Homeless?

That is homeless, actually. The first after school special I saw about homelessness was about this family who had to live in the car because they got evicted. And they would go to rest stops to shower. It was a tear jerker. Maybe cause I was 12. How did you bounce back?

 

This, like the vast majority of your posts doesn't count for anything. Nor will it register in the annals of Random Thoughts history.

 

As a homeless youth, I traveled these great United States for 15+ years, stopping only occasionally to live here or there. In one sense, it was a big hole in my life where I accomplished not the first thing. On the other hand, I met a lot of really cool people, and saw things, and learned things I would not have seen and learned otherwise. It was the great adventure of my life.

In later years, I went on to work with the homeless (around 14 years). Again, I met a lot of really cool people.

 

You should write a book. Seriously, this sounds much cooler than any life I've heard about.

 

Thanks. I've wanted to do just that for many years now. Just can't get the pieces to fall in that direction. Actually, when I travelled, I kept a kind of journal. I wrote what I could on napkins and tissue - but, alas - my story fell prey to more ugent demands.

 

Maybe start a journal here (it's a free feature) and try to piece every thing together one episode at a time. You never know...

 

You never know.

 

yes.
i have slept in parks, and i stayed in a pool shed in these apartments for like a week until i was found. luckily friends let me stay with them. i was never alone. i was always with this other homeless man & a runaway. they were really good to me & i love them. they are still two of my best friends, but one of them is in jail now. i lived off stealing & the free popcorn they gave out at ace hardware. haha there was also this middle age mexican dude who slammed heroin & he would let us all stay with him, but he was such a creep. i have some good memories & some really really bad ones but i dont think i would trade the good ones for anything. i am staying with friends now whom i love very much

 

Ever go to Boston Market and ask for the manager-then tell then you had a family meal the night before that was so bad? I would hit then up and walk out with a free family meal and eat it on the beach. Or hit the hotels that served free breakfast. As long as you LOOK like you belong there no one will ask.
The best was Ramdas have managers night on Weds and they have free beer.
Yes-it's dishonest but when you have not eaten in three days you would be surprised what you can think of that's better then walking into a 7/11 with a gun at 3 AM just to live another day.
To me it was all big companies and I thought they could handle whatever the cost was. Later when I was working and had money I sponsored meals at a soup kitchen that fed me.
I agree on the good memories-I met some of the most loving peopel in my travels who I am still friends with to this day.
My worst memory was being jummped by a gang of skin heads but they suffered more damage then I did since I had nothing to lose.
Glad you got community and friends who are kool. Peace

 

yes. 3 years. not by choice. slept in a different place most every night. carried a backpack. hitchhiked. never used a shelter or pan handled. had a couple jobs throughout it all. mostly didnt. taught myself some mandolin to eat. not too much fun, but i miss it. quite terrible actually. but i miss it. it was actaully about 10 days shy of 3 years. now i been working 18 months straight. i have a honda. 1995. i have 2 guitars 2 mandolins a banjo and a violin. some books. still need new shoes but im workin on it. still havent been able to gain wieight or regain my appetite though. still have some mental blocks from it that im workin out. i actually came out of my depression while i was homeless. about 28 months into it. that was kinda the hardest to deal with. no longer being depressed, but still being homeless, hungry, with 60 lbs. on my back and no where to go. but happy i wasnt depressed any more.

every day i hope i dont get fired from my job so i dont have to go back to it.
every day i hope i get fired so i can go back to it.
but im doin good. have dental insurance now but still havent fixed my teeth.
thats about it.

 

i went through my teens(15-18) where i was left home alone with my sister (4-7) and juggling work school and taking care of her while my mom worked 3 jobs. then when two months before my eighteenth birthday i moved down to florida with my father and we ended up broke cuz of his crackwhore girlfriend we still had a place to stay but i couldnt take it any more so what i did was i would go out during the day walk the streets meet up with some people that also live on the streets/motel and hangout get clean eat then go out and party at night or work at a nightclub as a barback or shotgirl. and if no one had a motel room that night i would gather my bookbag and blanket and pillow go back downtown climb the roof that we all slept at and go to sleep there for a couple hours. when i didnt have enough money for food or for whatever i did what i had to do (steal or ask for money) i remember one time i had no money and i hadnt eaten for a couple days and i had just gotten my period i went into a grocery store with my pants all blood soaked and had a manager walk right up to me and i told her my situation and she was more than happy to give me tampons and a free meal. i was so releived. oh and on the strip downtown there was a food place called papa johns and i knew most of the people there and i would go and eat mayonaise sandwiches with day old bread and a cup of water or if i had money i would get a real samich.

surprisingly that is the same place where i met my now fiance he helped me get off tjhe streets and get a decent job and now he and i have a 16 month old baby boy together and we are doing just fine.

 

ive been homeless , as they call it ....i guess im not at presant ...id say i was happier then ....but every moment spent in the usa ,,,,is hell wether you posess 10 cents or 10 million bucks....your in a nazi hell .