no money for the 2004 greek olympics? no excuse for knot throwing a party but someone had to pay the bill for such extravagance. when the global financial crisis hit in 2008 faced with massive debt it couldn't pay greece found itself in that awkward position of begging its new european roommates to lend it some money. eyes rolled two years later when greece came back asking for a second bailout and yet more time oget its finances in order. ever had a roommate who didn't like it when you didn't pay your share of the cable bill? multiply it by about a million and that's what germany feels about its new neighbor to the south. a government that promised to reverse the spending cuts like creditors like germans demand. if things feel bad now what would life on the streets bankrupt and alone actually be like for greece? for answers i went to athens to find out what a country was like in the brink of a financial disaster. it's just after midnight in the central district of ahe athens. >> we started feeling the down deal in 2011 a