Homeless

Do you ever wonder what it would be like to be homeless?  I don’t know why, but this question often weighs on my mind.  If I am driving and I see an empty field or woods, I wonder if there are people hiding in there.  I don’t live in an area full of homeless people or anything, I just wonder what their life is like.  I look out the window and think to myself, “If I were homeless where would I be standing?”  I have no idea why I think about this all the time.  Never have I been homeless, or even close.  

When I was a teenager, I often drove to areas where I would see homeless people standing on the side of the road.  I worked in Dallas at a summer job.  I would exit the highway and see the same man standing there every day.  One day I went through the drive-through at McDonalds, and bought him a breakfast meal.  He seemed so excited, although now as an adult I am sure he wasn’t that thrilled and would have been more happy with money.  I also passed a woman once.  She was standing on the corner barefoot.  I looked at the seat next to me, where I had my workout tennis shoes laying there.  I picked them up, rolled down my window and handed them to her.  Of course she probably had her puma’s on the front seat of her escalade that was parked around the corner...but at 16, I didn’t know that.  I also would give these people cans of vegetables.  As an adult, I laugh at how naive I was.

Think about this.  You pick a busy corner to stand on, starting at 8 in the morning.  That light changes 3 times every ten minutes.  You probably get an average of one sucker a light.  You probably get an average of 2 bucks.  That is thirty-six dollars an hour!  That is a crap load of money.  If you work 8 hours a day that is $288 a day.  That is $1,440 a week (5 days), and $5,760 a month (4 weeks).  Of course you have your bad days, and you also have your good days.  At $5,760 a month, these people are banking!  After doing this math, I think I’m going to go digging in the shed for a pathetic piece of cardboard!!  See you later, I have some rolling in the dirt to do!