I'll just have water

[WinterDeere]

I found a dollar in an empty cigarette pack in a vacant lot once.

A buddy found a $50 stuffed into an empty beer or soda can under the old abandoned railroad loading dock in my home town. We were thrilled, but looking back on it much later, I realized it must have probably been the savings of one of the semi-homeless people that frequented the area.

I say "semi-homeless", because my home town had no real homeless problem of which I was aware, but there were three individuals who for mental health reasons, had estranged themselves from their families and chose to often reside in or around the old railroad yard. One of them was rumored to be a pedophile, the other two just a little nutty.

 

[MossRoad]

A buddy found a $50 stuffed into an empty beer or soda can under the old abandoned railroad loading dock in my home town. We were thrilled, but looking back on it much later, I realized it must have probably been the savings of one of the semi-homeless people that frequented the area.

I say "semi-homeless", because my home town had no real homeless problem of which I was aware, but there were three individuals who for mental health reasons, had estranged themselves from their families and chose to often reside in or around the old railroad yard. One of them was rumored to be a pedophile, the other two just a little nutty.

There were always homeless guys wondering around our end of town when I was a kid (60s-70s). We called them bums. Mom said to call them hobos. Anyhow, they were always guys that looked much older than they probably were and just wanted to be left alone. They lived in the woods behind the county home from time to time. If we came across their belongings, we'd just go around or take another way. There weren't any rails around that end of town, so how they wondered out there is anybody's guess.