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Post by saintegenevieve on Nov 23, 2022 3:02:16 GMT -5
Ah yes. It was early 1991. I had gone on a soul searching quest in Tobago. It was there where I first met my lover. We had gone off to harvest some wild honey. We soon became lost and after a few hours, we stumbled upon a homeless camp. More of a shanty town, if you will. The locals didn't like strangers, and brought us to the town Elders to decide our fate. Through very crude hand gestures & body language, it was to be determined that we would be stripped of our possessions. I recognized the gestures & was delighted to find out one of the Elders took the same mime course I did in Paris under the great Marcel Marceau. He said if we entertained them, they would show mercy on us. I took out my hammer dulcimer and started playing some freeform Brazilian jazz. My lover came in and did her interpretative dance of the seven veils. When we had finished our concert, the Elders were brought to tears. They voted to slaughter their only goat for a feast in our favor. Hours later, our bellies full of 3 pounds of roasted goat flesh, my lover and I had coitus. One of the Elders cut down a nearby yucca tree and made a carving of my lover and myself mid-coitus. It is a carving we both hold dear and we keep it in our tree fort in the small piece of property we own in the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland. Holy cow!! Had a co-worker from Trinidad. One of the nicest women I knew. Wish we hadn't lost touch Check out this creepy Unsolved Mysteries segment about two Obia Voodoo murders done in St. Croix. Total Papa Shango stuff |
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Post by saintegenevieve on Nov 23, 2022 3:11:15 GMT -5
Well, I've encountered some homeless people a lot, some good, some bad. The one person I had was real bad, he had mental problems. This was 5 years ago, I've seen this guy since October, he's stared at me sometimes and a lot. I could see him reading a book, he always was reading this book and doing this chant with his hands, In December of 2017, I tried to record what he was saying but he stared me down and yelled at me threatening to end my life and calling me a little boy. I was literally scared and angry at the same time. Let's just say he wanted to be left alone, I've heard that he was very much a mean person. January, I saw him try to fight somebody at a Subway WalMart. Somebody said something to him, So I just let it go. I could've reported this to the cops, but I would be frightened of what he would do to me if I did. In the Summer of 2018, He started wearing all White, had a White Bandana on his forehead, And there would be some times when he would be on and off again, Then September of 2018. He threatened somebody else and had the cops called on him. I saw him arrested by the police, I saw his mugshots years later. He was arrested 5 times for trespassing, assault, disturbing the peace and obstruction of justice. That day when I saw him get locked up. I thought to myself "Well somebody damn sure put him in his place". I've seen people arrested in my school like Teenagers and also when there would be a high chase or if someone was pulled over for stuff like that. I could see him beg and plead, Then 2019. I saw him again at Starbucks, he threatened an old dude who tried to give him food. That could've been my opportunity to not be afraid and call him out but I just let it go. All the times I wanted to hold back to fight him. I could've been in jail myself, but I let it go. That's the last time I saw him. I saw him numerous times before the pandemic in 2020 and that was it. I don't know where he could be, for all I know he could be locked up, in a psychiatric hospital, or maybe he moved out for good. But let's just say that day when I was threatened by him in December of 2017. It was a bad experience for me. I've had Bad Experiences like High School when a girlfriend broke up with me and I was depressed for 2 months, but this was fear & anger when he said that to me. Do I still hold that grudge?, Yes I do. But Do I wish him the best if he's still around?. Sure do. But you don't wanna make me angry. That Homeless person made me angry, feared and bitter. That's the crazy thing. Crazy ones usually don't do enough to merit a stiff sentence, so they go back to the streets. I'm pretty sure she got killed by a homeless guy. During Covid, a lot of Asians got hurt by a few crazy homeless people www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-02/ucla-student-brianna-kupfer-stabbed-26-times-autopsy-showsI see that you live in Virginia. Does he live near where you live or work? Crazy you've seen him so many times. They usually go away after a bit. One of my bar pals gave cigarettes to a homeless guy, who then snatched the pack from his jeans. They got into a huge brawl. Homeless guy ended up with a golfball-sized black eye. Cops never called him back to press charges. He only wanted to because a guy like that so unhinged could really hurt someone, even a kid, who isn't as skilled as defending themselves. Said the guy stuck rotten too and had on flip flops, as if he just got released from a mental institution |
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Post by saintegenevieve on Nov 23, 2022 3:12:07 GMT -5
I work for a retail store and if there's extra food such as sandwiches getting thrown out that night, I'll bag a handful and give them to any homeless people outside the shop or on my way home. We also have a Costa machine and I'll give them free hot drinks without paying for it myself either. Good for you. Way too much food gets thrown out every day |
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Post by Jack Specific on Nov 24, 2022 22:48:36 GMT -5
A couple of years ago my wife and I were in Walgreens. There was a homeless person looking through the trashcan for food and eating it. I saw that and bought him some deli-meat, bread, bottled water and some chips that Walgreens had. I handed him the bag and told him to please take this food instead of from the garbage. He went off on me and started yelling and cursing, refusing to take it. I kept trying to give it to him and he just stayed angry and just would not take it. So I just left the bag there and he threw it at me. That's what I get for being kind I guess. Now I just stick to buying our veterans their meals when I see them and as long as I have the money to do it.
