I don’t know how I have missed this is the past. Maybe I just wasn’t in the right place at the right time.

Tonight as we were sitting in traffic, I heard someone singing. It was a young boy, maybe 10 or 11 years old, playing a ukulele and singing a song as he hung halfway out the open door of a small, blue van/taksi. How cute. I grabbed the point and shoot camera that I have started carrying with me, for just this reason, turned it on and tried to get a picture. Alas, just as the camera decided to cooperate, the boy hopped off the van, leaving me with a shot of surprised and half blinded people just trying to get home from work. Then I heard another ukulele on the other side of the taksi. After a few moments, we realized that there was a small army of young and teenage boys with ukuleles hopping on and off these vans.  They hop on, play a song, collect a tip and hop off, then on to the next van. I don’t know how the people riding in the van feel about this or how many tips they have to pay during their daily travels but it sure is a creative way to make some dough.  And it has to be better than those damn window washers in Los Angeles. 🙂