547-07:002011-07-28T19:00:02.547-07:00Nice story. A few years back, I was at a fund rais...Nice story. A few years back, I was at a fund raiser for an underfunded elementary school in Brooklyn. I was giving all of the proceedings to the pot that day and charging a modest price to do the drawings. There were many things the kids could do and buy. Ranging from candy to a dunk your principle booth, I thought I'd be ignored. I wasn't. The lineup seemed to go forever. At five dollars a crack, I hit the pricing sweet point I guess. One young man--maybe 9 to 10 years of age, waited patiently in line with a little girl who might have been 6. I'd look up and see him eyeballing his friends, but in line he stayed. Like yourself, I talk with my subjects and try to elicit facts about them. The women wanted to have more flattering drawings, some of the kids wanted drawings as their favorite TV characters. In conversation, this boy was given 5 dollars for the whole day but decided, for his mom, that he wanted to spend it on a picture of his little sister. Making up a fib on the spot, I said that he was my 20th customer and that the drawing was not only free, but would include him in the drawing. I don't know if it was his selflessness that brought something out in me, but that drawing came out particularly well. That day, I raised 185 dollars for the school. Doing the math, I had 37 paying customers, but it was the one I wouldn't take payment from I remember the most.Tom Kerrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16861693592107866833noreply@blogger.com