No outside service window Jerry. On the third floor there is a food service area with McDonalds, Chinese, Mexican, etc. On the first floor there is a grocery store and that is where I got my goodies. In the basement there is the M3 metro subway station and that was great. Get on at Vorresmarty station, eight stops later get off at Ujpest-Duna Plaza, grab the elevator to the 4th floor and bingo, no fuss no muss. The M3 was built by the Russians and was classic-built for speed, not comfort and that rig would come out of the station like a drag racer-hold on. The M3 sounded like an air raid siren and windy and noisy as all heck. What a way to start the day, get all jazzed up I suppose. What I found interesting is that the little kiddos used the M3 without escort. The school was just outside Arpid Hid station so all the little ones with book bags and such got off there, cute. There is Metro Cops at the station so they kept an eye on things for the kiddos well enough.
On the back side of things there was Gypsies hanging out looking to grab things and one of them tried to grab my computer bag, no luck for her that day-one learns to hang on to things or they are gone in a flash. Big problems with the Gypsies in Budapest. No one trusts them so they can?t get a reasonable job so they turn to thievery which is why no one trusts them-kind of a catch 22. The local Laws prohibit even the Cops from touching much less arresting anyone under 14 years of age so the Metro Gypsy thieves are just young kiddos and quick as lightning and no such thing as catching up with one of them, no way. So the wallet was in the front pocket and the computer bag strap was looped around my wrist, no watch no rings. No reason to be a target, right.
Then the other deal was the Metro Monitors, ex KGB thugs for the most part and their job was to check tickets and passes and levy fines for violators, or supposedly so. It helps to know the rules or the Monitors will shake down a tourist or non-Hungarian in a heart beat, frigging bullies. My deal was to start talking loud and fast and draw attention. That cooled their jets quick enough, you bet.
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09-02-2005, 05:33 PM
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