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Post by The Real Valbroski on Nov 24, 2022 23:12:26 GMT -5
A couple of years ago my wife and I were in Walgreens. There was a homeless person looking through the trashcan for food and eating it. I saw that and bought him some deli-meat, bread, bottled water and some chips that Walgreens had. I handed him the bag and told him to please take this food instead of from the garbage. He went off on me and started yelling and cursing, refusing to take it. I kept trying to give it to him and he just stayed angry and just would not take it. So I just left the bag there and he threw it at me. That's what I get for being kind I guess. Now I just stick to buying our veterans their meals when I see them and as long as I have the money to do it. My bad, man. I was having a bad day. |
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Post by ~*Young $ Money*~ on Nov 25, 2022 15:40:45 GMT -5
I wish I had more good stories but most of the homeless here are also alcoholics. One goes the hospital everyday so he can get food and relax in a bed. I’ve never helped them but I do feel a bit bad for them.
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 2, 2022 12:17:10 GMT -5
I worked as a staff member for one of the biggest homeless resource agencies in Maryland. The year before that I was a volunteer. I left the place to do more in field volunteer work and did so for three years with my favorite things being bagged lunch food drives and delivery and helping found a church ministry where men and women could come once a week to get a hot meal and shower.
The clients were very kind to me, made me out to be a celebrity and often would only come to me for assistance even if doing mail checks. I had four people who became murderers so you see the worst in people sometimes. The mental health and drug or alcohol issues causes guys to get in fights, sometimes both have weapons or one guy hits someone from behind and they die. It's very sad. That happened after I was heavily involved and I got pretty burned out just from seeing the heartache of people's lives and some close to me dying from their addictions.
A friend of mine from work is a monthly lunch volunteer through her church, at the resource center I used to work. It's nice getting to go back because my time there was not the best. Not anyone's fault but mine. I wanted to do more and wouldn't follow the rules/guidelines. I proudly say I was the youngest employee they ever had at 25 but I wad too young to realize I needed to follow the rules.
I loved and still love the guests of the center and shelter (at churches). Out of hundreds of people I saw, sometimes 60 or more per day, I only had problems with maybe two people. Even as the youngest employee and being very small (5'3") I got a ton of respect from the men and women. I gave it to them right back if not before they gave it to me.
