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cry. Trust me, you gotta be high to enjoy that. Hahahaha It ain’t nothing that I would recommend for people to do, but it’s like I told my mother, it’s what I’m going to do, I like it.

E: What’s the biggest tip you’ve ever got.

Bushman: A hundred. I’d say about once or twice a week I get a hundred or a fifty.

E: Do you ever have trouble with the IRS?

Bushman: No, I have my business license, I have a tax number. I have everything. You know, I go according to the law. What they don’t like about me is that I am doing it. And if they can catch me when I ain’t doing something right. If I slip, then they coming at me. I was even called for jury duty. Everything is right along with the system. I think they think I’m kinda another Robin Hood.

E: How does the street performer community work?

Bushman: If you come in new to town and somebody come down here and move in on somebody elses territory. They come down here and get the Bushman. Bushman this, Bushman that, If I get to cussin’ everybody gets to jumpin’. If I say you gotta get out the way, or you gotta go over here, they do it directly. You know, it’s like I run it out here. I don’t run in a way to hurt nobody. The kids that have been with me for years, they’re like my children. I protect them. If you just come here from New York and you think you can just set up on him on his spot and he’ s been out here all of these years in the rain. You ain’t gonna do that. You go down the ladder and then come up.

E: How many old timers are out here?

Bushman: There’s about twenty that’s been out here the whole 26 years that I’ve been out here. But there ain’t a good fifteen left. The police they get them and they run them up and down the street and they threaten them and they put them in jail and they get scared and run. But here you go again, they run and come and get me, whenever the police come they run and get me. It’s not that I’m trying to run nothin’ I’m just trying to keep the peace.

E: Do you get any money from Joe’s Crab shack?

Bushman: I don ’t take charity. I would feel like a beggar if I go and ask them for stuff. They should appreciate it theirselves. All of the stores around here have tried to run me out of here. All of them get together to try to get me out but when I get a crowd a people together and I jump up and run across the street and holler ha,ha,ha, they all run right in the store. The chain of command is what they follow, they gotta be like him and he gotta be like him but I don’t think any one of them has enough nerve to come and talk to me because they’ve done me so bad over the years. They have been bad, they try to inch up on me and play with me but I do have some around here, they done stuck with me. Like Allito’s, and the original owner of Lou’s they’re the people that when I started coming around here they would come and take pictures and tell me man you’re gonna make it. I think if it wasn’t for them I would probably be out of here.
 
 
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