d) call the credit card company's toll-free number listed on the card to report you found someone's card and would like to return it. what's wrong with folks these days? geez!

/sarcasm...you're homeless, use it if it hasn't been cancelled! worst that can happen is jail...then you'd have a roof over your head and 3 meals a day. and a shower.

If you're a bum, you still probably had food and booze recently, but pedicures are rare events.

Makes sense. One of the biggest problems homeless people face is keeping their feet healthy. You know that stinky homeless guy on the train? What you're smelling is 87% feet. Clean shoes and socks are treasures.

bukketmaster: If you're a bum, you still probably had food and booze recently, but pedicures are rare events.

truth! i'm the only person working in a family of 4, so basically have just enough to get groceries and pay the bills (not complaining in the least...many of the bills are not exactly must haves) but we do have food and booze. now, the occasional massage, on the other hand, that's birthday-card-money spending there!

It was declined twice and he stuck around for the cops? Is he dumb?

cowgirl toffee: bungle_jr: ...

/sarcasm...you're homeless, use it if it hasn't been cancelled! worst that can happen is jail...then you'd have a roof over your head and 3 meals a day. and a shower.

Yes, but do they have pedicures?

don't know, i've never been to jail

Being homeless is a lifestyle choice.

I'm thinkin Hobo Pedicure would be a great name for a punkgrass band

I never thought I'd say this, but toenail trifecta in play?

probesport: Being homeless is a lifestyle choice.

while i assume you're being sarcastic in some manner, it actually IS a lifestyle CHOICE for some...probably an extremely small percentage of the homeless, but there are some who have been known to choose homelessness

cowgirl toffee: bungle_jr: cowgirl toffee: bungle_jr: ...

/sarcasm...you're homeless, use it if it hasn't been cancelled! worst that can happen is jail...then you'd have a roof over your head and 3 meals a day. and a shower.

Yes, but do they have pedicures?

don't know, i've never been to jail

If they don't give jail house pedicures, I don't want to go to jail.

i'd rather have a jailhouse pedi than a prison tat

Troutman told deputies he was homeless.

But not for long

that is so cool this time of year--finding places for people to live that are homeless.

you should all be so blessed as to do good deeds like this--really makes my heart warm

probesport: Being homeless is a lifestyle choice.

the hell it is. some people are born homeless. sure they have an awkward period of homefullness beforehand, but they eventually come out of the closet.

house, come out of the house.

d) use it to get a haircut, a hotel room, a nice suit, and a taxi service to take you job hunting. Because the homeless are just decent folks who were forced into poverty through someone else's bad decisions.

"I'm sorry, I believe in good grooming!"

Maybe this was step 1 of his overall plan to clean up and get a job.

I can't believe he waited around for the police to show up.

Why not, what did he have to lose? A shopping cart of old clothes? Sleeping on a cold street?

The Irresponsible Captain: Why not, what did he have to lose? A shopping cart of old clothes? Sleeping on a cold street?

Dammit, now John Hodgman has to recored 701 hobo names

/or maybe he doesn't, may already be in there

Gotta look good for that big interview

He looks like the Heat Mieser

A lot of my freinds are or were homeless. My roommate was homeless until about five months ago. A cop found him trying to hobble across a highway bridge, The cop drove him to the Buffalo City Mission, gave him $20 and told him to stay there till his feet healed. While there, he got a job (a crappy one I admit), saved up and we got an apartment together, He just got a better job. He's pretty independent and likes a clean apartment. The other guys are kind of surprised that he was homeless without having a drug & alcohol problem.

I have freinds in the City Mission and a Salvation Army Adult Rehabilitation Facility. Both give a person a place to stay till they get on their feet. It's not to pleasant living that close to 100 guys with problems, but if it was pleasant, they wouldn't leave.

The Sally gives you a work therapy job & forces you to work on improving yourself. They actually force guys to get GED's. Once you 'graduate' you can stay there for a while till you get a place to move into.

Another freind of mine is a Franciscan monk who travels the country working in missions. He actually runs in to guys he met in California missions in the Buffalo mission.

Most of 'em I met have drug/alcohol/ and or mental illness problems.

This sort of financial reasoning must've been the secret of his current level of success.

(DNRTFA)

Am also not surprised about the pedicure. They're not savages, they just don't have a place of their own to be indoors.

/I like the homeless james bond videos Link (new window)

They prefer Link (new window)

My mom gets a manicure and pedicure because she can't feel one of her legs and has tremors. It costs ten dollars and half of that is the tip.

Sorry for bursting your bubble, subby.

TheSpaceAdmiral: How panhandlers use free credit cards

Thank you for that link.

There is a group in my area that helps folks out. Talbot county Interfaith (shelter)?

I will forward this to the lady in charge to give her a boost in moral.

I am a "housing insecure" person.
My new term for being (not really homeless as I sleep in my shop) is "those who shower at the Y"

My drug dealer stopped taking credit cards when they raised the fees on him. Now he demands Isle of Wight bearer bonds.

Eh, what the hell...it's a treat.

But get a mani, too; your fingers are gross!

bungle_jr: d) call the credit card company's toll-free number listed on the card to report you found someone's card and would like to return it. what's wrong with folks these days? geez!

/sarcasm...you're homeless, use it if it hasn't been cancelled! worst that can happen is jail...then you'd have a roof over your head and 3 meals a day. and a shower.

You forgot about the sex. The free, always available (whether you want it or not) sex.

I'd go with C, first two you really can't take with you.

When you think about it, of those three choices the one most homeless people actually need is probably C. So good jorb!

OBBN:
I am as far right wing as it gets, but even I know that there are many homeless because of circumstances beyond their control.

You are not remotely "as far right wing as it gets"...

"Uh, Professor? Is this a trick question? I mean, alcohol IS a drug. So do you mean booze as in one drug or do you mean drugs as in illegal drugs?"

"...Class, I'll make sure to scrawl the corrections to exam errors on this barely legible chalkboard. You have two hours, starting now."

kericr: bungle_jr: d) call the credit card company's toll-free number listed on the card to report you found someone's card and would like to return it. what's wrong with folks these days? geez!

/sarcasm...you're homeless, use it if it hasn't been cancelled! worst that can happen is jail...then you'd have a roof over your head and 3 meals a day. and a shower.

You forgot about the sex. The free, always available (whether you want it or not) sex.

funny, i actually thought about that AFTER i posted