This city is full of chronic shoppers. They don’t even have homes, they just have shopping carts they push from sale to sale. This guy is sleeping in front of the Sleep Train, they are having a spring cleaning sale starting today when they open. He’s first in line.
okay, so that isn’t true. He’s not a chronic shopper, but he is a hoarder. So many homeless people are. I talked to one guy, told him his cart was like a pack mule. He is mining the hills of San Francisco, looking in the dark hollows of dumpsters and garbage cans.
Do homeless people know about the internet?
Comment by Lyle_s — April 6, 2008 @ 1:38 pm
I don’t know if the guys who sell stuff they steal out of cars are homeless, but I hear them talking about ebay. (there is a corner on 16th and Mission where they have a “yard sale” every night on the sidewalk. It is mix cd’s, books, shirts, pens and pencils, all the stuff you’d find if you cleaned out someone’s car.)
Comment by Rolston — April 6, 2008 @ 11:27 pm