My birthday trip to Salem

In the past few years, I have adopted the tradition of celebrating my birthday by spending a day in Salem. This year, Alexx and I kidnapped LJ user TinyBuffalo, so it was probably the most fun Salem day yet (Note: no tinybuffalos were injured or mistreated in the filming of this kidnapping, which was entirely consentual).

TB had mentioned that she wanted to give money to buskers, so I gave her the bag of small change which had been sitting on a shelf for forever, because I kept meaning to give it to Salvation Army Santas, but I never see Santas anymore, or maybe it's just that those bells they ring were outlawed, so I don't hear the stealth-Santas.

This turned out to be a brilliant move on my part, because whenever we heard a musician that I liked, I turned to TB and said, "Go throw money at that man!" and she would dash off and toss handfuls of coins into his instrument case. This mostly turned out to be the same guy with a sax, because we walked past him at least three times. Okay, it was just small change, but I felt like some Renaissance patron of the arts, so now I'm going to save up my change for next year.

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