"Pour Some Sugar on Meeeeeee!"

Tasha Henderson, right, and her daughter, Coretha, left, pose for a photo outside their home in Edmond, Okla., Friday, Nov. 11, 2005, with the sign Coretha was forced to hold for an hour at a busy intersection so that passing motorists could read it. The 14-year-old freshman already has been forced by her parents to give up basketball and track because of slipping grades, and said she hopes to improve in school so she can play next year. (AP Photo)

But Tasha threw down the placard minutes after her mother was out of sight, and started dancing on the basketball pole behind her to music she had blaring from the family stationwagon, as Tasha, like practically everyone in America (but her parents, apparently), knows panhandling isn't the only way for young women with poor grades to get tips from strangers.