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myOtaku.com: satan665

Friday, November 19, 2004

Hobo Snake
I went to the store yesterday and got some bread and soup for dinner with my wife, and on the way back out was getting jazzed up about sneaking over to the Gamecrazy (dumb name) across the parking lot for Metal gear Solid 3.
Me: "I got the itch, Machie (nickname [May-chee])" *scratches beard and head*
Wife: "What some kind of rash?"
Me: "No! the itch to go get MGS3"
Greatest wife ever: "Alright lets go over there."

So right then we were stopped by a couple in their 20's who looked really sad and spoke super softly. He really spoke super quiet but after making him repeat himself a couple of times he said he and his wife was trying to get to florence and had run out of gas. Rachael gave him a dollar and I gave him $5. If gas prices weren't $2 a gallon that might have actually gotten them there. I don't really know if I believe them, but at least they were gone when I got out of the game store so maybe they actually did go and get gas.

Around that same area they is fairly often a guy who stands at the corner with a sign saying he needs help to get his heart medicine. A few weeks ago a younger guy was yelling at him from across the street with a sign that says "fake". On my way back I saw the younger guy on the streetcorner where the heart meds guy was, holding his own please help sign.

There really is no way to judge who really needs help, but I usually stop for the kids my age that are begging, just cause they are very non-threatening (in Eugene) and I feel bad for them. They are probably just runaways, but I'm not really cash strapped so a couple of bucks isn't going to kill me. Not everyone in the US is as fortunate as us in school or has jobs, so I try to help in small ways like that. Its scary sometimes though because a lot of places have homeless people with mental health problems who really out to be in a hospital somewhere, but they lose funding with budget cuts and are just set loose.

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