Dinsdag, 10 Desember 2002

Hulle glimlag altyd vriendelik en hulle het die gebruik van Pick-a-Pay trollies vervolmaak.  

Hulle beroep: papierherwinning.
Their trademark: patience and appreciation.  
Their motto:  ons deel want ons kry almal swaar.
A lot of people don’t even see them, if they see them they seldom look them in the eye and if they talk to them it is never a conversation.  They don’t beg, they have a job and it is like any other business – if you snooze, you loose.

Every Tuesday morning (except when one is ill – and dear reader : do not snigger) they visit our street and every time we talk I walk through the day a better person.  Soos in baie dorpe en stede leef  mense hier in ewewydige wêrelde wat skynbaar nooit op persoonlike vlak kruis nie.  Die verryking kom as hierdie wêrelde saamvloei en ons mekaar se harte hoor klop omdat ons gesprekke voer en mekaar se oë sien glimlag.