The Musicians Vs. The Sprinklers

This article submitted by Lyz and Nic on 10/13/00.

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The Tale:

We'd just started playing music together a few nights before. I (Lyz) was playing the Native American flute and my boyfriend (Nic) was playing the guitar. Anyhow, we'd decided that we'd gotten good enough to have an audience, so we went outside to play music for the passersby. In all respects, it was our first "concert".

Most people walked by us, but on one occasion, someone stopped to listen. We were playing some improv, and it was actually sounding pretty good! Anyhow, this guy on a bike stopped to listen, and we could tell he was really getting into the music.

However, fate had it that he was not to be around long.

A few moments after he'd stopped, a sprinkler exploded behind him -- literally exploded! The head came off the sprinkler, and water spewed into a geyser 25 feet high, which then rained down on our only audience member.

Nic and I scrambled to salvage our instruments (all wood and leather) while our drenched audience member swore and continued on his biking expedition. We moved to another location and resumed playing.

Not five minutes later, the sprinklers struck again... at least the sprinkler didn't explode, it just turned on... and proceeded to drench the area in which we were playing. Another mad scramble. At least there was no unfortunate fellow who got drenched.

We've about decided that the sprinklers have it in for us, so we have decided to play inside from here on out.

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