the iron maiden

2 minutes to midnight yet

I'm afraid to shoot strangers

the age of innocence

is all in your mind

I have a burning ambition

to be brighter than a thousand suns

I'm not a weekend warrior

I've got the a fire in me

but I feel lost in a lost world

so I sing this nodding donkey blues

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My favorite t-shirt is an Iron Maiden band shirt which I wear most of the weekends. I live a gypsy life out of a 70L backpack, so I don't have much clothes with me and on weekdays I basically live in my work clothes and my pajamas. I love Iron Maiden and I love this t-shirt, I have it for over 10 years and it's becoming visible on it.

But every time I go out in it (weather in France or Hungary, Iceland or the UK) random middle aged white men come up to me to ask me to name 10 songs. Usually they do it with a creepy smile, like they know I won't be able. Well bad news, I am. I should start charging them because if I'd get a Euro each time I get asked I wouldn't need to work a single day in the rest of my life.

But what is actually interesting, is that it only happens with this t-shirt. I have other band t-shirts I like just as much. Not just the shirts but the bands, too like Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones or The Guns N' Roses but nobody asks me to name ten songs from them. Like, ever. Why? What's with Iron Maiden? Or I do I come off as someone who couldn't like a band like Iron Maiden, but any other band? And why no one asks me which is my favorite song?!

I'm gonna start charging... or just show them this poem and see if they figure what it really is.