Besøgsven

På TV2 Fyn var der et indslag om Røde Kors besøgsvenner her til aften.  En fredelig mand i tresserne var blevet besøgsven for en dame i halvfjerdserne. Og det var en stor succes.  De var ikke blot besøgsvenner; de var rigtige venner.  Han sad næsten med tårer i øjnene og fortalte om, hvor nært de stod hinanden. Hun var rigtignok en dame i egen sovs, skrap og med meninger og utallige cigaretter.  "Nu tager du mig jo ikke fra min gode vinkel", sagde hun til tv-fotografen.  Ude i haven havde hun et drivhus, "men jeg kunne jo slet ikke nå at spise alle de tomater, og han har jo ikke noget drivhus, så nu bor hans tomatplanter til leje i mit drivhus, det er så smart".

På klingende fynsk kundgjorde han at "så længe vi u'ånder. Og indånder.  Vil vi være venner".

Hun: "ja. Eller, i hvert fald til tomaterne er modne"

Se, derpå kender man et rigtigt venskab! :-)

@ N ~  ee ~ R ~ and the other chosen ones ;-)

The Red Cross do other things than save lives in Sudan. Here in Denmark, they come to the rescue of elderly people who are lonely.  You can go to your local Red Cross office and sign up to be a "visitor friend" (expats in DK - better translation, pls?). And then you go and visit your designated OAP every week or every fortnight or whatever you agree on.
There was an interview on local tv today, about two such persons whose Red Cross-initiated arrangement had evolved into a real friendship.  The "visitor friend" was a quiet man in his sixties who described with great emotion how close they were. The "lonely elderly person" was a feisty 70-something-year-old lady who berated the photographer for filming her from the wrong angle.  She had a greenhouse in her garden "but I couldn't keep up with all the tomatoes. But he doesn't have a greenhouse, so now I let his tomato plants grow in my greenhouse; it's a very neat arrangement".


At the end of the interview, he said (in a wonderful local dialect): "as long as we breathe out. And in.  We shall be friends"


to which she added: "yes. Or, at least until the tomatoes are ripe"

- And that, my friends, is how you recognize a true friendship :-)