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Janson presents the "I feel like a dick" thread
Captain K
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personally, I always feel like a dick when I don't give hobos money. But there's so many of them in this goddamned town, and there's a free soup kitchen and shelter where they can eat three square meals a day and sleep inside a building. Why they gotta hit me up for "food" all the time?
Do you ever feel like a dick? If so, why?
Do you ever feel like a dick? If so, why?
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But I kind of stopped doing that awhile ago. You can see that shit coming from miles away, it's pretty easy to avoid it.
but for real you oughtta see portland
they are fucking everywhere
I'll write my post now.
Are they real hobos, like we have here? Hobos that are out of their fucking minds because they're veterans with debilitating PTSD or crackheads who can't function anymore or they have depressingly intense schizophrenia?
Or are they fake hobos, like in Seattle? The 19-year-old dropouts whose parents could support them in their million-dollar houses if they would just move back home, but instead they decided to live on the street and demand that I give them my coffee?
they have clipboards and I have never spoken to any of them, but they used to make me feel like a dick when they yell stuff at me like "don't you care about polar bears"
now, though, their emotional manipulation just annoys me and I walk around with my headphones on real loud
ehh
Because my bedroom is so small my main PC is in the communal study (my laptop, which I have in my bedroom, is fine for browsing the net but doesn't play DVDs and is old), and as a result of the study having little privacy and being quite cramped itself I'm rarely on my main PC any more. Oh, and most of my books and DVDs are in a communal hallway.
Anyway, lately my housemate's boyfriend's been staying over a lot and nowadays he's on my main PC more than I am. Using my comp most of the day/evening, watching my DVDs. Argh. I did originally say people could borrow my DVDs and it's not as if I'm using my PC most of the time so that is why I feel dickish about being so annoyed by it all.
IT'S TRUE BECAUSE IT RHYMES
they're actually sort of organized according to zones in this town -- where I work, for example, there are real frightening old-man grocery-cart hobos who shout things and pee themselves and OD in public places so cops have to stop the trains and haul away hobo bodies
downtown near the mall are the stinky runaway kids with piercings and tattoos and dogs who are trying to find themselves or whatever
That's what she said
Remember those kids across from the convention center?
It's the fucking crusty punky kids who piss me off. It's not like they're crazy, they have no excuse for being homeless.
Other than that they're pretty tame here.
Telling someone they can borrow your things when they need them is totally generous, but a lot of people just don't realize that it's not really an open invitation to monopolize your shit. That situation is so lame.
actually....
..nah
1. There are several ways for hobos to help themselves in the UK, including selling Big Issues. I'll buy a Big Issue, sure, because they're sold by people who are genuinely homeless, aren't buying drugs and are trying to get back up on their feet.
2. The non-Big Issue selling hobos around here are drug-dependent, persistent and irritatingly don't take no for an answer.
It is.... rarely my intention to hurt someone's feelings.
Toronto hobos are crazy, but maaaan Chinese hobos got them beat, ever seen a man with no fingers eat a mouse...fucked up
Yeah, that guy who walked up to them and produced a live rat out of his pocket, who then proceeded to give it to the girl who then let it eat her tongue for about two minutes, followed by exchanged looks of accomplishment. Were you there at the time or did I just tell you about it? I can't remember.
I chewed Sami out for trying to be nice to one in Seattle. I explained to him that it's okay to do that in Portland, but here in Seattle, we like to make it clear they're not welcome.
Mostly so that they move down to Portland. :P
But it's like, where do I draw the line? How do I say something? That's what I have to work out for myself and I haven't done that yet.
My housemate's comp is currently broken, hence why mine is being used at the moment. I can't complain too much about this because last year when mine was broken she lent me her laptop for two weeks, and I was really grateful.
You find some sand, then you draw a line in it. Then when they cross it...
They do not cross the line.
whew, sounds exciting
As irritating as the hobos in Chapel Hill are, I know we get off pretty easy. I just get tired of seeing the same ones all the time--the town's not that big, and the hobo-inhabitated area is really not that big, so it's the same 25 dudes all the time.
And she's like "Yeah, I was at the doctor's, I have mono"
Fuck
Well then what good are you.