Tibor | Egyetem square

„At the beginning of the 70s I had a serious head surgery, quite serious, I had to start everything from the beginning, I had to build everything again; the talking; the movements; I had to learn again how to live. I used to be a ceramist. before that but as it is a precision work, I could not continue – I lost my handcraft skills. After my recovery, which lasted for one and a half year, I, my mother and one of my brothers rented a house with a parcel and we cultivated that until 1999. We could make a living, but meanwhile I lost my partner and my mother died also.”
“And what happened to the farm?”
“I had a contract with Uncle State, my 150 quintals of potato was not taken over, not any other crops that were in the contract. Polish potato arrived instead of Hungarian. In a few months I went bankrupt, I could not rent that area anymore. Although it happened that I fell asleep on the job because we worked so hard.”
„Have you practically been living on the streets since then?”
“Yes. Although I managed to get employed twice, but at both places I was fooled, I was not registered, neither places were clean.”
“You are trying to get a job, obviously.”
“Oh, of course. Actually I would take any job but even the temporary jobs are rare. And well, I am 65 years old.”
“How do you get on with people?”
“To be honest, I do not like to walk around certain areas of the town at night. Let me tell you an example. One evening a young guy came to me at Blaha Lujza square, he asked if I had cigarettes. I did not. So he slapped me so hard I fell. But to say something good too, there is: it happened that I was looking for usable cigarette butts and somebody offered me not only one.”