So yesterday I was walking down the street to the subway station on my way home from work, and I see a homeless man sitting on the sidewalk asking for spare change…not uncommon at all here in San Francisco, particularly downtown…but wait, there’s something a bit different about this chap: he’s not only wearing some kind of plastic halloween mask, but he has a silver-colored tubular metallic object protruding from his mouth that he’s holding with one hand and blowing through, making some kind of mildly slightly annoying noise. I look again, and lo and behold, the aforementioned protruding object is of all things, a low whistle - a Chieftain D, I surmise. How I wish I had a camera on my person at that moment, what an avatar that would make! (as you see, I’m still avatar-less) In any case, it just goes to show that you never know whose hands these 6-holed tubes will end up in and what they’re used for once they find their way to the streets…
anyone else ever see whistles in similar circumstances?
