Bums of Reykjavik
Posted by Rúna Vala - 03/07/09 at 09:07:36 am
Jamesfisher
Me and my husband take in couchsurfers, people that we know usually only from profiles and emails, and let them stay on our couch. Earlier this year we had a girl to our house. For some reason she was waiting at BSI bus terminal until it was time to go to the hostel that she would stay at for the first night. She sat there, looking all touristy with a map in her hands when two dodgy men approached her. It was early in the morning, around eight o’clock, and they smelled of spirits and looked like they hadn’t had a bath in quite some time.
They casually sat down by her side and started speaking to her in good English. They told her that their names were Sævar and Kiddi, they spoke for a while and finally they asked her if they could invite her out for some breakfast. She unreluctantly accepted the offer. “OK, great! Can you drive?” said one of them. “We have a car outside the building, but we’ve had one or two, you see”. She took the wheel and they led the way. They drove from one place to another, starting at the nicest and most expensive restaurants in town, even while showing money and promising to behave, no one would serve them, not even at fast food places. Finally they came to a place called Vegamót, a rather good bistro in town where they got served breakfast. Is there reason to keep on going, to say that they behaved after all?
The moral in this story is that most people aren’t bad. In fact, most people you meet are quite kind, helpful and friendly. Recently we had an Israeli family of three, a couple with a two year old daughter. Their passion is traveling and even after the girl was born they didn’t stop. This trip was their second one as a family of three, the other one being in Asia when she was nine months old. They stayed at people’s homes as before via Couch Surfing, basically trusting these strange people with their lives and the live of their daughter. And behold, they are still alive, haven’t gotten robbed and are still at large in the CS community.
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