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Post by underjohngrohs on Dec 4, 2022 2:37:44 GMT -5
Well, I've encountered some homeless people a lot, some good, some bad. The one person I had was real bad, he had mental problems. This was 5 years ago, I've seen this guy since October, he's stared at me sometimes and a lot. I could see him reading a book, he always was reading this book and doing this chant with his hands, In December of 2017, I tried to record what he was saying but he stared me down and yelled at me threatening to end my life and calling me a little boy. I was literally scared and angry at the same time. Let's just say he wanted to be left alone, I've heard that he was very much a mean person. January, I saw him try to fight somebody at a Subway WalMart. Somebody said something to him, So I just let it go. I could've reported this to the cops, but I would be frightened of what he would do to me if I did. In the Summer of 2018, He started wearing all White, had a White Bandana on his forehead, And there would be some times when he would be on and off again, Then September of 2018. He threatened somebody else and had the cops called on him. I saw him arrested by the police, I saw his mugshots years later. He was arrested 5 times for trespassing, assault, disturbing the peace and obstruction of justice. That day when I saw him get locked up. I thought to myself "Well somebody damn sure put him in his place". I've seen people arrested in my school like Teenagers and also when there would be a high chase or if someone was pulled over for stuff like that. I could see him beg and plead, Then 2019. I saw him again at Starbucks, he threatened an old dude who tried to give him food. That could've been my opportunity to not be afraid and call him out but I just let it go. All the times I wanted to hold back to fight him. I could've been in jail myself, but I let it go. That's the last time I saw him. I saw him numerous times before the pandemic in 2020 and that was it. I don't know where he could be, for all I know he could be locked up, in a psychiatric hospital, or maybe he moved out for good. But let's just say that day when I was threatened by him in December of 2017. It was a bad experience for me. I've had Bad Experiences like High School when a girlfriend broke up with me and I was depressed for 2 months, but this was fear & anger when he said that to me. Do I still hold that grudge?, Yes I do. But Do I wish him the best if he's still around?. Sure do. But you don't wanna make me angry. That Homeless person made me angry, feared and bitter. That's the crazy thing. Crazy ones usually don't do enough to merit a stiff sentence, so they go back to the streets. I'm pretty sure she got killed by a homeless guy. During Covid, a lot of Asians got hurt by a few crazy homeless people www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-08-02/ucla-student-brianna-kupfer-stabbed-26-times-autopsy-showsI see that you live in Virginia. Does he live near where you live or work? Crazy you've seen him so many times. They usually go away after a bit. One of my bar pals gave cigarettes to a homeless guy, who then snatched the pack from his jeans. They got into a huge brawl. Homeless guy ended up with a golfball-sized black eye. Cops never called him back to press charges. He only wanted to because a guy like that so unhinged could really hurt someone, even a kid, who isn't as skilled as defending themselves. Said the guy stuck rotten too and had on flip flops, as if he just got released from a mental institution Nope like I said I haven't seen him in 2 years. |
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Post by saintegenevieve on Dec 6, 2022 16:48:28 GMT -5
I wish I had more good stories but most of the homeless here are also alcoholics. One goes the hospital everyday so he can get food and relax in a bed. I’ve never helped them but I do feel a bit bad for them. I might have brought this up already. Don't know. I'm mentally busy (in a not great way) today. Saddest thing I saw this year was when I went to the liquor store at 2 PM or so to get cigarettes. Cashier just sold booze to an Asian lady digging for charge. She had to be in her '60s, though it's hard to say because alcohol ages people wildly. She stumbled outside dead in the afternoon drinking her beer. I felt compelled to do the Sign of the Cross. It was that sad. I'm pretty cool with giving money to whomever if they're homeless, even if they might use it to get a fix. Addicts aren't bad people (usually) in my experience. Just screwed up people with a habit. But I could never, in good conscience, give money to an alcoholic like her. She was a dying woman. You could see it. |
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Post by saintegenevieve on Dec 6, 2022 16:53:23 GMT -5
