He’s back!
Today walking home I heard the sound of a harmonica, and to my delight, I found my favorite crazy beggar is back! He goes practically naked when it’s cold, and wears an overcoat in the summer. He randomly blows on a harmonica and sometimes declaims to everyone.
Today I chatted with him and he showed me his handicapped person’s ID card. It turns out he’s only forty! I’d always thought he was over fifty! His name is Su Hong Kai, and he’s a Han person. (I’d always wondered if he was from Xinjiang.) He started asking me stuff about American money, about how much it costs to call the US on the phone, and said something like he wants to talk to a basketball player there.
I usually never give beggars money because there are a lot of scam artists, but this guy is really so nutty I don’t think he could ever get work. Plus, he doesn’t hassle people. He just does his own thing. Today he was wearing a strange woman’s ID card around his neck, and he had a long chain with a lock on the end wrapped around his waist. Teya and Pam, who were there looking at him when I arrived, said it was dragging along the street as he walked along.
April 7th, 2007 at 1:14 pm
Send me a copy of this guy. I need it for my blog.
I was happy to see him back!