John Karls is an audience member of the most devoted sort. Not only does he regularly shell out upwards of $200 for the most expensive seats in the house at countless ballet and opera performances, he scrapes up a few extra dollars every night for a top-shelf bouquet, which he will then heave in the direction of whichever performer pleases him most. “He has attended upward of 2,500 performances and tossed some 750 bouquets in a career spanning more than half a century… Mr. Karls uses a two-handed toss not unlike that of a hammer thrower… The real issue is wind resistance: the cellophane wrap can cause significant drag and can make a bouquet do what Mr. Karls calls a ‘dying duck’ over the orchestra pit.”