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TheLapisFreak t1_j4j1prd wrote

Reply to comment by canuckcowgirl in Neighbors say store uses loud opera music to push away homeless by jab116

Nowadays there's some sort of a device that plays an irritating noise that older people can't hear.

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FirebirdWriter t1_j4klm0a wrote

It's called a mosquito. I supposedly am old enough it shouldn't hurt me but does. I also like opera so homeless me would absolutely get close enough to hear that shit from a comfortable distance

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rainbowstriper t1_j4km276 wrote

Homeless me would just get close and dance in the streets lol

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FirebirdWriter t1_j4km9jl wrote

I did many times when homeless. Dancing releases endorphins. Now that was before I was a homeless adult with a malpractice suit I didn't know I had yet. Misdiagnosis on a spinal injury that took it from treatable to worse than most like it because I kept making myself walk since "nothing is wrong with you".

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rainbowstriper t1_j4knd68 wrote

Oh you were actually homeless? I thought we were just talking about what we would do in an alternate universe if we were homeless. I’m sorry you had to go through that. I hope things are better for you now.

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FirebirdWriter t1_j4knpid wrote

Why would anyone fantasize about being homeless? This isn't asked in anger but genuine confusion. It is a desperate time where you are invisible unless someone is either going to try to help you which is rare or is a danger to you. Not a fun fantasy.

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Beautiful_Marketing6 t1_j4kqnso wrote

Eh, I did when I was young. Till I actually got homeless. Plenty of people romanticize it.

Plenty of morning I woke to the sun on a rooftop with a view of the city.

But I slept on rooftops because the rapists came out at night.

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FirebirdWriter t1_j4kqwdd wrote

Yeah Marie Antoinette did similar things. I don't understand and did not before I was homeless but I appreciate your reminder that this is a thing. It's just absolutely foreign to me which is why I asked for clarification. It's simpler to just ask sometimes. Also the shelters were much worse than the roofs for sure. I kept a fork from dinner one night and put it to good use because I was tired of hearing the assaults and noticed the placement patterns so decided to maim someone. It gave us a whole week off of that. Incase your brain requires some vindication juice (blood vindication juice is blood)

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Beautiful_Marketing6 t1_j4kr4pq wrote

I wish I could say shelters were a good resource but it's trifling in the streets. I don't think people realize how cunning, devious, and feral a human can actually be.

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FirebirdWriter t1_j4krff9 wrote

Not until they're in a position to. I think actually a lot of our scary stories from history are not really monsters but coping mechanisms and training tools that let people prepare for the worst of humanity. That's my coping mechanism for it anyway. I know exactly what I am capable of and it is terrifying. It is also comforting to know at my physical lowest I can still also destroy someone if I need to survive but the price is unpleasant to say the least. If people all knew at all times there would be a lot of people who couldn't cope and would break down causing some very real chaos in society. It's to our benefit that ignorance on this topic exists to a degree. It also does harm but I don't think society would survive as we know it if most people knew. That might not be a bad thing but it could be.

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Beautiful_Marketing6 t1_j4krpmt wrote

Yea it's different. But corporations are just as bad amirite! 🤣😅

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FirebirdWriter t1_j4krtpp wrote

I mean they're worse in my.non joking answer to your joke. They're the root of most modern badness including homelessness. We have the technology to feed and house everyone and give everyone medicine. Corporations work very hard to criminalize that to force profit. It's as if those feral people are in charge

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rainbowstriper t1_j4ko4e1 wrote

I never said anyone was fantasizing about being homeless. I just thought “homeless me” was supposed to mean “if I was homeless and in that scenario”. I just misunderstood what you meant, it’s not that deep. I know being homeless isn’t a fun fantasy, that would be weird.

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FirebirdWriter t1_j4koay6 wrote

Thank you for answering my question. I appreciate that since it's not a simple topic. I figured just asking was better than assuming the worst. I refer to my past selves like that often. Kid me, adult me. It's not caused this sort of misunderstanding before but I will keep that in mind

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rainbowstriper t1_j4koil0 wrote

Oh ok well that makes sense because I refer to myself in other situations as that situation me. So that’s where the confusion came in.

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FirebirdWriter t1_j4kokts wrote

I understand. Also why I asked in part because everyone's got a different baseline for language and internal association

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DeaDGoDXIV t1_j4jbk1a wrote

Oh no, as a bus and train commuter for 15 years now, the younger folk have no problem not using the smaller devices with their handheld devices and irritating everyone.

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NessyComeHome t1_j4kkobp wrote

Not to contradict your experience, but in my area, the ones annoying others and getting yelled at by the bus driver are in their late 20's, early 30's. Playing music without earbuds / earphones, taking calls on speaker phone...

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