10-26-2007, 09:00 PM
OK, there's a lot to be said against living in Amsterdam. We have our junkies, a lot illegal prostitution (leaving a judgment about legal prostitution to your own opinion), and right now ethnic unrest in one of the suburbs.
But here's the lighter side: I was to the barber today, and while he was cutting my hair, a man tried to enter the shop in a wheelchair. But the door was not wide enough. So one of the other barbers put on his coat, and started to cut the legless man's hair right on the sidewalk of a very crowded street... (No, that's not the barber, but just to show the street.)
It might have happened everywhere: in Austin, in Tehran, in Ankara. But these are the moments on which I really love my city.
But here's the lighter side: I was to the barber today, and while he was cutting my hair, a man tried to enter the shop in a wheelchair. But the door was not wide enough. So one of the other barbers put on his coat, and started to cut the legless man's hair right on the sidewalk of a very crowded street... (No, that's not the barber, but just to show the street.)
It might have happened everywhere: in Austin, in Tehran, in Ankara. But these are the moments on which I really love my city.