On
upon a time my girlfriend and I wanted to do something. It was one week
before Christmas. The snow was falling slowly outside the window. We made
up a plan: to get up very early every morning all six days in the week
before Christmas Eve. To put on a very rich and fancy, long and thick furcoat.
To make up with eyeshadow and lipstick - but not too much. To take the
car to the endstation of the subway. To enter the early morning train that
brings all the people to work in the city. To reach out one hand to every
passenger, to do the begging, in silence.
And so we did. First we had to find some very rich friends who
would like to lend us their fancy furcoat. Then we had to get up very early
in the morning and put on red lipstick. Then to drive in the thick snow
and wait for the train to come. And then we entered the train. In the warm
waggon we began the begging. And the train stopped at the first station
called FREEDOM. And did not leave the station until we left the train.
Because begging is not allowed in this country.
So we get up very early the next morning to continue our duty but my
girlfriend had a bad toothache and we went back to bed. And the toothache
did not stop until the sixth day of the week. So we got up very early in
the cold morning and put on our warm furcoat and drove out to the train
waitingfor us to come. We went all the way into the city passing the stationsnamed
Soulcrazy, Streamfield, Icehigh, Sunred Strand, Beertown, Southharbour,
without being stopped from begging.
One woman gave us 5 crowns. She was dark and an Indian woman.
On the seventh day we got up very late in the morning and we gave back
the furry coats to our rich friends with many thanks and a bottle of wine.
They had been freezing all week.
My girlfriend might be in Budapest right now working on another project.