Wuensch allen und ihren Lieben eine schoene Weihnachtszeit, wo auch immer.
I wish everybody and yours a happy chrsitmas period, whereever you are.
Jens
Wenn man eines in Sydneys Strassen finden kann, dann sind es Einkaufswagen. Einkaufswagen sind praktisch, kunstvoll aus handverlesenen Einzelteilen geflochten, glitzert die Aluminiumoberflaeche im Sonnenlicht. Ein nuetzlicher Kamerad in allen Lebenslagen. Er ist hilfsbereit, immer einsatzfaehig, ob Winter oder Sommer, er kennt keinen Schmerz, er ist ein wunderbares Fortbewegungsmittel, dienlich und pflegeleicht. Man kann damit Rennen fahren, ein Babysitz ist auch eingebaut, unten ist Platz fuer die schweren Dinge, oben fuer die Grossen. Er ist zweckmaessig, formvollendet und mit unglaublich vielen Vorteilen behaftet. Die Rollen koennen sich bequem in alle Richtungen drehen und am Griff, der sich harmonisch an jede Handflaeche anschmiegt, kann man immer kleine Werbebanner finden. Menschen die auf der Strasse leben, koennen ihr gesamtes Hab und Gut bequem vor sich her schieben, wenn’s bergab geht kann man sie auch einfach mal rollen lassen. Dieses Schmuckstück hat einfach Hand und Fuss, es ist ein Juwel, nein ein Glanzstueck, nein wenn nicht sogar das Meisterstueck der Schmiedekunst . Wenn man so genau hinschaut, dann sehen sie auch ein wenig wie ein Ozeandampfer aus, wahrscheinlich wuerden sie sogar eine Kollision mit einem Eisberg ueberstehen, es muss sich nur jemand finden, der mit einem Einkaufswagen den Atlantik ueberquert und der der gesamten Menschheit beweist, was fuer ein nützlicher Gegenstand so ein gewoehnlicher Einkaufswagen sein kann. Er ist der Held des Alltags, der das langweilige Einerlei mit seinem melodischen Klappern aufhellt.
Das alles bedeutet sie haben einen unglaublichen Wert und das heisst wiederum, die Einkaufszentren, die uns gemeine Kundschaft mit diesen wunderbaren Gefaehrten ausstatten, haetten die auch gerne alle unter einem Dach, alle Macht gebuendelt im Zentrum, dem Paradies fuer Einkaufswagen.
Hier in Australien haben Sie sich deshalb etwas einfallen lassen, um alle verlorenen Schaefchen zurueck ins Trockene zu bringen und die Strassen einkaufswagenfrei zu bekommen.
Das zauberhafte Spiel heisst Trolley Tracker (Einkaufswagensucher). Die Australier bieten eine kostenlose Hotline an um jeden einsamen Wagen, der in einem unverhaeltnismaessig grossen Abstand zum heimatlichen Hafen geparkt wurde, zu lokalisieren, ihn dann vom mobilen Einkaufswageneinsammelteam abholen zu lassen um ihn wieder mit dem Rest der Herde zu vereinigen. Jede erfolgreiche Abholung wird registriert und monatlich ein gluecklicher Anrufer mit einem 1000$ Einkaufsgutschein belohnt. Wo packt man das ganze Zeug rein und wer transportiert es ohne zu zucken zum Auto? Der Einkaufswagen.
(Anrufe werden auch aus anderen Laendern entgegengenommen) … besser als Lotto.
Hotline : +1800 641 497
If you can spot one big thing walking through the streets of
All the homeless people can pull their stuff wherever they want, if it goes downhill, they just roll.
This piece of jewellery is genius, the crown of human creation, no the masterpiece of mankind.
If you look really close, they look a bit like a big ship, don’t they? I think they would even survive a crash with an iceberg. We just have to find a man who wants to cross the
He is the hero of every days live, who turns the boring stuff with it’s melodical rattle and makes live liveable.
That means they or worth it and the shopping malls, which provide us usual costumers with these wonderful buddies, want to have all together under their roof, the paradise for trolleys.
They got a nice solution here in down under to get all of the lost guys back and make the streets trolley free.
The game is called trolley tracker. The Australians provide a free hotline to find every lonely wagon, which is parked far away from it’s general port, and pick them up by a crew of professional and high skilled trolley pickers. Every call and successful pickup is registered and ones in month one of the callers is picked to receive a 1000$ voucher for their service. And where to pick all the stuff and who is going to carry it to the car? The trolley!
(Calls are answered from every country all over the world) … better than lotto.
We had a mission.. Jack and I sit at the big wooden table in our kitchen and rested our arms on the pane of glass on top of it. Supported by our elbows, we straitened our upper body to discuss with interested faces our plan, our mission, our task. Jack was waving his hands and draw pictures and shadows in the air of what was expecting us, he gestured, waved his hands from the left to the right and was grinning all over his face. I really thought that it’ll work. We were confident and there were three of us. Jack put the key of his 1986 Holden Commodore in his pocket and we strolled out of the kitchen in the small and narrow corridor, Abigail came down the old wooden stairs and we were completed.
We sprung optimistic out through the door, walked down the old stone path in the front yard, down the front stairs on the walkway, turned left in a small street navigating us to the backyard.
The old, white kombi, which was parked there, bought Jack for him and his girlfriend on their arrival in
Glebe is a nice area, little cosy bars and cafes, family business and these old Victorian styled houses crossed by. It was warm and humid, the air poured through my open window and blowed in my face. It felt refreshing and tickled my nose. The skyline flashed through the holes and niches of the roofs and the narrow streets at the crossroads. We turned left on Broadway and followed it until Central Station, turned right after the station and I found myself still wandering about the traffic rules down under.. driving on the left, that’s dangerous. Everything I saw before and my experience, except 5days in good old
We were close to our final point, some side streets, 2 or 3 more blocks and Jack parked the car close to a walkway. We strolled up the street and noticed a white sign, we knocked the door and an Australian woman greeted us friendly. She wore a red tank top, green shorts and was in her thirties. She was expecting us, she knew we would come and asked us to come in her office. We used the black chairs to sit down and wait. We had to wait, we were too early and hadn’t expected to get here that quick, so we could watch the conversation of some young people with the Australian woman, discussing their plan, their mission, the same as ours.
The Australian woman apologized for any inconvenience and the delay, she knew we came voluntary and our manpower was urgent for her. She tried to keep our waiting time as short as possible and wanted us to feel as comfortable as possibly while she was talking to our companions. She said goodbye to them and waved us to come over. We shaked hands and the show could start. She said: “First thing, if you guys don’t wanno look that, if you don’t wanno consider working like that in the streets of
We passed her little test, we were prepared, self confident and really wanted to work for this lady. She gave us a letter of application and we filled out the blanks to register. Our mission was boarded, she waved her hands, gestured and talked loudly, like Jack did in our kitchen. She used her entire body to prepare us for our purpose of next day. It seemed like she must have done the same thousands of times on her one, she knew how, this fact motivated us even more. “Make them laugh and smile, that’s all you need to know, that’s the hole secret, be nice an earn twice.”
When we turned around to say good bye I took a quick, last look at the picture, which was now lying right in front of her on the desk.
It showed two smiling girls, dressed in white shirts, covered with reindeer enders in multiple colours. They were around their waist, around their necks, arms and legs and on their heads. We knew it must have been at least 200 of them, that’s the usual stock for a day like this. “Kid’s cancer” was printed on their shirts in big, black capital letters framed of a heart.
At the moment I stepped over the threshold to get back on the street I was really looking forward to sell reindeer enders and raise money to help children with cancer.