I worked as a staff member for one of the biggest homeless resource agencies in Maryland. The year before that I was a volunteer. I left the place to do more in field volunteer work and did so for three years with my favorite things being bagged lunch food drives and delivery and helping found a church ministry where men and women could come once a week to get a hot meal and shower. The clients were very kind to me, made me out to be a celebrity and often would only come to me for assistance even if doing mail checks. I had four people who became murderers so you see the worst in people sometimes. The mental health and drug or alcohol issues causes guys to get in fights, sometimes both have weapons or one guy hits someone from behind and they die. It's very sad. That happened after I was heavily involved and I got pretty burned out just from seeing the heartache of people's lives and some close to me dying from their addictions. A friend of mine from work is a monthly lunch volunteer through her church, at the resource center I used to work. It's nice getting to go back because my time there was not the best. Not anyone's fault but mine. I wanted to do more and wouldn't follow the rules/guidelines. I proudly say I was the youngest employee they ever had at 25 but I wad too young to realize I needed to follow the rules. I loved and still love the guests of the center and shelter (at churches). Out of hundreds of people I saw, sometimes 60 or more per day, I only had problems with maybe two people. Even as the youngest employee and being very small (5'3") I got a ton of respect from the men and women. I gave it to them right back if not before they gave it to me. That's an awesome account. It is hard to see people ruin their lives. One failing of mine is I don't have the stomach for that. I can't get that close to people. My husband gets eaten alive by his job. I read recently about Padre Pio getting rocked a lot during Confession. It's hard to carry someone's wounds on your sleeve. I just don't have that in me. I used to hear my brother hurl dry in the toilet from drinking too much alcohol. He was about 10 feet from me. I legit hate him but that was hard to watch. He would never accept my help anyway |
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 6, 2022 23:04:40 GMT -5
That's an awesome account. It is hard to see people ruin their lives. One failing of mine is I don't have the stomach for that. I can't get that close to people. My husband gets eaten alive by his job. I read recently about Padre Pio getting rocked a lot during Confession. It's hard to carry someone's wounds on your sleeve. I just don't have that in me. I used to hear my brother hurl dry in the toilet from drinking too much alcohol. He was about 10 feet from me. I legit hate him but that was hard to watch. He would never accept my help anyway I was young at the time and thought I could change the world. I invested so much of myself into going out in to the field to give out clothes or food or some kind words, I rarely did anything else but that and part time job in retail. I can't recall really watching much TV, I didn't have any major or even minor hobbies. I didn't go on vacations and most "friends" were people I worked with or homeless people. I do recall I went on two weekend trips during the time (wrestling related) and once I was starting to get burned out things were luckily picking back up in my wrestling hobby. I quit volunteering cold turkey, said I wasn't coming back, but it had been boiling for probably a year with the deaths. The deaths remind me of what Raven said about drug addicts. He said it isn't the one that is a hardcore addict that dies, it's the one who is in recovery and then goes on a binge. Most of the people who died from overdose (drugs, alcohol) were people who actually helped volunteer at the resource centers, they do that a few months, then leave and get high again, then get clean and come back but then they did so much and I guess their bodies had been used to not doing it, that it was fatal. We also had several clients die from being hit by cars. These were guys who lived on the streets and when it's dark and the people can't see them they got killed. Probably slightly less than 10 IIRC. One was even suspected of lying in the street waiting to be run over and die. Some things were cool and one of the really cool things was reading the newspaper articles or being involved in them in some way since homelessness in our area was always such a hot topic. We were having our fundraiser yard sale and I got a write up in a newspaper. I got interviewed and the lady did an awesome job. Our local paper used to have so many stories on homelessness. Most would be "their just like us, just on hard times" then something bad would happen like a murder and it would go to "they are not like us." I worked on a research and interviews with my clients for a major writer after sending him a lengthy message in disagreement with what he wrote. He got in touch wanting to do a definitive article on homelessness. Unfortunately with so many citing their reasons as addiction the article fell flat and was pretty disappointing to me. But it was a cool experience. I was probably too young to know how cool it was. One of our local writers called me for a story but I was working, it was well before "texts" too but after reading the article I sent in a letter to the editor, she got in touch to thank me and I was so impressed by her that all these years later I still get in touch on occasion for advice, we still discuss her stories and I would say her articles are the best I've read. In all I did 5 total years volunteering and staff work (14 months) but it seemed like a 20 year career. |
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Post by screech on Dec 7, 2022 19:31:59 GMT -5
i wonder if canada will offer euthanasia to the homeless population
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Post by jason1980s on Dec 10, 2022 23:44:42 GMT -5
I am currently in the process of organizing a bagged lunch donation drive for Christmas week distribution. I will be at one shelter Christmas eve and day but donations will be given the Thursday prior. I am super excited about this.
