At the doctor, in the waiting room, it’s early morning. A couple is seated on a sofa. The man is carrying their little, crying baby. Nurses are walking around and a cleaner that has entered the room, says “good morning” and puts more coffee in the cofee machine. A young lady is reading a book, next to the window. There is a door in the room.

An old man and his son are in the center of the room. The old man is seated on a two seat sofa and the son is standing besides him, in the left side. A wheelchair is right behind them.

The son - Father, you have to drink some water before doing the exam.

Old Man - Why they are taking so long to call me?

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It was a winter’s day in January, quite cloudy.

I was in the train going to Dupont station and there was a blond middle age woman alone, reading a book in front of me.

When the train stopped at St. George station, a man entered the train and seated close to the woman. He looked older, at random… long beard, messy hair and dirty pants. I would say he was a beggar.

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Once he was leaving his grandfather’s house and suddently a middle age man came to him, crying a river and talking desperately.

He said his father had just had a heart attack, he’s called an ambulance but it didn’t come. So he put his father on the backseat of a taxi, parked a few meters away.

He told him that during the journey, he said to the driver he couldn’t affort the ride because he was very poor.

The taxi stopped and the driver said he was not going anywhere without payment. It was just a street away from the grandfather’s house. The desperate guy needed money to assure his father’s life.

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