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04/25/06

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Hoax? Real? Blog from a homeless woman in a car...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4923488.stm
http://wanderingscribe.blogspot.com/

It's difficult to say if this is real...

If it is, it's damned scary... and rather thought provoking.

I can't compare, but I was "homeless" once... but thankfully, just for a week or two... but after my mother kicked me out of the house at 18, (long story... basically, my father had recently passed and I was a "troubled teen" if you will... and yeah, in my mother's own words upon my forced departure, she'd "done kids.",) I was sleeping in parks and on subways and living rather hand-to-mouth and nothing else. I can attest to the helplessness and the feeling that, somehow, something just went wrong, but not knowing how to fix it.

That said, this was a hard thing to read because even if it is a "hoax", it's not for MANY people... and had it not been for a sister of mine, it could have been me... without the car, mind you.

Still, it's something to read and ponder...

I had a "boo" through the web to find out whether it's legitimate... and so far, nada...

I'm ACTUALLY inclined to believe it's real... and if it is, it makes the question of obtaining the bus both seem stupid... and incredibly bright.

Call it "Once Bitten, Twice Shy"... which sounds LIKE a joke... but parts of me know it isn't.

While watching the throws of Hurricane Katrina, I mentioned to my wife that had WE been in that situation, I wished we'd had the bus... because we'd have piled into it (pets and all) and made for the hills on the first warning...

Homelessness, for me, is a storm and even a "missed paycheque" away...

...and that's scary.

Trust me on this one, NO ONE WANTS TO BE HOMESLESS. It's not fun... regardless of the "how" they got to be that way.

Realistically, it does make me feel VERY non-altruistic... which is a difficult place for me to be in.

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Allow me to start with we do not own nor are we selling a bus. Just had to get that out...

This blog was started in April of 2006... during a very bad time for me and my family when money was very tight and life was very hard.

We maintained a happier outlook on life by fantasizing... talking about what we would do when times were better... and as Sue and myself are Anglophiles, England factored greatly into our "plans".

During these bad times, while looking at news items which, at the time included items about London removing their venerable old Routemasters, I came across one photo of an old green bus... and somehow, my whole family adopted it. It became very much "our bus". (Details about "our bus" are available by clicking here.)

Like most of you, I'd heard about the fellow who'd made a million dollars selling tiny ads online... and the fellow who did trades and turned a paper clip into a house... so I thought, since we couldn't make our bus actually into "our bus" (well beyond our means,) I'd try an "online" appeal... to make the focused item of our hopes into a tangible thing in our lives...

More specifically, in a burst of adult/juvenile optimism, I had hoped to show the youngest member of the family, who at the time was still very youthful and impressionable, that dreams really could become reality if you hope and, more importantly, try.

Well, I'm pretty sure you figured it out... we had limited succes in this venture... and the youngest has now reached an age where she is more traditionally "teenaged" cynical than much else about the world, which isn't a dreadful thing... but there's a "good news" portion to this... our personal situation with money is better, life has improved, and some people really liked my rambling here... so, I decided to keep things going... Yes, I will "give up" on asking for help on a bus... and have to give up on even trying as hard to get the bus through online means... and yes, be far more realistic... but I don't mind this "turn" of things as I actually enjoy venting, trying my hand at humour, and generally keeping on online presence outside my usual things.

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