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Post by saintegenevieve on Dec 12, 2022 0:27:14 GMT -5
i wonder if canada will offer euthanasia to the homeless population They already are. And in a normal society, that would be an act of war. If you support something like that, you're a low order human and aggrieved to no end |
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Post by saintegenevieve on Dec 12, 2022 0:34:04 GMT -5
I am currently in the process of organizing a bagged lunch donation drive for Christmas week distribution. I will be at one shelter Christmas eve and day but donations will be given the Thursday prior. I am super excited about this. That's great! Just try to do something every month if you don't already. It's unlikely that I'll do much for Christmas time. I did meet a kid with mental deficiency issues. I don't know what word to call that other than a highly charged, politically incorrect word. I left the 7/11 with my cigarettes. He was trying to ride the scooter. No big deal. I wish he could have riden it if he could have been safe doing it, but he didn't have a cell We talked for about 5 minutes. He smelled really bad - one of the worst scents a human can have - but that wasn't his fault. I gave him 5 cigarettes. I locked the scooter before he could take it. I couldn't risk him getting hurt, and if my phone didn't shut off the thing over the distance, I don't know if those things have an internal alarm where cops might beat the crap out of him because he's homeless, smells bad, is slow, and black. Kind of person a lot of cops like to bully. Had a great experience at the end of the day. Just some mysticism. It's the kind of stuff I won't discuss here since a lot of people work from the supposition that God isn't real Hope you have a great Christmas |
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Post by saintegenevieve on Dec 12, 2022 1:03:55 GMT -5
That's an awesome account. It is hard to see people ruin their lives. One failing of mine is I don't have the stomach for that. I can't get that close to people. My husband gets eaten alive by his job. I read recently about Padre Pio getting rocked a lot during Confession. It's hard to carry someone's wounds on your sleeve. I just don't have that in me. I used to hear my brother hurl dry in the toilet from drinking too much alcohol. He was about 10 feet from me. I legit hate him but that was hard to watch. He would never accept my help anyway I was young at the time and thought I could change the world. I invested so much of myself into going out in to the field to give out clothes or food or some kind words, I rarely did anything else but that and part time job in retail. I can't recall really watching much TV, I didn't have any major or even minor hobbies. I didn't go on vacations and most "friends" were people I worked with or homeless people. I do recall I went on two weekend trips during the time (wrestling related) and once I was starting to get burned out things were luckily picking back up in my wrestling hobby. I quit volunteering cold turkey, said I wasn't coming back, but it had been boiling for probably a year with the deaths. The deaths remind me of what Raven said about drug addicts. He said it isn't the one that is a hardcore addict that dies, it's the one who is in recovery and then goes on a binge. Most of the people who died from overdose (drugs, alcohol) were people who actually helped volunteer at the resource centers, they do that a few months, then leave and get high again, then get clean and come back but then they did so much and I guess their bodies had been used to not doing it, that it was fatal. We also had several clients die from being hit by cars. These were guys who lived on the streets and when it's dark and the people can't see them they got killed. Probably slightly less than 10 IIRC. One was even suspected of lying in the street waiting to be run over and die. Some things were cool and one of the really cool things was reading the newspaper articles or being involved in them in some way since homelessness in our area was always such a hot topic. We were having our fundraiser yard sale and I got a write up in a newspaper. I got interviewed and the lady did an awesome job. Our local paper used to have so many stories on homelessness. Most would be "their just like us, just on hard times" then something bad would happen like a murder and it would go to "they are not like us." I worked on a research and interviews with my clients for a major writer after sending him a lengthy message in disagreement with what he wrote. He got in touch wanting to do a definitive article on homelessness. Unfortunately with so many citing their reasons as addiction the article fell flat and was pretty disappointing to me. But it was a cool experience. I was probably too young to know how cool it was. One of our local writers called me for a story but I was working, it was well before "texts" too but after reading the article I sent in a letter to the editor, she got in touch to thank me and I was so impressed by her that all these years later I still get in touch on occasion for advice, we still discuss her stories and I would say her articles are the best I've read. In all I did 5 total years volunteering and staff work (14 months) but it seemed like a 20 year career. That's quite the account. It's hard to tackle human suffering on that level. The only time I ever cried in therapy when recounting some really dark stuff was this crackhead who was involved in trafficking me. He was a pretty nice guy, actually, other than his addiction. Career criminal. Maybe he was just charming. I tracked him for about 15 years. Messaged him one day after he got out of prison. He told me everything to his credit. But he did snap at me when I told him that what he did nearly made me commit suicide. Because of that, I delayed paying him the bribe that I offered. Guess what? He died 