i use to eat breakfast at why not.. but the early morning druggies and alcoholic degenerates ran me off...
We sat opposite one morning and a homeless looking guy was hovering around us and stood next to our daughter watching her eat. I told her to offer him some of her food, and as she did so, he grabbed ALL of her food and ran off a few meters away, squatted down and ravaged it like an animal. We never go to the Boulevard anymore. The constant flow of singing kids I can handle, but that was not the first time I have noticed someone eyeing my daughter who likes to run around there as we sit back, relax and enjoy the views, we try to make sure she stays close, but better to be safe than sorry.
In that case, you should feel real good that you helped out a man who was obviously starving (and maybe a bit looney, hard to know from what you have written). Good on ya! In a case like that I may even have been tempted to give him 100. Its the beggars who use the money to buy beer and cigarettes that stop me from giving. I hope he did not scare your daughter too much but it was a good opportunity to show her how lucky she is that she knows she always has food to eat, whereas that man had nothing.
It was somewhat scary mate, I am sure he was intellectually handicapped in some way, just the way he reacted was so sudden. He did not speak at all, but it was like watching a starving monkey. My daughter was okay, just shaken, and we explained to her that he had a disability and it was not his fault, but that is what she needs to be aware of with some people who are like that. Just nowadays it is safer to eat inside an establishment than to sit in the open like we use to do.
I was put off The Boulevard when, quite recently, a beggar woman also "squatted down" one evening .... but when she got up she had left a steaming poo right in the middle of where people were walking. The owner of a nearby food stall covered it with sawdust; I wonder if he keeps a supply because such incidents are common.
That does sound disgusting, and yet the dogs do it all the time there and people step in it like they don't even look. This country has some maturing to do.
