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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: thundley4 on November 28, 2011, 11:13:45 PM
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Sub Atomic (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-28-11 09:10 PM
Original message
Poll question: Have you ever had to live in your car?
I'm not referring to 'car camping' or being unfortunately stuck in a storm somewhere.
Have you ever had to live in your car?
Poll result (103 votes)
Yes. (36 votes, 35%) Vote
No. (67 votes, 65%) Vote
Paging bob the hobo. (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2395421)
saras (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-28-11 09:20 PM
Response to Original message
8. No "other" options on poll - I couldn't afford a car when I was that poor.
Sub Atomic (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-28-11 09:24 PM
Response to Reply #8
17. My apologies.
I didn't mean to exclude you.
Many people (myself included) don't consider themselves 'homeless' when they have a car they can live in. I know - I did it for 3 months two years ago.
I had shelter. I wasn't homeless.
Yet the government considers people living with relatives or in trailers to be homeless.
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I live in my car 4-6 weeks every year but it's a RV.
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I've slept in an RV many times while staying with my parent's. Only because I can't stand the smell of their cigarettes and stale smoke in their home. Does that count?
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I've never lived a car but I don't even like to go camping.
cindie
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I was living in my car when I was 17 after my parents divorce. I didn't want to live with my mother and "new" Dad and my Dad got a crappy one room apt. That's when I decided to join the Army and get the hell out of Dodge. So started my adult life. Been working ever since and have owned my own home for 12 years now. Its not that hard DUmmys you just have to work.
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Why would I ever live in my car? I have family...and I don't start stupid political fights with them. :rofl:
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Why would I ever live in my car? I have family...and I don't start stupid political fights with them. :rofl:
I have two sisters. The older one would take me in in a heart beat....the other one, the younger one, I would rather live in a hole in the ground.
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Here in my car
I feel safest of all
I can lock all my doors
It's the only way to live in cars.
Here in my car
I can only receive
I can listen to you
It keeps me stable for days in cars.
Here in my car
Where the image breaks down
Will you visit me please
If I open my door in cars
Here in my car
You know I've started to think
About leaving tonight
Although nothing seems right in cars.
-- Gary Numan
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Where's Bobo??
KC
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I have two sisters. The older one would take me in in a heart beat....the other one, the younger one, I would rather live in a hole in the ground.
We used to DREAM of a hole in the ground!
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We used to DREAM of a hole in the ground!
:rotf:
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo[/youtube]
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I was technically homeless for about a month and a half.
I left FL for NC. Made a camping trip of it with the then-beach bunny in tow. We had plenty of cash, clean credit, etc.
When we got to Greensboro we encountered a phenomenon for which we were unprepared: while we were prepared to offer 1st, last and security deposit of up to $4500--in cash--per south Florida tradition, none of the apartments would accept us until we had proof of employment.
All well and good but we didn't have jobs, we were new in town. Trying to get a job is difficult, even if you're only looking for restaurant work, if you have no address apart from the state camp grounds.
We were stuck at that camp ground running between apartment complexes and job applications for 6 weeks.
It wasn't until the first winter ice storm shredded our tent and left us soaked-through and shivering that one of the apartment managers defied his corporate office policies (which he had been trying to get waived). He took pity on us and cut us a 6-month lease which we paid for in advance in with post-dated checks.
A week after getting my address I had a job. We re-did the lease to xomething more legit and within a month the beach bunny was working the front office of the apartment complex, so impressed was the manager with our personal diligence and work ethic.
Life went on.
BTW - we didn't apply for government assistance either
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We used to DREAM of a hole in the ground!
You had a hole? You were lucky.
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The DUmmies never visit subjects like this until they see it on 60 Minutes. Then the po me stories start. Next thing you know, they're demanding free houses. :whatever:
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You had a hole? You were lucky.
You had the ground? We dreamed of the ground.
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You had the ground? We dreamed of the ground.
You dreamt? We couldn't afford to dream.
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Well not really, but would a flop house count? A friend and I were planning on couch surfing at his GF's while we searched for an apartment in Fla but her parents seemed to have a different idea. Best we could come up with was a 'cheap rooming house' who's land lady had many daughters of easy virtue (and concidentially just a block from the local PD in Coral Gables of all places). Talk about a Hot Sheet Hilton, but since we had no where else to go, and very little money ... in retrospect, I think it would have been preferable to sleep in the car. :whatever:
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Poor, stupid Beth, crammed into that little camper with her mother and two big, smelly dogs:
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Mon Nov-28-11 11:57 PM
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41. Not yet. In the really dangerous years of Doug's stuff
I fixed up an old airstream up here and stayed there for most of two years while I supported the house in San Francisco, only going up there to drop off walking around money for him. During another period, I stayed with him in an SRO so he could be close to his doctor and I commuted back and forth at night from here. I might as well have been living on BART. I was working, he wasn't. Those were some bad years.
Then, through Beth's financial wizardry, her mother lost her home and her rental property, and poor, stupid Beth was evicted from her apartment in Sodomy City. Now they're both stuck in the Airstream. It was hard to fall into poverty during the Great Bush Prosperity, but poor, stupid Beth managed to do it.
By the way, an "SRO" is "single room occupancy", which is a euphemism for a flophouse.
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Eee gads! I have something in common with Beth!
I lived in an Airstream on a ranch one summer. Many miles from the headquarters. Hauled my water and had propane for lights, cooking and the refrigerator. All I had to do was ride young horses about 10 hours a day and pitch in at other camps if they needed help. It was a wonderful existence for a horse crazy teen. That Airstream was pretty fancy compared to some camps, that's why the "girl" got it.
I can still see the days and nights of the desert, and smell the sage and gumbo dust. Awesome memories!
Never lived in a car.
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By the way, an "SRO" is "single room occupancy", which is a euphemism for a flophouse.
Thank you for spelling that out; I had no idea what the acronym meant.
Of course, usually it means "standing room only," but Doug's stupid ex-wife wasn't talking about the theater business, and so I was stymied.
Sometimes I think acronyms are so popular with the primitives because they can't spell out long words.
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I could easly live in an Airstream. I got a small section on one end of the closet 2 drawers in the dresser and have been pushed out of my corner in the top drawer of the bathroom cabinet....an Airstream would be like a palace to me.
Don't tell the wife I'm complaining.
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I take the DUmmies have never seen Europe on ten dollars a day.
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I slept in my car once, some years ago. I had been out with friends, got back to my parents' house at a very late hour when they were undoubtedly in bed, then realized I didn't have my key on me. I didn't want to wake them by knocking on the door or ringing the doorbell, so I got as much sleep as I could (About 3-4 hours) in the backseat of my car. Definitely not the most comfortable experience, but again, I didn't want to wake my parents. Then, of course, the next morning when I got in and they learned what happened, they said I should have knocked or rung the bell, they wouldn't have minded getting up to let me in.
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Airstreams are cool. I would love to have one. If I had one, I would live in it for sure.