Bobo's a international hobo-

[Tucker]

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Dover (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-17-10 07:21 PM
Original message
If you reside near a major airport hub PLEASE consider extending some kindness  
 Edited on Sat Apr-17-10 07:39 PM by Dover
to those who are experiencing the stress and distress of having their journey abruptly altered.

I have been the recipient of the kindness of strangers when I've traveled abroad. One can feel
especially vulnerable and frightened in foreign places where there are none of the usual
touchstones of familiarity or understanding of how to maneuver. And a language barrier
just exacerbates that feeling.

I'm reminded of how touched I was by the story about how the good folks in Nova Scotia took strangers into their homes and lives when a plane bound for the U.S. was grounded there for several days on 9/11.

Many people who are stranded cannot afford
housing or even food for an extended period of time.

So if you can open your homes or provide a cot, a hot meal and some books or just provide some friendly support and companionship to stranded passengers, it can turn a very difficult experience into a fond memory.

According to current news reports it seems the volcanic activity in Iceland is only increasing
in intensity and may go on for a few weeks.



P.S. - If you speak a foreign language you might be especially helpful!
 

Are you crazy?

Dover (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-17-10 08:06 PM
Response to Original message
5. Hey, how about forming a local area "DU squad" and tackle it as a group..
 I wonder what, if anything, communities are planning on doing if this really is an extended
delay (a few weeks or more)? It will take some creative problem solving.

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-17-10 10:11 PM
Response to Reply #5
11. Excellent idea!
 Edited on Sat Apr-17-10 10:12 PM by bobbolink


Unfortunately, you haven't gotten a lot of response.

We could create a lot of Good Will and contribute to world peace by some simple acts of kindness.

Bobo is scheming for an all expense vacation.

Dappleganger  (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-17-10 10:26 PM
Response to Reply #7
13. Awesome!
 Having kept various exchange students in the past (French, mostly) I've no doubt they were very appreciative...especially their parents!

Doesn't meet the bobo seal of approval.

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-17-10 10:29 PM
Response to Reply #13
15. However, consider this.... that was CORPORATE aid. Is that really what we want to  
 be the impression on people from other countries, that its only corporations you can count on?

If WE, The People extend hospitality, we will forge a much different image.

Something to consider

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-17-10 10:08 PM
Response to Original message
10. In Greece, they have the Tourist Police, who, among other things, help visitors find accomodations  
 in the homes of the Greek people.

I had occasion to be availed of some of the services of the Tourist Police, and I can tell you, their hospitality really creates Good Will.

USians would do well to emulate them.

Wonder how she got there. Hid out in the wheel well of a jet liner?

Dappleganger  (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-17-10 10:28 PM
Response to Original message
14. Wish we could but two couches are already taken for the next week.
 Seriously, LOL. There's another one on youngest ds' top bunk, too. Our daughter's out of town friends can pretty much crash anywhere.

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-17-10 10:30 PM
Response to Reply #14
16. There are other ways to offer kindness.
 Just taking a basket of fruit, for instance.

Fresh fruit while sitting around an airport... that would be very welcome, I would guess.

Who in their right mind would take a hand out of food from a bum?

[GOBUCKS]

Anyone care to bunk on bobbo's dirty laundry in the back seat of her Buick?

[sofa king]

bobo the hobo is telling the truth about driving her buick to greece, and partaking of the wonderful hospitality of "any other country that is not america." 

because "any other country that is not america" has *always* treated the hobos of this world with grace and dignity.   they just do!  history has shown us this time and time again.



it must be true.  because bobo the hobo posts on the internet, over and over again, at 3am from her local public library.   

bobo the hobo wouldn't lie about that...

 





   

[GOBUCKS]

it must be true.  because bobo the hobo posts on the internet, over and over again, at 3am from her local public library.

Actually, DUmmy bobbolink recently mentioned that, like most other vagrants, she's posting from an iPhone. That AT&T unlimited data plan comes with your foodstamps these days. 

[sofa king]

i am gobsmacked! 

how could i have missed that bobo the hobo, the one that will NOT live in anything short of a taxpayer provided McMansion (with taxpayer provided utilities, food and cable)  has her own iPhone?

i don't even have an iPhone.

damn...



perhaps bobo the hobo is right.  contribute to society?  you get nothing.  leech on society?  you get an iPhone!


maybe my thinking is all wrong.

bobo the hobo got an iPhone.  i got no iPhone. 


hummm...   i'll get back to you...

