Once, long ago, I was talking with a homeless man. Who sat in the presence of two large dogs under a station roof and begged. On a cardboard sign next to it was: 3 poor dogs.
When I asked: Where is the third poor dog? pointed to the homeless themselves.
I gave him something in his hat. Today, yes begging at railway stations is not allowed, something like this can only do bankers. The do not because no one gives them anything voluntarily. But then they admitted that even the homeless to have that if they did not have to beg to sit outside in the rain and the cold.
the homeless counted on, where he had been everywhere already, in Heidelberg, Freiburg, Munich, in many southern cities. In Heidelberg, it is most was worst, where the police had driven him to the outskirts and it just exposed, and the middle of the icy winter.
Here in Hamburg it liked him well, but the city is fairly overrun with other homeless people. Hamburg is just a good place - except the police. But there was here, in relation to other cities, more police officers who were thinking human, and sometimes turned a blind eye when he begged his business there, or plaster paintings, where it is not allowed.
Whether begging worth? Well, the dogs made it easier. Many people are fond of animals and donated money for dog food. He heard also from time to abuse. These people asked him always as he could muster for the high dog tax, if he was a millionaire in disguise. Still others under him, he would pay absolutely no dog tax.
And? I asked and gave him five € (to bribe him, he told me his story on) Pay a dog license?
He looked at me suspiciously, but then decided for me to hold harmless and not from any authority. If the police ask for the tax stamp, I say that I lost it.
That was not a direct answer to my question, but I did not complained. Whether it would be a hindrance non
, wander about without a roof over their head with two dogs to have. No, he said he loved his animals, she would be a duty. Without the dogs, he would have no obligation - and that he needed. Of course this brings with it disadvantages. With the dogs in tow, he could not go to the homeless shelter or in a youth hostel.
The guy I liked. What struck me was his sense of humor. It was not cheerful, but a kind of fatalistic humor. He was still very young, maybe twenty-three, and he had something Soft yet decided. Just as he lived, so he wanted to live without restriction. The aimless drifting, not knowing what would happen tomorrow. This had only the present.
I was impressed von dieser Philosophie. Ganz klar, das begriff ich ,wenn ich nicht weiss, was die Zukunft bringen wird, brauche ich mir auch keine Gedanken darüber zu machen. Alles ist ein Provisorium.
Seine Habseligkeiten waren: Ein Einkaufsroller, ein Rucksack, eine Schachtel mit bunten Malkreiden für seine Pflastermalereien. Und eben die Hunde, die ihm eine Pflicht waren.
Als ich den Typ verliess, war ich sehr nachdenklich. Schon lange hatte mich jemand nicht so beeindruckt. All die oberflächlichen Leute, die ich kannte und die sich darüber Sorgen machten, wo sie ihr nächstes Fernsehgerät oder Handy am günstigsten erstehen konnten.
All das kam mir noch banaler vor als sonst.
Obwohl. um gerecht zu be, I actually often had no other concerns as such. And finally, I could not even begin to live homeless in order to develop a sense of the real values in me. For even the thought of not knowing where I did go to the toilet and me the next time can take a shower decent, me nervous.
What happened later in my homeless, I know of course not. Perhaps he has found work and returned to an apartment and into the so-called middle-class life. For he was not really a botched existence and not a drinker, only temporarily unemployed and without shelter. And he also gave me the impression, as he drifted, but rather that of a philosopher.
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