Isn't it so!Unocat wrote:A very similar thing happened to me in Austin. If you don't know it, Austin is the California of Texas... Among the many amenities of Austin we offer a bum on every corner... Literally every corner. And such attractions as Hobo Hamlet and Vagrant Village, campsites under highway underpasses. Making a left hand turn at a light in Austin gets you the pleasure of a few moments with a friendly or not so friendly street person. If a gas station is near a bum corner or hamlet, the bums often pester customers for money (not food - they'll toss that).
So I was getting some gas near hobo hamlet (Burnet and 183) and sure enough there is a guy pestering people in the parking lot. I was open carrying... For some reason he never came to me? Looked right at me but walked off. Strange isn't it?
When I came to Austin ~50 years ago, I thought it was the greatest place in the world. They had taxis, buses, one way streets, street lights, elevators, honky tonks, all night restaurants and more besides. It was easy to find your way around, lots of places to go and see, clean, well kept. Hippies were pretty much confined to the Student Union in those days.
Now, not so much. Traffic is hideous, it looks mostly like some third world hell-hole, even some of the faculty look like bums.
