Have you ever been Homeless ?

Verisure said:
One of the things that worried me about trying to ride the rail was not knowing where the thing was going. Do you just hop in without knowing?
Click to expand...
Years ago I was driving through a very isolated part of the Nevada desert, on one of those roads where you only see another car maybe once an hour. Saw a hitchhiker at least 20 miles from the nearest intersection, further from any kind of house or town. I picked him up, turned out he had been riding a train that stopped in the middle of nowhere and he was thrown off. Not sure if he would have made it had I not picked him up.

That was in my youth, not sure I would be brave enough to pickup such a hitchhiker today... hope I would.
 
HoneyNut said:
I was homeless for a couple days once, but a series of very kind strangers gave me money, found homes for the rescued puppies I was lugging around in a box, gave me a bed and food, connected me with a man who located someone whose kids I could nominally babysit (one was old enough to babysit the others which had been the family's plan) for a month while the mom was out of the country, and subsequently the man found me a job and arranged for me to get a government subsidized apartment. And an agency gave me a starter set of bed, space heater, plate, one set of cutlery, etc.
I had to wash my laundry in a bucket for a while (probably just until I received some money from my parents) but everything worked out.
Click to expand...
Hmm, I washed my clothes in the bathtub, didn’t have a bucket, could not afford a bucket. The salivation army provided breakfast and dinner. I could never afford lunch. The Army provided three square meals, 😍.
 
Gary O' said:
Oddest event was walking between rails when one train was going south, and the other north.
Got dizzy
Had to sit down
Click to expand...
I can imagine it. I turn to stone when I'm waiting for a passenger train and an express freighter goes roaring through shaking the ground to the core.
 
Alligatorob said:
Years ago I was driving through a very isolated part of the Nevada desert, on one of those roads where you only see another car maybe once an hour. Saw a hitchhiker at least 20 miles from the nearest intersection, further from any kind of house or town. I picked him up, turned out he had been riding a train that stopped in the middle of nowhere and he was thrown off. Not sure if he would have made it had I not picked him up.

That was in my youth, not sure I would be brave enough to pickup such a hitchhiker today... hope I would.
Click to expand...
Jesus!
 
Verisure said:
I can imagine it. I turn to stone when I'm waiting for a passenger train and an express freighter goes roaring through shaking the ground to the core.
Click to expand...
Yeah, I get that.

The two trains weren't really going all that fast.
And there was plenty of room between them.
But, it was like I was getting sucked into a tornado.
Made my head spin.
Even had to close my eyes while sitting.
Otherwise that beer wouldn't've stayed down
 
Gary O' said:
Yeah, I get that.

The two trains weren't really going all that fast.
And there was plenty of room between them.
But, it was like I was getting sucked into a tornado.
Made my head spin.
Even had to close my eyes while sitting.
Otherwise that beer wouldn't've stayed down
Click to expand...
Don't they have "No Drinking" signs along the rails .... sort of like Burma Shave on the tarmac?
 
Alligatorob said:
Years ago I was driving through a very isolated part of the Nevada desert, on one of those roads where you only see another car maybe once an hour. Saw a hitchhiker at least 20 miles from the nearest intersection, further from any kind of house or town. I picked him up, turned out he had been riding a train that stopped in the middle of nowhere and he was thrown off. Not sure if he would have made it had I not picked him up.

That was in my youth, not sure I would be brave enough to pickup such a hitchhiker today... hope I would.
Click to expand...
Reminds me of a joke;

Picked up a hitchhiker

Seemed like a nice guy

After a few miles, he asked if I wasn't afraid he might be a serial killer

Told him the odds of two serial killers in the same car were highly unlikely
 
Gary O' said:
Reminds me of a joke;

Picked up a hitchhiker

Seemed like a nice guy

After a few miles, he asked if I wasn't afraid he might be a serial killer

Told him the odds of two serial killers in the same car were highly unlikely
Click to expand...
A true story:
I was once hitchhiking towards mexico and the guy who gave me a lift was bragging about how much money he made transporting grass from the border into the US. He said all he did was pick the stash in El Paso (where the weed had already been smuggled across the border) and he took it from there to points north. I sat quietly listening just nodding my head. After a while I guess he thought I didn't express enough admiration so he said, "I suppose you don't believe me, huh?" I told him that I believed him but in order to prove his claim, he grabbed the instrument panel and pulled it loose. Then he stuck his hand inside and to the right then pulled out a wad of cash and shook it in my face. I'm sure he was trying to entice me to work for him. Anyway, I told him he was crazy to show me all of that not knowing me at all. "I'm not worried," he repled, then stuck his hand back into the panel to the left and pulled out a loaded revolver.
 
Verisure said:
"I'm not worried," he repled, then stuck his hand back into the panel to the left and pulled out a loaded revolver.
Click to expand...
Yeah, that can get sticky.
Hate being unarmed when somebody is.
Also hate being shot at...or shot.
Rounds whizzing past yer skull is a bit unnerving
 
Gary O' said:
Yeah, that can get sticky.
Hate being unarmed when somebody is.
Also hate being shot at...or shot.
Rounds whizzing past yer skull is a bit unnerving
Click to expand...
I don't like guns. I don't want them and I don't want to see them. First of all, I am a war veteran, a soldier for 3 years. In addition to that (as a civilian) I've been under mortar attack, rocket attack, and shot at in Beirut and Rhodesia and have guns pointed at me in Tanzania (by the police), in Cambodia (by the Khmer Rouge), at a traffic light (in the US), and in someone's home (also in the US).

Guns? Melt the whole ****ing lot of them and make something nice instead.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Back
Top