At The Beaches....Selling?

I TRIED to sell at the beach yesterday.
The wind kept on blowing my sign over.  Once I got it up, I either got ignored, or people did "The Polite Canadian" thing...they thought that I must be a Somebody, and they should just look at me in wonder, but not approach at all....thanks to my book sign, saying "Presented to H.H. The Dalai Lama"!!!
A tiny little boy liked Fluffy, though!  He just kept standing there, and waved at Fluffy!  Fluffy liked him a lot!
Someone eventually felt sorry for me, and gave me $2.00.  In loonies!!! Laundry money!  She looked at something that cost $2.00, as I told her!  She refused to take it.  Said someone else might buy it.
I was thinking..."Please, take it!!!  It's a compliment to my art!" but didn't want to guilt trip her into something that she didn't really want.
Sometimes, even getting things stolen is a weird sort of compliment to an artist....

The thunder began, and black clouds gathered. I saw lightning flash from cloud to cloud.  I packed up fast, even though everyone else ignored it.
The rain just spit a bit on my way home.  Didn't rain until late at night.
A thunderstorm, I guess.  This morning, I found that my Bell pvr had deleted ALL of my saved recordings!!!  They had a thing go wrong in my area overnight the recorded voice said.
A day in the life...