Monday, November 17, 2008

The Man in the Museum Quartier

There is a man in Vienna, Austria who goes to the Museum Quartier with a broad grin. He wears a blue sweat shirt and carries a gym bag as he greets other people who happen to also be at the Quartier, mostly art enthusiasts. He greets newly walking toddlers by running over and patting them on their head before moving onto their mothers. His main goal would appear to be to make people smile.

He has one tactic that he considers his favourite when it comes to making women in the Quartier smile. He will begin by pointing across the square in the middle of the museums and tell his target woman or women that he is going to give them a show. The target audience may not notice but that will not stop him dropping him gym bag and removing his sweat shirt.

The man now only in a white singlet reveals that he does spend a bit of time in the gym and this important to the tactic to make a woman smile. The man now begins to flex, turning it into a dance with a full 360 rotation. Satisfied that he has satisfied, the man pulls his sweatshirt back on, gestures for the women to smile widely, picks up his gym bag and continues through the Quartier.

The display made several things clear. The man has nowhere else to be in the middle of a Thursday. The man has no special woman for whom he performs. The man spends his time outside the Quartier mostly at the gym.

I’m not sure if he performs elsewhere.

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