rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

You'll know it when you get there.
--Bob

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dennis2146 Loc: Eastern Idaho

Nice photo Bob. A bit dark until you look on download. I have spoken to many people in the same predicament from my same vantage point. Occasionally there was some help for the person, if they wanted it, but otherwise they generally just moved on to who knows where. It is sad there are many like this in our society today but sadder still that most are happy just where they are and do not want to make a change for the better.

Dennis

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

Thanks for taking a look and commenting, Dennis.
--Bob

SATS Loc: Belgium

It is a bit like lying on the floor to get drunk, there is a cretain satisfaction in knowing that whatever happens you cannot fall any further. What is a sad fact is that modern society is not geared to letting folks like this get back on their horse. The down but not out are lumped together with the down and want to stay out. I like to help where I can but I never give money because I know where that is likely to go but I have taken a few into cafes and bought them a meal and had funny looks off the serving staff as well. One thing I have found is that many of them want to show you their documents. It is all they have left to say they are a real person. Have you ever come across this one? I had one merchant seaman who showed me an official logbook of every ship he had ever worked on, there was a lot.

In the late 70's the BBC did a six part series called The Boys from the Black Stuff. They were road layers and the black stuff was tar Macadam. It was about a group of six Liverpool men, each episode was about one of them, living at the bottom level of Thatcher Britain. The episode everyone remembers was about a character called Yozzer Hughes. People called Hughes are often called Yozzer and H's at the beginning of words are always droped. First he lost his job, then his wife, then his kids and finally his house. He had so much drive he wouldn't give up but unfortunately not very much ability at anything. Desperate people do desperate things but he kept doing the wrong things and everybody felt for him. The point I am getting around to is that in the end, the only thing he had left was his name and he made sure everybody stressed the H and said it correctly. Sad times. The soap box is now clear for somebody else.

rmalarz Loc: Tempe, Arizona

SATS, fortunately, she's young. Hopefully, this was the last time she needed this lesson. Thanks for taking time to comment.
--Bob