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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:23:42 AM EDT
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One city or did you go from town to town?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:25:18 AM EDT
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Did you ever star in Bum Fights?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:25:31 AM EDT
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One city or did you go from town to town? I stayed in one metro area. I had friends my age that caught trains to seattle. We horsed around on trains, but never went anywhere on them. I wish I had. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:25:39 AM EDT
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Did you panhandle or attempt to find gainful employment? Best food you didn't pay for. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:25:42 AM EDT
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1. What taxpayer funded programs if any did you use?
2. Did you have a job? 3. How old were you and why were you homeless? |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:25:59 AM EDT
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Did you ever star in Bum Fights? No. 
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:26:31 AM EDT
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What precipitated this lifestyle?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:27:01 AM EDT
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ever "go down" for some food/shelter/drugs?
I ask because I hear it's pretty common among the homeless crowd, like just doing business or something, it's not sex. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:27:46 AM EDT
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tag
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:28:30 AM EDT
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Alcoholic or drugs?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:29:35 AM EDT
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How did you end up on the street?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:30:01 AM EDT
[#12]
Get any homeless pussy?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:31:23 AM EDT
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Get any homeless pussy? Eeeeew |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:31:46 AM EDT
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Did you panhandle or attempt to find gainful employment? Best food you didn't pay for. There were people who panhandled, called gutter punks. they dressed terribly, never showered, and made a living panhandeling. They'd get tons of money by holding signs that said "spare some cash for white trash". People gave them money quicker than someone who looked nice because they looked like they could really use it. I would ask people for a quarter to call my mom or something else stupid like that. So I pan handled, asked people for cigarettes (called squares at the time) and I worked jobs. I had a part time job I made about $80 a week at for a 4 month period I think. As far as the best food I didn't pay for, that was pretty much all of it, it was all good when you're hungry. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:34:56 AM EDT
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1. What taxpayer funded programs if any did you use? 2. Did you have a job? 3. How old were you and why were you homeless? I used what ever programs would get me anything. I got a certain agency to pay for an unlimited bus pass. I had part time fast food jobs now and then. The day I turned 16 I said fuck it, i'm not living at home any more. I didn't like the situation I was in there so i left. I was not abused. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:35:47 AM EDT
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Warm climate or cold climate?
East or West part of the US? I've never been able to understand why anyone that was truly homeless would stay in a city where the temps were freezing in winter. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:35:51 AM EDT
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How do you keep warm in the winter?
Any frostbite? What is the longest amount of time you went without knowing the date? |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:36:59 AM EDT
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What region of the US were you in? Did you have to contend with northern winters or south eastern rain etc?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:37:26 AM EDT
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What kind of stuff did you walk around with, if anything?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:38:03 AM EDT
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What precipitated this lifestyle? A home life I didn't like. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:42:40 AM EDT
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ever "go down" for some food/shelter/drugs? I ask because I hear it's pretty common among the homeless crowd, like just doing business or something, it's not sex. No, I was not gay for pay as they called it. I wasn't gay for pleasure either. One dude told me he got paid $50 and was given a straight porno mag while some dude sucked him. He was bragging. As far as the food/shelter sex exchange thing, it's very common. I never did it. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:46:06 AM EDT
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Alcoholic or drugs? I found that most people who were on the street were either mentally ill, alcoholics or drug addicts. I tried pretty much everything, nothing ever really did it for me. During my time on the streets I wasn't addicted to any drugs or alcohol. I did smoke cigarettes for a two year period. Mostly for something to do with my hands while I was walking. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:46:55 AM EDT
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How did you end up on the street? I grabbed my bike, rode to the city, and I was off! |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:47:20 AM EDT
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How different is your life today? Married, educated? Nice house, middle class?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:48:18 AM EDT
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Get any homeless pussy? Of course. There are girls/women on the street that are running from their own things at home. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:48:24 AM EDT
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Was this in Portland?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:48:58 AM EDT
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Ever thought about writing a book?
I'd buy it, as long as it was honestly told. ––Eight_Ring |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:49:01 AM EDT
[#28]
You ever think about writing a book about your experience?
ETA. Damn, beat by 3 seconds  |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:49:53 AM EDT
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What did you do to get out of that situation?
Did the experience alter you views at all? Why did you stay on the street for years? Enjoyed it? Took a while to get on your feet? Not bashing just wondering and if your situation has improved good on you. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:50:38 AM EDT
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Warm climate or cold climate? East or West part of the US? I've never been able to understand why anyone that was truly homeless would stay in a city where the temps were freezing in winter. Upper midwest. There are tons of churches and programs around in the city that will put people up at night and kick them out in the morning. I think I was told that the winter weens the weak and they find other places to be other than homeless. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:52:16 AM EDT
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As a parent, I'd be going fookin' crazy if my son did that. Quoted:
How did you end up on the street? I grabbed my bike, rode to the city, and I was off! 
