Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Accidents will happen

The Backbone of the Circus, The necessary Evil of Circusdom. Thats what they use to call candybutchers on the show. Jealous kinkers!!  Anyway, Honest Jake told me, "When a circus man goes bad, he winds up on the carnival.If you don't believe me look at Camelrider.
 Could be, most Candybutchers, myself included, look for other things to do when the show's not on the road, or if the show runs into bad territory. The bottom line is making money. It doesnt make sense to stick around doing free chinese and getting three bad meals in the cookhouse.
 Honest Jake came by and said, "let's go make the Kentucky Derby and a few other spots". One of his agents, Thomas also went along. So we headed to Louisville, but we had a few days to spare before the event. Jake had a house in Louisville and he had a couple of bunkbeds in the attic for us to use to cut down on expenses. There were boxes of toys and assorted things that Jake had picked up at different auctions and firesales. In the corner was a huge box condoms that Jake had picked up with the intentention of "horsebacking" them at bars around Louisville. He told me he tried hustling them around but got stopped by the fuzz and was told he had to have a special license to sell condoms. So he redlighted that idea and stored them in his attic.
 The next day Thomas spotted the box and said, "Oh yeh, I can use", these and stuffed his jacket pockets.
We made the Derby and had another few days  before the Indy 500 started. Thomas started dating a waitress that he met and things were getting hot and heavy. Indy came up and we made it and the time trials.
We went on the road and started making Fair dates with novelty stands. We had been on the road about 3 months when one night Thomas got a phone call and he turned white, without saying a word he packed his bag and asked Jake to take him to the bus station. When Jake got back I asked him what happened and he said. "That girl Thomas was dating called and said she was pregnant, so he had to get back to Louisville." Jake started laughing, "That'll teach that S.O.B. to keep out of my stock, Hell they've been in that attic for two years in sweltering heat and freezing cold. Probably pretty fragile...Ha! he should've wore 3 at a time."
"Oh yes," said Jake, "There's many a child in this world today that has their Uncle Jake to thank for being here." 
          
Accidents will happen.

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