{"id":1162,"date":"2018-02-22T09:30:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T14:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2018-02-23T08:48:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T13:48:12","slug":"adrian-burr-workers-rights-and-rubber-ducks-an-instaessay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2018\/02\/22\/adrian-burr-workers-rights-and-rubber-ducks-an-instaessay\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Burr: Worker’s Rights and Rubber Ducks – An Instaessay"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cIf you get the ring to land on the jar in the middle, you get to keep the fifty dollar bill taped to it, see?\u201d Andy hands me a small, red plastic ring. I toss it. It misses. \/\/ \u201cIt\u2019s called entrapment,\u201d Bud explains, \u201cPeople can\u2019t help but try it once they see that money.\u201d Bud\u2019s been in the carnival business thirty years. \/\/ \u201cThere\u2019s an old Gypsy saying that all us carneys leave behind is cigarette packs and wagon tracks.\u201d He looks at me. \u201cGirls come here to get knocked up \u2018cause the guys are gone in a week. A lot of people work here \u2018cause they\u2019re wanted by the cops.\u201d \/\/ \u201cJesus Bud,\u201d Andy interjects, \u201cyou gonna tell her everything?\u201d \/\/ Bud ignores him. \/\/ \u201cThe games with the big prizes are rigged. You see that guy?\u201d He points to the meaty, ponytailed man in the next stall. \u201cHe\u2019ll rip you off faster than you can blink. But Mary over there is nice, you should talk to her.\u201d \/\/ Mary sells Scooby-Doo dolls and a hundred bow-tie-toting rubber ducks that float round and round in a plastic blue baby-pool. I take a picture of the plush poop emojis hanging from Andy and Bud\u2019s tent ceiling. \/\/ \u201cThey treat you like shit too,\u201d Bud continues, \u201cI got interviewed in Cleveland once and talked about it. All the other carneys got mad at me for speaking the truth. But where I come from you don\u2019t lie.\u201d He stands a little straighter. \/\/ Over the crowd echoes a tinny recording of children singing \u201cTake Me Out to the Ballgame\u201d. \/\/ I smile and thank Bud and Andy for talking with me, to which Andy replies, \u201cOh don\u2019t worry about it, you\u2019re a nice young lady, have a good day now.\u201d \/\/ I escape into the masses, my presence once more masked by the screams of children, the crank, grind, and whoosh of technical monstrosities, and the ringing lyrics; \u201cFor it\u2019s one, two, three strikes you\u2019re out\u2026\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n

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Adrian Burr ’19 is a Spanish and Creative Writing double major and a History minor. She loves traveling, good food, and salsa dancing. Her favorite poet is Pablo Neruda.\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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