Thursday, October 26, 2023

A sign of the increasing (homelessness) problem in the college town that I now live in:

Like a month ago, my one (older) (Thai) coworker who’s a whiz at the phones tells me towards the end of the shift that when she came in like ten-to-five for the start of dinner shift, there was a(n older) (black) man peeing by the dumpster in the back alley just outside the restaurant back door.

. . .

(I ask her, and she’s never seen that in all the years working there, though once years ago she saw a[n older] [white] woman squat and pee in the bus shelter by a big box grocery store on the far side of town, while she was waiting there for the bus to come home after going shopping there.)

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