Things that make you go hmmmmm ??

[Waiting in Vancouver 6]

I am currently living on the west coast in Canada (soon to be moving down to Illinois) ... Anyway here is a little story.

In the building complex that I live in, my designated outside parking spot is right beside the dumpsters. On many occasions when getting in my car there will be, for lack of a better word, "homeless people" digging in the dumpster looking for what not. I am always kind to them and usually if I have some empty pop cans or water bottles I will hand to them from my car. These "homeless people" in the suburb that I live in are all adults and probably have had some bad luck which has put them on the street and not by choice so I don't have a problem giving them a little help.

This one afternoon I was just about to get into my car when I hear this cell phone ringing ... I start digging for my cell phone and relise that it wasn't mine. I start to look around to see where it is coming from and all of a sudden one of these "homeless people" pop his head out of the dumpster and starts talking on his cell phone ...

Just vision this guy standing in a dumpster and all you can see is his shoulders and head sticking out the top and he is talking on a cell phone. I thought to my self "this is unbelievable". This guy is digging through the dumpster for what not yet he can afford to have a cell phone. I wonder if he makes his living digging through the dumpsters and sells things at the local pawn shop. And maybe he lives in a nice a house and has a nice car and really isn't "homeless" ... It just makes me go hmmmmm ??

What other things haave made you go hmmmmm ??

[iceyspots 0]

lmao... That's hillarious.. But... do you think it was stolen?

[meddykomp 0]

no different than seeing the parking lot of the food stamp office lined with mercedes and bmw's

[Waiting in Vancouver 6]

lmao... That's hillarious.. But... do you think it was stolen?

umm that's a good point ... I never thought of that ... DOH !!

[PsychoKat 0]

An advance welcome to Illinois for you

That would be a strange sight although I have seen people dumpster diving for things to sell. I live in an apartment complex and at the end of every month people will drive around the complex checking to see what they can salvage from things discarded by people moving out.

[Veiled Princess 1]

no different than seeing the parking lot of the food stamp office lined with mercedes and bmw's

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

They documented an immigrant family the other day on TV where the parents were digging through trash for cans and other recycables. Starting at 2:00am every day, they collected so much recycables that they could afford to pay for their child's college education. They were not homeless people but you would have thought so seeing them "at work".

Sometimes things are not what they seem...

[dalegg 143]

Oh this dumpster diving thing ticks me off. When my daughter was 5 she spent the night over at a friend's house. The next afternoon she came home with some items she didn't leave the house with. I asked her what she had been doing that morning and she excitedly told me "we went dumpster diving!".

Her friend wasn't homeless but I guess this was a regular family activity they had. That was the last time she stayed with them.

[*Robert* 2]

GWB as President.... Hmmmmmmm?!

[Tiksman 0]

Well when I worked for Rent a Center. The people in the projects had Bigger Tv sats than I had. The whole package!! Computer, High speed, 50 inch tv, DVD, Surround sound. All on the goverment Check..

Also I have seen a homless man here get out of a car carrying a cooler. He hid the cooler behind some boxes and got his sign and started begging. What was the cooler drinks and lunch for the day??

[*Robert* 2]

Actually... there is a homeless family that hangs around my town... what makes me go "hmmmmm"... is that fact they live out of a Cadilac!!!

[MrsBruce5 0]

Dumpster diving???

I don't think I could do that sober !

Once I saw a woman on line at the market wearing a full length fur coat and a HUGE rock on her finger paying with food stamps...It was an affluent suburb that I was shopping in...I was 22 and broke-buying store brand cat food with my last $5 until payday ... It made me rather angry at the time, and actually it still does now, 15 years later !

-Rose

[*Robert* 2]

Dumpster diving???

I don't think I could do that sober !

Once I saw a woman on line at the market wearing a full length fur coat and a HUGE rock on her finger paying with food stamps...It was an affluent suburb that I was shopping in...I was 22 and broke-buying store brand cat food with my last $5 until payday ... It made me rather angry at the time, and actually it still does now, 15 years later !

-Rose

[SEAN_EBONY 0]

HEY DID U EVER STOP TO THINK THAT HE HAD JUST FOUND IT IN THE DUMPATER.. MAYBE HE FEELS LIKE HE STRUCT GOLD..

I am currently living on the west coast in Canada (soon to be moving down to Illinois) ... Anyway here is a little story.

In the building complex that I live in, my designated outside parking spot is right beside the dumpsters. On many occasions when getting in my car there will be, for lack of a better word, "homeless people" digging in the dumpster looking for what not. I am always kind to them and usually if I have some empty pop cans or water bottles I will hand to them from my car. These "homeless people" in the suburb that I live in are all adults and probably have had some bad luck which has put them on the street and not by choice so I don't have a problem giving them a little help.

This one afternoon I was just about to get into my car when I hear this cell phone ringing ... I start digging for my cell phone and relise that it wasn't mine. I start to look around to see where it is coming from and all of a sudden one of these "homeless people" pop his head out of the dumpster and starts talking on his cell phone ...

Just vision this guy standing in a dumpster and all you can see is his shoulders and head sticking out the top and he is talking on a cell phone. I thought to my self "this is unbelievable". This guy is digging through the dumpster for what not yet he can afford to have a cell phone. I wonder if he makes his living digging through the dumpsters and sells things at the local pawn shop. And maybe he lives in a nice a house and has a nice car and really isn't "homeless" ... It just makes me go hmmmmm ??

What other things haave made you go hmmmmm ??

[Angelica 0]

back home , there was a charity shop where people left bags of clothes and stuff outside a charity shop for the shop to sell.....A BMW pulled up every Sunday and the driver would sift through the bags taking the good stuff and I heard they sold it at a boot sale, and pocketed the money of course.