You never really see a lot of people on the streets in the Stockholm suburb where I live, Sundbyberg. What you do see, though, is a million restaurants that most of the time look completely deserted, and I've often wondered on on earth so many restaurants can survive in such a small town. Today I found the answer. I'm sick and home from work, and for the first time since I moved here I have today experienced Sundbyberg by day. Or should I say, by weekday. Expecting it to be even emptier than normal, I obviously made no effort to look good. After all I have a fever, a headache and a sore throat, and was just going to the supermarket for some food, a movie and some ice cream, and I really did not look good.
But unexpectedly the town was full of people. Where they came from I will never know. It wasn't even noon, and yet all these people were heading out for lunch, filling up the otherwise so empty restaurants and all looking very businesslike. And here I was thinking that Sundbyberg is a place where people live, not a place where they work. Apparently it's the opposite. Where are all these people when I get home after work?
I liked seeing all these people, it made this little shithole seem somewhat more alive, but I just wish they'd chosen to show their faces on a day when I looked a bit more like my usual self.
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What I always wonder is why aren't THOSE people at work during the day, and more importantly, what is it that they do that allows them to not work but still love more than modestly??
ReplyDeletehahaha good question. i do think that these people were working though, they were just out on their (very early) lunch break!
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