Not Every Homeless Person Is Looking To Buy Liquor, Drugs, Or Cigarettes
And who am I to want to deprive them of these petty vices when at least for a moment it will take their minds off their condition.
I relocated with my girlfriend from Orlando to Los Angeles for job reasons. Talk about a culture shock. Los Angeles makes Orlando look like Ames but I have never been to Ames so who knows. Despite growing up in the suburbs I always prided myself or believed that I was committed to diversity. Now I get to live it.
Anyway, there's this homeless gentleman in a wheel chair at the corner of Seventh and Olive in front of a Subway. I give him a dollar .I would like to give more but my gf and I were almost destroyed by the Great Recession and are trying to rebuild our lives. I have over a dozen residences in the past three years or so. He asks me if I can go on to Subway and get him in a lemonade. It's lunch time and the place is packed. So, I go out and tell him I will go to 7-11. I buy him a huge lemonade for 99 cents and some peanuts.
I have lived in Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, and now L A . All three cities have homeless populations but in L A it seem particularly acute. I have seen them in Beverly Hills, (across the street from the famous or infamous Beverly Hilton), in Koreatown, in downtown, and in Sherman Oaks, and on the subway.
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