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These 17 People Had Strange Encounters with Homeless People

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In San Francisco, I took a detour at a coffee shop walking to Hayes Valley from the Mission. When I walked out, a homeless guy started following me down the street, hobbling the whole time asking me for change. He followed me for a block before I went into a clothing store to seek refuge.

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My friend picked a fight with a homeless guy drunkenly over the reason why he was homeless while her girlfriend tried to alleviate the situation and give him money to make him go away. This, in turn, made her more upset because she didn’t want her girlfriend giving the guy money, so the two got in a fight, while fighting with the homeless guy. I sat there smoking a blunt on the sidewalk with these random dudes as the whole thing happened.

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One time I was on acid and some homeless guy on a motorized wheelchair came driving up to me. He was walking his dog, and his dog started sniffing me. He said to me, “My dog, she likes the reds”, because I have red hair, deep red, not ginger. The guy looked up at me, stared right at me, had a dramatic pause and blinked and said, “But the gingers man, they’re f*cking scary sh*t.” and sped off on his wheelchair. It took me a solid 20 minutes to comprehend what happened. Apparently he was a dirty old war vet, around the age of 50-60. I thought he was in his 20’s. Acid is a crazy drug.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.