March 22 - Music Man

It is quite common to see people with little trolley's trying to sell things on the subway. Everything from arm-warmers that double as sun protection, to LED lights or chewing gum, all for only 1000 won. (That's about $1.)

In this case the man was selling music - the golden oldies from the 50's and 60's. Elvis featured strongly in his collection. Sales equipment is a small trolley loaded with stock, a CD player and I'm guessing some great big rechargeable batteries. He followed the traditional pattern of coming to the centre of the carriage and turning his music on and then loudly proclaiming the wonders of his wares while at the same time walking up and down the carriage hawking his offerings to his captive audience.

It always amuses me to see what is being sold - even more amusing is seeing who buys what and trying to guess why the 80 year old lady wants the big box of chewing gum ...