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[oakenguy]

So yesterday I performed down at Kidsfest, in Middletown CT. It was my first time working with puppets, but not my last--it turns out, I've discovered, that when any child under 6 sees a puppet they roll a 6-sided dice in their heads, with 1 being 'scared', 6 being 'ecstatic rapture' and the other numbers being emotions in between.

I did have one awkward moment when I was interacting with a baby in her mother's arms and a bug flew right into my mouth. Here's a transcript:

ME: And how are you to--*hack!* *cack!* *pth-tooie!*
BABY: *slow lizard-like blink*

And here's the transcript the way it would've been if humans were telepathic:
ME: And how are you to--there's something in my mouth! It's buzzing! I think it bit my tongue!
BABY: What a whiner. I don't have enough strength in my neck muscles to tilt my head and you're complaining?

Comments

[ah42.livejournal.com]

Heh. Middletown... That's like, almost a second home. Almost because it's like 15 miles southeast from what I'd consider "second home." :P

The sad truth is that flies and mouths belong together like ... like... oh bugger. they belong together like me and not being able to find the right words :P

[lilacsinmarch.livejournal.com]

LOL,did it really bit your tongue?

[themikado.livejournal.com]

In the past few weeks, I have had no less than four insects fly into my left eye, for some reason. It's rather distressing having to wipe their corpses off my eyelashes.

I have no idea why this is happening. Maybe my eye looks like the tiny fly equivalent of a bee orchid or something, and they desperately want to have sex with it.

Anyway, back to work...

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I think so! I got a little painful jolt, so I was either bitten or stung, and I don't *think* it was a stinging insect.

[podkayne8.livejournal.com]

First of all - I am a 6 = Puppets are evil!!

and LOL BABY: *slow lizard-like blink*
Maybe the baby was just thinking - damn that fool ate my lunch! ;)

[podkayne8.livejournal.com]

Okay feh, I can't read or count. I should have said I am a 1 - according to the puppet scary/good scale.

[badassfaerie.livejournal.com]

Hee Hee! that is sooo true. That's what makes it fun.

The even better part, is you never know when it might get rolled again. But those moments of pure 6 make it all worth while!