Someone scolded my neighbor for feeding this homeless guy who’s been camped out at our building for about two weeks now.
“Don’t feed them they’ll never leave!”
My friends and I have this talk all the time. We know we’re not really helping homeless people with leftover pizza, and in Vegas who knows how they became homeless to begin with, plus every other homeless person on my street is super aggressive. Are we simply enablers? It gets cold, we give them blankets. They get hungry, we give them food. It’s not like homeless people are stray cats we can take in. Humans are far more expensive than stray cats.
I always wonder where the families are? Friends? Back in Santa Monica, CA, one night while at work, a regular customer, white, found out his sister, also white, who apparently had been homeless for many years, had just died. And my coworkers, Hispanic, said under their breaths, “If he knew she was homeless all this time why didn’t he help her?”
Wasn’t Madonna’s brother homeless also? How could a sibling of Madonna’s be homeless? Did he ask her for help and she told him to fuck off?
I would never allow a dear friend or family member to go hungry or be homeless. That’s just unacceptable to me. That said, I have a friend who’s family is eating him out of house and home. His brother is a lifelong drug user, in and out of jail or rehab my friend pays for, his parents are retired and broke, and his dad has cancer. And for the past (at least) seven years my friend has been supporting all of them rather than getting a wife, starting his own much wanted family, and saving for retirement. Taking care of your own, is one thing. Taking care of strange homeless people every day camped outside your home, that’s something else.
The way homeless people in my neighborhood get your attention is by asking you for the time. Because they have some place to be? But you check your cell phone anyway and tell the homeless person the time, to which they always sarcastically reply, “Yeah, nice cell phone. How much that cost you?” To make you feel bad for having a cell phone while they have a garbage bag of who knows what?
FYI, I’ve seen homeless people with cell phones.
Every time someone scolds, “Go feed a homeless person!” You know they’re scolding you to make themselves feel good, like recycling. Ever watch Penn and Teller’s BULLSHIT. Here’s a clip about recycling which any thoughtful person may have already figured out.
And another thing!
He’s just a sore what?
Loser
A sore what?
Loser!
A sore what??
LOSER
Actually I don’t think he’s sore so that just makes him a plain ol’ what?
LOSER!!!
He’s also put on some major weight which makes him a what?
FAT LOSER!!!!!
I don’t like picking on people’s weight. How toxic. No thanks. It’s just he’s constantly calling women fat, another lardass man calling women fat, so...
He’s a what?
FAT LOSER!!!!!
It’s fantastic the things I normalize. It’s a gift really.
Apparently something called the Super Bowl is this weekend. Yay Vegas!!! Money money money!!! I have no clue who’s playing in the Super Bowl. Don’t care.
Money money money!!!
Hey ladies!!! And gentlemen!!! Sorry didn’t mean to be sexist! Be sure to get your bouquets. 💐 💐
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