youths of twenty and an old lady on mitropoleos street

I remembered that it was near the Starbucks located at the corner of Mitoropoleos street, Athens. I saw three young guys in their twenty sitting on the road side, and selling small, cheap toys for children as a souvenir of not Athens or Greece, but something else, not special.

The cheap toy was actually a small rubber ball. It was an egg-size and seemed to be so soft that once the ball hit the flat ground, it was bashed in flatten like a fried egg shape. Then after a while, the rubber ball was gradually becoming a original ball shape again. And these small balls were decorated as a small tomato with vivid primary red color, or a pig with an comical, impressive nose.

Whenever these guys found tourists with their children or even infants, they started to hit their sample balls on the flat square board again and again until tourists passed by or happened to show some interests.

At the time, the old lady was passing by these youths on the street. The lady did not look like a tourist, so the guys did not start hitting a small ball on the board. They were just chatting, and boring. The old lady was slowly approaching them, and suddenly handed a 2 euro coin to one of these. She showed totally no interest in a small toy, and indicated by a simple body gesture that the guys could share the coin. The old lady went away. The guys looked at each other in a little bit perplexity, and began to put the toys back, then went away slowly.

Here was on Mitropoleos street, Athens