6 months later... I found out that he did about a year later when I was going through death records. He told me that he had heart surgery and in that one conversation we had that he was still smoking crack. I woke up my husband at 3 AM. The guilt ate me alive. Yes, he did horrible stuff. He didn't apologize. What started as very conversational, he went super snappy out of nowhere. He was legit scary So why did I cry? I don't know. He was from the peripheral part of the county: very rural, trailers, mom didn't seem to care about him. I went through a yearbook from 1983 and saw his picture. He was the only kid wearing a tank top... I guess I'm thinking that material deprivation made him very mean and mercenary A few months ago, I bumped into his whole entire record. Never knew he was arrested so often. Had a few serious charges. I guess I found out that he was legit violent. Seemed like he would drift from one to the other, fleecing everyone along the way That was also partly why I stiffed him. He tried to get too close. Example: he would ask me to send pictures from town. Think about it this way: business addresses can be seen. You can in theory triangulate a location. If there's one thing I learned about speed junkies, they'll do anything for money. He thinks I have money. He's older. What's going to stop him? Maybe I got paranoid. Then he would text me every morning. I'm really not wanting to think about this stuff at 5 AM. Then he's telling me about his heart. Pulling on sympathy strings... except he really wasn't this time. I felt intense guilt for a few years after that. I mean, $100 is what to me? Maybe it would have been gone in one night if he went on a crack binge. Maybe the cigarettes would have given him some comfort. It was hard to swallow I never listened to Raven but he's right about that. You might be interested in this book: David Courtwright's Addicts Who Survived It's a great oral history of the War on Drugs that started in the 1910s targeting Ethnic Whites (Catholics) and Chinese. Blacks didn't live much in urban cities at the time. Alcohol fell under cocaine and heroin. So it's now the 70s. These people are old, some close to death. They all get interviewed about their lives. Commonality: they all managed their addictions, didn't engage in other drugs at the same time (booze and heroin, for example), and they kept clean. It's definitely a social history worth reading Big problem nowadays is people can't reimagine society. Before the War on Drugs, which greatly emboldened the administrative state that conservatives like Clarence Thomas criticize (though I think conservatives are schizo about that topic), doctors did maintenance policy. Pharmacies delivered drugs to you. After a hundred years of this war, addiction rates are slightly worse than back then (statistically negligible difference) That should make us wonder why we prop up administrative apparatuses that only serve to make careers and to shadow US foreign policy. Everywhere the US has fought since has been followed by the drug czars telling the public about how drugs come from whatever enemy state. Consider that the Bush Administration at one point had PSAs be ran claiming that the purchase of marijuana helps fund the Taliban. It was so goofy and so poorly received that the ads must have gotten pulled pretty soon after. |
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Post by ¡Twist Of 45 and 47! on Dec 12, 2022 6:32:37 GMT -5
One hustled me out of $20 while wandering down Venice Beach. Its only a positive four years later.
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Post by JC Motors on Dec 13, 2022 7:32:41 GMT -5
Back when I worked at Walmart, they hired a homeless lady to clean the bathrooms. She was really creepy. She would stare at her hands the whole time. Anyway Walmart was paying for her Hotel room. She got fired for cursing out a customer who went to use the bathroom when she was cleaning it.
Every so often I venture out to the one Dollar General and this lady is standing outside asking for spare change. The more I think about it, that might be the lady that was hired at Walmart to clean the bathrooms
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Post by kinnikuman on Dec 13, 2022 11:59:24 GMT -5
I live in NYC. Any "positive experience" I've had with the homeless is due to entertainment. The guy who smoked crack next to me on the train, the man arguing with his invisible wife over taking his last cigarette, the real life comedian who dresses like a homeless person and films his begging scenes, the singers, the one who dresses like Hillbilly Jim who crapped his pants on the train, the ones that intentionally block steps by laying down, their entire world built into decked out grocery carts, the poop thrower, the yellers, the angry yellers, and of course ... the very angry yellers. #justanotherday
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Dec 13, 2022 12:23:49 GMT -5
I wouldn’t say this is a positive experience it but it was entertaining…
Back in 2010-2012 I was living in Houston. I was leaving Lowe’s one day and I was sitting at the red light waiting to turn. Homeless man came up and asked for some money.. I was young and had a pocket full of money at the time so I gave him some cash. He thanked me and went back to his standing spot.
The light turned green and as I started to go he acted like he was going to step out in front of my truck. So I stopped and so did he.. I went to proceed forward again and he just stepped out in front of me and I bumped him.. knocked him about a good foot or so forward.. I froze and had no idea what to do.. he didn’t even look at me and just kept on his way.
I sat there for a few seconds looking around at everyone and debated on what I should do. A man was in his vehicle adjacent to me and he just waved me on as he was laughing.
I drove off and that was that.
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