I’ve seen him before. Quite a few times actually.
Yesterday, just like every other time, I did exactly the same thing — I looked everywhere but in his eyes. Approaching him, I looked at the non-existent email on my phone, my watch, anything — and slightly quickened my gait until he’d disappeared from my peripheral vision. To get away.
He was crouched, sort-of, on the footpath. With desperately deformed and totally useless limbs, he is basically a head on an inept body, and was gripping what used to be a Starbucks cup in what used to be his teeth for people to put coins into.
I didn’t give him any money and I felt like a total prick.
I went back later to find him, but he wasn’t there. Now I keep thinking about him. I hope he’s ok — as ok as he can be (without sounding like a condescending arsehole).
Beggars. In my part of the world it is sadly quite a popular pastime.
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Then there’s a man who prostrates himself on the ground near the exit to a train station. Definitely not a religious experience. He’d probably prefer to sit, but legs normally come in handy for that.
I’ve been to India a few times and tragic doesn’t come close, women and men knocking on your car window holding up badly deformed babies. Your heart breaks, but you take the advice you’ve been told not to give them anything, as they don’t benefit. I suppose that’s true.
You still feel like a total prick.
Then you go to some parts of Europe and encounter “professional” beggars who will try and scam and / or pickpocket you. These people give the real beggars a bad name, so it’s probably why you get suspicious of anyone on the street that doesn’t look “right”. As bad as that sounds. And it sounds really bad.
I’ve gotta find Mr. Starbucks.
©Steve Williams 2013