In hindsight were your reasons valid? Would you do it again? |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:55:09 AM EDT
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How do you keep warm in the winter? Any frostbite? What is the longest amount of time you went without knowing the date? I stayed in shelters for some of the time. I'd have multiple layers on everything and a bigass coat. I knew a guy who had a squat (it was a string of houses that had no one living in them, maybe for development purposes?) and he let me stay there in the middle of winter. there was no power going to the building. So I'd just sleep in my clothes and put the one blanket on me and I was good. ETA i think i always knew the date. no frostbite. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:56:11 AM EDT
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How did you get off the streets? How hard was it? What do you do now?
And I agree with the book idea. I would buy it. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 6:58:07 AM EDT
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How do you keep warm in the winter? Any frostbite? What is the longest amount of time you went without knowing the date? I stayed in shelters for some of the time. I'd have multiple layers on everything and a bigass coat. I knew a guy who had a squat (it was a string of houses that had no one living in them, maybe for development purposes?) and he let me stay there in the middle of winter. there was no power going to the building. So I'd just sleep in my clothes and put the one blanket on me and I was good. I lived like that once, trying to finish a novel. I wrote until the toilet froze, then came down and got a shit job. Think about writing it all down, if you haven't done so already.. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:01:00 AM EDT
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There was a rapper, I think his name is Nas (spelling??), who went and lived on the streets in CA for a short period of time. Really opened my eyes up to the whole homeless situation in America.
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:02:36 AM EDT
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You're not SteyrAUG, are you
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:05:07 AM EDT
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What got you off the streets?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:07:24 AM EDT
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What kind of stuff did you walk around with, if anything? That's the biggest problem being "homeless". Where to put your stuff. I'd just have a backpack with the stuff I'd need for the day. You either need to find a place that will let you store your stuff there (there was a church or two that gave you a locker) or stash it where you'd think no one would steal it. Half the time, it was gone when you came back if you tried hiding it. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:07:30 AM EDT
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How did you get out of the life??
Im somewhat assuming since youre posting on arfcom, that your not homeless . |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:07:34 AM EDT
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What was your parent's financial situation?
What socioeconomic group would you say you belonged to growing up? |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:09:04 AM EDT
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In my younger days I was "homeless" on the street. I thought I might start a thread for anyone to ask me anything. I slept in the most fucked up places ie on roofs, under train bridges, behind bushes on rocks, on the city bus, salvation army etc. I also ate at homeless kitchens both for youth and adults. I can tell you about crackheads, ways people robbed, squatting (sleeping in abandoned buildings), anything I knew about. Go. is it ok to eat fish, because they dont have any feelings? |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:10:40 AM EDT
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How often did you shower? How did that work? Did you smell much?
What did you do all day for all those years? And don't say "try to survive". Given what you know now, would you have made the same choices? |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:13:31 AM EDT
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How different is your life today? Married, educated? Nice house, middle class? I've been with the same woman for almost 15 years now, I am married, many kids, I live in a nice middle class neighborhood where most the houses were built in the sixties. My wife and I have made about $100k per year the past 5 years. We're both high school dropouts. We both found jobs that didn't require college. My life is completely different than it was then. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:14:37 AM EDT
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Was this in Portland? No, the midwest. I'd have loved to go to portland. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:18:14 AM EDT
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Ever thought about writing a book? I'd buy it, as long as it was honestly told. ––Eight_Ring I've thought about filling a notebook with my time on the street for my kids. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:18:26 AM EDT
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Do you talk to your parents today?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:19:43 AM EDT
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Did you ever dive into a dumpster?
What do you do for a living now? |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:28:01 AM EDT
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What did you do to get out of that situation? Did the experience alter you views at all? Why did you stay on the street for years? Enjoyed it? Took a while to get on your feet? Not bashing just wondering and if your situation has improved good on you. I knew about a job that I had to be 18 to get and got it (i think it was $10.50 an hour to start). There was a few programs out there that helped kids get apartments. I had a program pay for my apartment for a few months, I had two other street people I knew who had jobs pay me $200 a month each at the time, and that was the end of being "homeless". I did enjoy my time on the street. Go where ever you want, whenever you want, no responsibilities, everything pretty much given to you, you don't have to work for anything really. That was when I was under 18. I think there are more programs that help kids like that than adults. I used every program I could find while on the street. I would say it all enabled me. |
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:29:17 AM EDT
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Can you describe the process/series of events of pulling yourself up out of the gutter? What was that first step job and how did you make it lead to the next?
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Posted: 10/8/2011 7:30:17 AM EDT
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As a parent, I'd be going fookin' crazy if my son did that. Quoted:
How did you end up on the street? I grabbed my bike, rode to the city, and I was off!
In hindsight were your reasons valid? Would you do it again? Yeah, my mom was pretty upset, I didn't talk to her for a week I think. I probably wouldn't do it again if given the chance, but it was a learning experience. |
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