Over the weekend, I tried weeding through Reddit, but at this point, days later, it was buried deeper than the number of pages I was willing to scroll through (plus I got distracted with reading all the new posts…). I searched some key words, but I had practically nothing other than the company name and all it pulled up was either under business categories or really old. I did a similar Google search for the applicable time frame, but ‘social media sex insurance’ doesn’t exactly inspire a lot of good/relevant results.
I did find an article about a homeless couple that was arrested for copulating in a parking lot in the flatbed of their truck. Not a very interesting story in and of itself, but I have to say, that’s a pretty bold move!
I gave up… fast forward a few days and I’m browsing through Reddit on my walk to the cafeteria and see a post asking for people to share what’s on their ‘fuck-et’ lists. Ah yes, Reddit, you can be the essence of the degradation of society. For some reason, my mind jumped back to that homeless couple and of all things for me to think of was, ‘if a person has a vehicle, are they really homeless?’
True, a car does not have a physical/postal address, but being homeless with a car would be phenomenally so much better than without that I think it should qualify as a whole other level. Guaranteed shelter over your head, a square of the world to call your own, the ability to keep more possessions than you can carry, and having a sense of safety. The final but ultimate distinction, in my opinion, is having reasonably unlimited access to rest stop bathrooms, not just to use toilets, but water and soap, and big trucker stops have showers.
So, what is on the level of truly being homeless? I think the most common mental image is sleeping on the street of a city alley with every of your worldly possessions in a garbage bag that is also your pillow. Eh, at that point, I would much rather roll like Christopher McCandless, though I’d make my down to a temperate part of the country, and disappear into the forest to fend for myself.
