Why Mz Nettie Belle, I declare, nearly married a year and already checking out the "fauxy pa's" at the nursing homes.
While reading all of the post at Clown-Forum I have noticed that Clown's seem to love entertaining children and the elderly. This all relates to "bloopers" somehow in that children usually think mistakes are hysterical, and as Nettie Belle suggested, the elderly either nap or are just thrilled to be entertained, bloopers? What the heck is that?
When in the middle of one of my routines at the piano if I make a mistake and sing out of key, I might stop in the middle of a song to tune up and have any of the audience with singing skills to provide mid performance voice lessons...
As for a reward for entertaining the elderly I'm not sure I can describe my feelings after accidently encountering an elderly woman while selling magazines in 1960. I knocked on the door of an old victorian style home in Burbank, Ca. and heard a faint voice inviting me to enter. I entered to find no one there except an elderly woman that seemed blind. She was expecting someone to come and read to her. She asked me if I had come to read to her and after not too much thought I answered, why yes of course. She pointed to an open bible on a bed stand next to her bed. I was nervous as heck because it just dawned on me that I am a notoriously lousy reader. Blooperer King of the world. I started reading and making mistakes and trying earnestly to read without error. I was trying to read and watch her at the same time to be sure I wasn't annoying her. After about an hour I thought I had read her to sleep. I put the bible back where I had found it and marked the page for the next reader. As I was getting up to leave she spoke, she said " thank you for coming to read to me, you are a wonderful reader" I left that room a different person, and have never forgotten what happened there that afternoon. So, bloopers? What the heck is that? If you are out there doing thing's in earnest, I think that even bloopers can be an asset.
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