"I was at a Starbucks today in San Francisco in the civic center area." STRIKE 1 & 2. " I was enjoying my latte" STRIKE 3 GET THE HELL OUTTA HERE!
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It makes me want to come up with a list of inner-loop hobos. I'm not sure we have equally identifiable characters. There's the Asian man who dresses in all black and reminds me of the character in Oldboy. There's the black man who is always walking with a pimp cane and wears a hat with wings. There's the deranged younger white man who rides his bicycle wearing Speedos and thongs. He loves fluorescent clothes. There's another man named Trinidad who has the largest hat collection in the world--but where does he store it? I don't have any poop flinging stories aside from working at the psych ward.
I told Mrs. B-Bob about that reddit thread, and then I get this call from her on her way home from work. Mrs. B-Bob: "Well, our train is stopped. The conductor said there's 'quite an issue' and it turns out that some homeless crazy man has erected his camp on the train tracks." Hundreds of people were delayed coming home from work so that this miserable crazy man can enjoy his freedoms. Of course, being San Francisco, dozens of passengers got out and gently offered to help him move his camp to another location.
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I'm guessing he has a long list of ex Starbucks lovers. Saw her at the counter and he saw a blank space and decided to write her name.... Damn Taylor Swift songs!!!
Not only was I confused by this, I was also confused as to why someone hadn't ran in and snatched that money. It looks like most of it is poo-free.
San Francisco downtown has become a haven to bums and druggies from all over the country. Driving through the streets at night, they bang on your car and yell at you to give them money. On more than one occasion, bums have entered restaurants and bars that I was in and grabbed others food or drinks from their table and started eating. What was shocking how people were standing around saying "Please stop that...Please" instead of throwing the guy out.
I used to live there and also stayed at the tenderloin. Not the best places to rep sf. The sad part in all of this is that those bums represent how much of a iceberg sf has become from those who own land and make bank there and those who rent and share rooms just to become a server. There are a lot of bums who stay out of sight, granted the more memorable ones share some sort of derangement or drug problem, but I'd equally venture most people ignore them as part of the environment. First months there, I saw so much homeless but later grew desensitized to their antics. It was almost a natural process because you saw the same people doing the same things everyday and you wondered wtf happened that made them stop trying. Anyways, the food there is a pretty good value. Plenty of places that beats Starbucks too...
