Another thing is that you see homeless people almost everywehere, and eventually it doesnt faze you telling them no. We even got a pregnant woman in really nice clothes coming to us asking for money. This was very unexpected, and she let go a really sad story about her boyfriend leaving her in a restaurant 10 minutes ago, not having money or food to eat. And you stop to think about how they got to be like this. Obviously this woman was not in need. Her purse and shoes looking first class and you could see her hair was taken care of, so you end up getting a bad relation to people asking for money.
But the best and most creative angle of approach i have ever seen is this im about to tell you know.
We walk in the streets of capetown me and kris. We're looking for a taxi and never seem to catch a break, then we come down to a robot ( in south africa a robot is referred to as a lightdirected intersection). We are looking around and we see a lot of homeless people walking around, and were already prepared of the thought of being asked for money at this point. And then we see it, its a guy walking around clearly homeless, but he's wearing a santa claus hat and has a red bag over his shoulder ( no not like in the movies, this bag is made from delicious seethrough red plastic) and we look at each other and we just think at the same time : "this guy is awesome". He's cracked the code, and if it had'nt been for the fact that we got a taxi at that specific moment, i think i would have had to botch my no money to homeless people policy and tell congratulations to this guy for a job well done.
We are at this specific point in time me, håkon, kris and lars. We decided to buy airtime and get a milkshake, We went in to the rooms where lars was sleeping, and asked him if he wanted to come, since he was still laying in bed waddling. He went to bed around 23.30 and the time was around 9 a clock in the morning when we came in. So we asked him : " do you want to go grab a milkshake?" and he replies beautyfully: " what? no i think i need to rest a little" turning his back to us very smug.
We were the other day in a restaurant in observatory, whichc is a part of capetown, but away from the busy and hectic long street! We here sat and dined for a few hours, me coming a little late since i was working on the blogadditions at longstreet backpackers for peace and quiet(which didnt happen due to nosy and chatty people, which i dont mind, and the boys being situated in Obs(short for observatory). We sat there and the older man taking the orders seemed slightly absentminded, when he didnt remember i ordered sparkling water, but remembered the young amercan girl Bria's chocolate cake. So i decided i didnt need a sparkling water (cheaper for the wallet) but ended up buying several just 30 minutes later due to acute thirstyness. Anyway, the punchline is that the waiter was asked a question by a separate customer, which amused us severely:
In this reinactment the customer will be C, and the waiter will be W.
C. whats the price for the chocolate cake?
W: yes im going to tell you that right now, its 12.50.....i think.
This is hilarious for us, might be bad humor, might be lack OF humor, but for us its just a ray of shunshine in an already brightened up day since we get to be here in beautyful South africa, which was nothing like what i thought it would be.
And in addition Lars saw his golden opportunity flash before him when we were about to leave, they were about to close up shop, and our waiter looking long for his much deserved ours of peace and quiet from the busy streets of observatory. So when the waiter passes our table, and we have already paid, and the troubles of getting the order right seems in the waiters mind miles away, Lars says: uhm, hey, excuse me, could i order an ostrichburger?
HAHAHAHA!
Sometimes you just have to love him! you should have seen the face of the waiter! he was about to cry, and so did we, of laughter, but his was uhm, yeah, not of laughter!
But lars quickly replied: "no no im just kidding", and there was about a megatonn of relief coming of the waiters shoulders! and he gave lars a smerky smile telling us mostly " very funny you douchebag" but also giving him a slight satisfaction that he didnt have to actually make one it seemed.
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