Lots of people think I'm lying when I say this but I actually DID work in a circus for a short time, when I lived in Moldova. I was the hawker, the person who stands outside the tent and yells "Step right up, folks! See the most amazing show of the decade!" and whatnot.
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@BlueMetalChick That’s a surprising fact about you. I’m imaging what it would be like if you did that job again. “Step right up, bitches! See the most amazing show of the fucking decade!” 😂
@SW-User This is possibly the best comment I've ever received omg I'm taking a fuckin' screenshot of this 😂😂😂
They chose me for the job cos I'm a Gypsy, and we have a long history of being affiliated with circuses. I wanted the job cos it meant I got paid, and I got to wear a men's suit and bow tie. I've always looooooved the way I look wearing men's formal clothes, especially with a bowler hat.
The actual circus acts were pretty fucked up. We had a strongman named Joe Hermann, he did the normal stuff like lifting improbably large weights and carrying pretty girls around on his shoulders, but he also was able to lift beer kegs with his nipple piercings, and barrels of pickles using his penis. His stage name was the Amazing Mister Lift-O.
We also had a guy named Paul Lawrence, who was covered in tattoos of blue puzzle pieces. He could eat pieces of broken light bulb without being cut, and walk across razor blades without bleeding. His stage name was the Enigma.
But perhaps the most demented act of all was Matt Crowley, who called himself "the Tube." His signature act involved drinking a beer, then having his friend slide a long section of clear vinyl tubing into his mouth, down his esophagus, and into his stomach. A bike pump was then used to siphon the beer out of his gut and into a glass mug. The friend would the drink it himself.
I once saw a woman literally pass out in the audience while watching the Tube's performance. She had to be carried off by the EM's.
I love wearing men suits. I feel badass and confident in them somehow. I used to be a singer in Vietnam once. There was this performance where I sang “Feeling Good” by Nina Simone while wearing men heels and a suit and tie. It made me feel handsome as woman lol.
Holy guacamole! Those acts sound incredible although I slightly vomited in my mind when I read the Tube part lol.
@SW-User You're from Vietnam?! Dude no way I used to live in Ho Chi Minh City!
Although I gotta ask, what are "men's heels?" You mean like heeled boots?
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@BlueMetalChick Wtfffff! We could’ve met each other because I lived in Ho Chi Minh City!!! What district did you live in though? Mine was district 5
I gotta admit that I didn’t know what they were called in English other than knowing them being precisely called “men heels” in Vietnamese. But I looked them up and yes, they are like heeled boots for men.
These look exactly the same as those that I wore for the “Feeling Good” performance
@SW-User Oh yeah those are called "Beatle boots" in English, so named because the members of the famous rock band the Beatles used to wear them. My dad wears those shoes a lot.
I lived in District 1, although saying I "lived" there is a bit of an overstatement. I was homeless when I arrived in the country so for most of my time there, my sister and I slept in a city park lol
You got me hooked on your story now 😆 Wow you’re full of surprises. Why did you decide to visit Vietnam without carrying any money? What did you do there? How long did you stay there? District 1 is considered the most developing district in the city so it’s also the district with most foreign visitors.
@SW-User I was a war refugee at the time, I was in Yemen but the Australian armed forces were doing a humanitarian effort to bring people out of the country. So I wound up in the Land Down Under, but I couldn't stay because I couldn't gain citizenship. So my sister and I robbed an ATM and used the money to pay a boatman to take us to the nearest non-Muslim country (meaning, not Indonesia) and we wound up in Vietnam.
Working odd jobs and committing petty crimes like pickpocketing and street scams, we survived well enough for about seven months until my sister got caught selling drugs, and we had to leave again. We wound up in Taiwan after that.
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@BlueMetalChick Pickpocketing is a thing here in Vietnam 😂 And you should see how those thefts snatch purses from female pedestrians while on motorbikes. You know, you could’ve become an English teacher there. Foreign English teachers are paid very well.
When did you live in Vietnam though? Sounds like a long time ago
@SW-User Well lemme see, I was about 13 at the time and Lexi was 16, so it was about nine or ten years ago.
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@BlueMetalChick Wow...That’s really young to live in a different country without the surpervisor of your parents...Awesome! Lol. Where was your father at the time?
@SW-User He and I were separated long before I left Yemen, he wound up in Qatar, and from there managed to locate his brother, Paul, and his mom, MJ, who were living in Chicago. When I was 15, he contacted me through international mail (I was in South Korea at the time) and had me brought to America.
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@BlueMetalChick I have something many questions rushing through my mind lol but I gotta doze off now since it’s 5:22 in the morning 😂 I hope we can continue this conversation soon!
