To make sure that your slightest need can find satisfaction anywhere, the vendors follow you everywhere you go. As you sit in the fast metro that deserves the faraway places of the megapolis, streams of peddlers try to convince you to buy excellent mexican music, delicious junk food, various useful tools... They even call you at home. The phone directory is free for businesses to access. And in all this attention-grabbing circus, beggars must display the most creative imagination to catch your eye.

The best beggar trick I saw:
In the metro, 5 year old kid comes towards me crawling on the floor. He's dirty and has holes in his clothes. I'm witnessing that in a "what the fuck" state. When he reaches my feet, he uses a little rag he's carrying to start cleaning my shoes. That are brand new and still shinning annoyingly from the shop 2 days before. Then he raises a deeply sad gaze on me and asks for... guess what.

Remember the windshield cleaner? That was a 10 year old kid. There are also kids selling stuff in various places. People buy more when it comes from kids. They are so cute.

Child labor is ubiquitous. And before judging that, ask yourself if they would really learn more in school.

There seems to be no strata of the society that is not trying to sell something. I was sitting in a park next to a punk yesterday. The PUNK tried to sell me stuff.