No, this isn’t a joke. And it’s not about me, so don’t worry.
Before I got my motorcycle I’d walk to work nearly every day. (Rainy days meant the bus.) On the route I most commonly took, there was a makeshift shack that I passed. I never saw the guy who lived there, but I did see smoke drifting through the roof on several occasions, so I knew somebody was using it. It wasn’t pretty, but it looked functional at a bare minimum.
Wait, why describe it? It looked like this:
Hardly palatial, but It’s obvious he put a lot of effort into it. Scrounging the right bits an pieces to make it all work. I always liked the umbrella. Heck there were even a little garden, though I’m not sure if it was his or somebody else’s. (Empty lots are often used as communal gardens by people living in nearby apartments here.)
If you were homeless, you could be worse off than to live here.
So how does the title of this post come into this? What could be worse than being homeless and living here?
How about this:
I don’t know what the neighborhood situation is, or who tore this guy’s shack down, but it seems a pretty messed up thing to do. Yeah, I can see some people not wanting the shack in the lot, but it’s not like I live in some upscale area. There are tons of empty lots around here, many with those concrete pillars sticking up out of them from old, torn-down buildings. At least the shack was a bit of color.I don’t really have anywhere to go with this. I just liked having the shack around, and I think the neighborhood is a poorer place without it. (No pun intended.)