First time I went to SF, 1990 or 91 as I recall, I did a couple days volunteering in a soup kitchen in the Tenderloin. I asked one of the supervisors there about an odd thing I noticed: while most of the folks were what you'd expect homeless folks to look like, there were several who came through wearing fairly nice suits.
She explained to me that in SF it wasn't uncommon for people to have a full time job that paid for a basic place to live but only have enough left over to eat for 3 weeks. So, last week of the month, they'd see an influx of people who had jobs and homes even but who couldn't afford to eat right then. As a teenager from a town of 100,000 in Oregon, that rather blew my mind. Judah On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That woulda made sense. Nope, just a shirt and pants around his ankles > intently heading downhill. Pretty decent shirt too. > > > > On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:41 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> was he clutching a lamp and a remote control by any chance? >> >> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Gruss Gott <grussg...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> >>> I was just walking to Brenda's Soul Food kitchen and, as I was waiting at a >>> light to cross, a dude shuffled past me with his button-down shirt untucked. >>> It was untucked because his pants were around his ankles. And he just >>> shuffled on by. To the dry cleaners maybe? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:343112 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
