Reverse saturday

What does a typical saturday night look like? Well, here are the usual suspects of a saturday night fever!

• You go out ...
• ... with your friends.
  
• You may optionnaly go and see some live music.
• You spend your money more than in any day of the week.
• You eat unhealthy food.
  
• You drink unhealthy liquids.

So why reverse ? Reverse Saturday, back to the Friday ? Is it that I feel like Marty McFly or something? Neeeeeeeeeeee ! Here is the solution of the equation :

• I didn't go out, I went in. Inside Châtelet metro station.
• I was alone. I had some friends that had to come and see me but never showed up.
• I was the one playing live music.
• I didn't spend money: I earnt quite a sweet amount of cash :) Enough to spend in a bar but ...
• ... since my friends never showed up I stayed at home and no junk food : everything was closed so I cooked rice, salmon and veggies ...
  
• ... but I must admit the unhealthy liquid point is the exception that confirms the rule. Yes I am drinking Coke tonight! And no Diet nor Zero: Real men's Coke!

Enjoyable time, alone with myself and with some I-dont-know-how-may-hundreds-of-people during the 3 hours I've been there.

Cool reactions :

• This group or 4 latin girls that would come, dance, sing around me and even take a lot of pictures hugging me while I was singing ... a pity they didn't let their phone for the after party :)
• This chinese family that would film and take many pictures of the Jealous Guy :)
• Seeing familiar faces ... Châtelet is like the center of the world on saturday night ! I had already seen this musician, drunk in the Pont des Arts playing some Jimi H. stuff ...
• 2 guys thay were betting that they could give me five ... stage, even improvised, is intimidating and people would feel nice just hugging you ... while you are just one of them :) Sweet.
  
• Applauses ... people dancing .... smiles .... thumbs up ...
  

Lessons learnt :

• People would give money at the beginning of the set, even before the music starts. When they see the basket is emplty, they give. Once they see that there is quite a lot of coins in the basket, they would just stare at it -like a "He doesn't need more!" glance. So lesson if you want more: make a pit stop and take the money after one hour, to regenerate :)
• On Saturday night ... 10 pm to 1 am : people are drunk and you have to take much care when they feel like singing with you or even when they start a fight with the boyfriend because they want to sing in the mike and that the boyfriend wouldn't let do ... happened twice tonight ...
  
• Even if there are some dangerous drunk people, having people dancing with your songs after 2 glasses of wine is VERY enjoyable :)
• Singing without microphone, lyric-style, is pretty cool and appreciated. Next time, I should try without the amp and just bringing the acoustic guitar with the natural reverb.
  
• Definitely the more known are the songs, the better: Don't Worry Be Happy, Imagine, Jealous Guy, Bésame Mucho. I could loop with these 4 songs ...
  

Now I have to have my plutonium can and call Doc Brown :)

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