While all Greek media keep on warning people to avoid being outside, Georgia Athanassiades had to go to work.
She sells lottery tickets, sitting everyday on the same corner, in Syntagma, since 1973!
" I was a young girl when I first came to Athens and I grew old on this very same corner. Now I'm a grandmother" she says smiling.
To her, it doesn't matter if the temperature is up to 44C or below zero 'cause, as she explains, she has to earn her living.
" Bills are running and everything's getting more expensive. What else am I supposed to do? But it's OK. It doesn't seem that hard to me. I'm used to it now. Besides, I like meeting people".
By the time I met her it was three after noon. She had been there since eight o'clock in the morning and wasn't going to leave before six.
" I've sold nothing yet" she tells me.
" Who trusts his luck now days in Athens? I hear no one saying that everything is or will be fine soon.
Recently, I cut orders by half and still I never sell all of them."
She was about to tell me more but I really had to go. I couldn't bear the sun burning my skin anymore though it was less than 15 minutes that I was standing there.
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