Saturday, August 22, 2009

Backstage at the dunk tank

The secret to revenue generation in the dunking business, unlike most other for-profit operations, is to heckle, taunt, and browbeat your customers.

When I happened by the Canby United Soccer Association dunk tank, Carlito Negrete, 12, was giving a master class in public ridicule. This kid has a serious mouth on him. I'm not talking profanity or crudeness, just jeers, unprovoked attacks on people's manhood, and an outpouring of abuse quite impressive from someone his age. No one was spared. Young or old, it didn't matter to Carlito. As you might imagine, he spent very little time actually sitting on his perch.


Carlito Negrete (on the right) suffers the just consequences of his actions. Again.



Dakota Hunter, 14, (left) could only sit and watch as the bloodthirsty mob waited for Carlito to retake his seat.



But Dakota was a quick study and soon as he was deftly hurling insults of his own.

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