First we would like to give you a quick lesson about beads. In American New York City is #1 for bead tossing, Tampa is #2 and New Orleans is a distant 3rd for bead tossing. For the serious bead collector there are 2 categories of beads the “Hey Mister Beads”. They are 95% of the beads  tossed and are the 33″ plain beads. The name come from kids yelling at the floats, “Hay Mister Toss me Something!” LOL LOL Then there are the rest of the beads which are much more collectable. On a recent parade in Ybor City I was working the balcony bar. It was packed with party people. The parade started. There were beads flying thru the air, people screaming, music rocking the festive night air. Then an amateur drunk thru up in the middle of the group. LOL I called my back up helper. He quickly mopped the mess up. Unfortunately he couldn’t get back thru the crowd. I told him to leave the mop bucket next to the garbage can on the back wall. Back to slinging drinks and ducking beads as there were 100’s of them coming in. Just then some “Hey Mister” beads hit the back wall and feel into the mop bucket. A guys headed towards the beads. I tried to stop him but got the F U LOOK! He snatched the beads from the bucket and gave them a shake. Then put the beads around his drunken girlfriend’s neck. I started to say something when she turn pointing to the 100’s of  “Hey Mister” beads around her neck & said “Isn’t my boyfriend wonderful!?!? Look at all the beads he caught for me!” I just smiled and in my head said “Classy, Very Classy!” LOL