Well, Don, what I ment to tell, coming in at the smallest café in the world in Istedgade I found some lads from the neighbourhood just sitting bended over, smoking, drinking coffee, almost non-speaking, sort of very depressed. I asked if I could be allowed to sit beside them, if I could be allowed to place my coffee at their table, then they awoke, were very polite, pushed the table in my direction. They asked what I did, my occupation, architect, well they relaxed while they thought I was a military man or police, cause of my big green hunting-coat. And for the next 20 minutes the world began to change, him on the left was an unemployed carpenter, I told him how he should walk from architect to architect, never give up, just ask if they had any project to be done, so he would calculate a price. He at the right just had gone bankrupt having a company with carpenters and so, working for a big craftsman-company who cheated him for about 200.000 $. I told him what to do next time, what I do with contracts to prevent the bigger company’s cheating the smaller ones. Persuaded him to carry on, to start again from fresh, how to carry on, how to get jobs, and we carried on how to get a better society etc.
And suddenly all the grey clouds were disappearing. I could just read from their faces that we all felt enlightened way deep down in our souls. It was just 30 strange minutes that just changed our way to approach life (at least for the rest of the day). Very long time since I’ve seen such a gifted moment passing by. For some strange seconds meaning of life just gathered together in a quiet strange way.
Thorkil
the fourth guy tried to hide, while the others we teasing him.
And the quit swedish girl at the right left without understanding anything of what was taking place.
Sorry for the quality.