Will one of the nation's greatest violinists be noticed in a D.C. Metro stop during rush hour? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040401721.html
"It was the most astonishing thing I've ever seen in Washington," Furukawa says. "Joshua Bell was standing there playing at rush hour, and people were not stopping, and not even looking, and some were flipping quarters at him! Quarters! I wouldn't do that to anybody. I was thinking, Omigosh, what kind of a city do I live in that this could happen?"
Simple Truth - we miss amazing things in our lives all the time, this is just a glaring example.