Okay, so this guy has been out here doin his thing periodically for a while now, I just thought I'd share with y'all. Now, I don't know exactly what benefit or satisfaction the guy gets from playing with his 4-foot lady puppet that looks like something out of 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' in the middle of fuckin Center City, but I wish he would stop or at least go somewhere else. Nobody likes an amateur puppeteer...let alone one with an undead puppet. I hate him, his weird girlfriend on strings, and everything they both stand for.
I assume he does it so people will make it hail on him with coins for his brilliant performances (that have to be seen for the full creep factor to be appreciated...its...strange...) one problem tho...nobody likes this guy or his creepy fuckin puppet, and thus he gets no tips. Its the saddest thing ever to watch him stand there and manipulate the puppet for hours on end while grown folk on the way to work just try not to look at him and children point, cry and run away. One time, a child that couldn't have been more than 5 walked by it with her mom and froze with a look of terror, eyes locked on the thing. Puppetmonger began to dance his horrible toy in the direction of Little Girl, Little Girl emitted a bloodcurdling shriek, ripped her hand out of her mother's and shot down the street like she had been catapulted...that's all I needed to see to know it was evil.
Meanwhile, his hat always sits in front of him, expectantly overturned but completely devoid of coins. I've never seen one person tip this dude, as many times as I've seen him...hell some folk cross the street away from him when they encounter him. He's not in a very lucrative business...plus its gettin too cold to be outside doin a puppet show nobody wants to see. It's a lose-lose-lose situation...so next time I see him outside, I'm gonna give him 10 bucks (or double his weekly earnings as a marionette engineer) to take his show on the road...permanently. Course, if that doesn't work, I can always just whip out a lighter and incinerate the little wooden bitch...I might get a medal for that!
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