These 17 People Had Strange Encounters with Homeless People

by Irvi Torremoro

8.

I was standing with my girlfriend at a bus stop in Vancouver. Then this crazy hobo starts pointing at me and shouting as if to an audience: “You see him? It’s cowards like him that are ruining this country. F*cking cowards. Traitors!” I guess it had something to do with the fact that I’m white and my girlfriend was Filipina.

9.

One night I got really hammered and fell asleep on a bench. A couple of homeless guys wake me up in the morning and decide I must be homeless too. They invite me to join their gang of hobos, so I, still drunk, agree and wander around town for a while with them, until they suggest that we steal a crate of beer from a truck that was outside a bar. I declined and went and got the train to my parents house.

10.

A hobo offered to buy my house keys for a cigarette.

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.