 

[dandi]

Actually, DUmmy bobbolink recently mentioned that, like most other vagrants, she's posting from an iPhone. That AT&T unlimited data plan comes with your foodstamps these days. 

It's the "must have" accessory for the homeless chic this season.

[The Village Idiot]

MetroPCS not good enough for the homeless?

[JLO]

bobo the hobo is telling the truth about driving her buick to greece, and partaking of the wonderful hospitality of "any other country that is not america." 

because "any other country that is not america" has *always* treated the hobos of this world with grace and dignity.   they just do!  history has shown us this time and time again.



it must be true.  because bobo the hobo posts on the internet, over and over again, at 3am from her local public library.   


bobo the hobo wouldn't lie about that...

 

   

She's about as homeless as our indoor/outdoor 20-year-old cats are.  I think she is just empathetic to an extreme.  I talked to her backstage and that's my impression. 

That was it for me.   

[diesel driver]

Dappleganger  (1000+ posts)      Sat Apr-17-10 10:26 PM
Response to Reply #7
13. Awesome!
 Having kept various exchange students in the past (French, mostly) I've no doubt they were very appreciative...especially their parents!

I bet they were all female, too (French, mostly)....   

[franksolich]

If bobo was ever in Greece, I'll bet the police she dealt with weren't "tourist" police.

Probably spent a few nights in the local lock-up, which unlike a car, has electricity and indoor plumbing.

bobo's lying, as usual.

[Tucker]

Stinky checks in.

Stinky The Clown  (1000+ posts)        Sat Apr-17-10 11:23 PM
Response to Original message
19. I had actually thought about that, but the world today is very mistrustful .....
 Some years ago we offered to take in people from Bethesda or Walter Reed for a holiday. We were told they would not allow that. "Thanks but no thanks".

Today I imagined going to airport to ...... what? Troll for stranded travelers? Tell an airline employee that I'm trustworthy and won't axe murder their passengers?

I understand the sentiment and endorse it. I just don't know, as a practical matter, how it would work.

 

[Randy]

MetroPCS not good enough for the homeless?

It's good enough for me! 
But even at that I'm to cheap to have one of them fancy Smart Phone thingies.

[Ralph Wiggum]

bobbolink  (1000+ posts)       
Sat Apr-17-10 10:29 PM
Response to Reply #13
15. However, consider this.... that was CORPORATE aid. Is that really what we want to 
 be the impression on people from other countries, that its only corporations you can count on?

Do you have ANY FREAKING IDEA how much money corporations give to charity?  They don't do it just for the tax write-offs, most corporations value the importance of giving back to community.

[The Village Idiot]

Do you have ANY FREAKING IDEA how much money corporations give to charity?  They don't do it just for the tax write-offs, most corporations value the importance of giving back to community.

They donate a lot to leftist groups too, "protection" money. If it were not for government funding and corporate donations how many leftist groups would vanish?

[Karin]

Doesn't meet the bobo seal of approval.

That is impossible to obtain.  Even if you made a post saying "I feel terrible for all homeless people and will work tirelessly to eradicate the problem,"  she will come back and pick a vicious fight with you. 

The starry-eyed moonbats are always dreaming of these sorts of scenarios.  Remember one guy who wanted a group to trek to Washington DC and stay in a variety of "progressive-only homes" along the way (for free, of course)?  It was laughable in a uncomfortable way. 

All these guys should watch Hostel I, II, III, IV, and V a couple times. 

[kenth]

Bobo the International Hobo. That's a great title for "reality" television. They could have bobbo jetset around the world, rating and berating the locals on their handouts.

[JLO]

That is impossible to obtain.  Even if you made a post saying "I feel terrible for all homeless people and will work tirelessly to eradicate the problem,"  she will come back and pick a vicious fight with you. 

The starry-eyed moonbats are always dreaming of these sorts of scenarios.  Remember one guy who wanted a group to trek to Washington DC and stay in a variety of "progressive-only homes" along the way (for free, of course)?  It was laughable in a uncomfortable way. 

All these guys should watch Hostel I, II, III, IV, and V a couple times. 

Indeed!