So I’m walking to an evening class at a local college, it’s dark. There’s a bend just before the junction and as I’m walking across a car comes round way too fast. I had to step back to avoid being hit. I was wearing gloves and as it went past I hit it, no idea why, just instinct and anger.
I carry on walking and I see the driver has pulled over a bit down the road, I was expecting a “sorry are you ok” but she instead shouted “did you just hit my car?”. That set me off, shouting at her that she almost fucking ran me over. Then she says “you don’t have to use that kind of language”, the fucking nerve.
Gave up and just walked off. Wish I’d have smashed the wing mirror or keyed the car or something.
Has anyone else almost been run over and how do you deal with the anger of it?
Go re read my posts and tell me where I denied that homeless people get hit on the highway.
You can’t, because I didn’t.
Go re read my posts and tell me where I said that you said people often camp on highways.
You can’t, because I didn’t.
And now you’ve specified that you are talking about I5, and that
So when you say, on the highway, you actually mean next to, or adjacent to I5, in the greenspaces, not literally on the highway.
You can camp on Aurora/99/Airport because Aurora includes sidewalks.
As I thought I already made clear in my last comment, you cannot camp on I5 for very long because you’d be on the shoulder or the middle of the road and that would get cleared out extremely quickly by SPD, KC Sheriffs, or Highway Patrol, or you might just your whole tent hit by a car.
You can camp adjacent to I5, in the greenspaces, and last … eh, maybe a few months tops, in one location.
Just because you keep seeing tents along I5 doesn’t mean the cops and social services aren’t constantly going around forcing specific people to move and then new tents from new people pop up in basicslly the same spot.
Also, great, you donated to DESC, your dad was homeless, you helped him out, you give money to people.
I am genuienly glad that you do this.
I used to co-lead the entire database management/analysis for Mary’s Place, came up with org wide policies based on the data I gathered, spearheaded new programs, designed new, and maintained and improved upon all the old, non 3rd party liscensed software systems vital to day to day functions of basically the entire org, sans accounting.
And I did outreach, on the streets, doing intake for homeless families, interviewing them, redesigning our intake processes to be more streamlined and less stressful for clients, focusing on the actual most common non English languages we encountered.
Oh and I myself was homeless, don’t have any family or friends that gave a shit.
But uh yeah anyway, I didn’t say I know how you feel about homeless people, I asked you, you didn’t directly answer, so I dropped it.
Guess this whole homeless topic is a bit of a sore spot for you.
I said don’t camp on the highway. You replied with some diatribe about how people don’t camp on the highway. And you’re just being pedantic.