Which, incidentally, is still a hell of a lot more than most of us. Especially when you consider it's mostly voluntarily on his part. It's all about image (which, incidentally, I suspect is why he plays up being 'homeless' even when he's really just couch surfing most of the time). I mean I like camping now and again, but there's nothing fun or romantic about sleeping under an overpass.
Your right I really should have qualified that with the word's "At most", it's not often he has to spend that many nights outside an it's very rarely for consecutive nights.
An your right he does play it up for that very reason, all's Phil has is his image and it's not a very thick veneer at that - He knows down an out's who are homeless tend to get a lot of sympathetic attention and that's what he craves most of all so that's what he plays to, if he wasn't homeless through his own actions and decisions (
and he's had plenty of opportunities for this to change to boot that he's squandered) I'd be sympathetic towards him but as it is I'm not.
And what a wonderful waste of taxpayer money that is! He could just get a job, or hell, even volunteer at a library or something and actually get more out of life. Well, maybe not with his tattoos. And wardrobe. And noticeable lack of hygiene and social skills. But at one point he had to have been employable, and at a job he probably could have tolerated to boot
Oh definitely, I think part of that is cultivated to make himself more oppressed so he can't get a job or at least the sort of job he's able to do - his one an only job at wawa was through one of those Tards to Work programs now there is no shame in that because well Phil's not capable of any real work but he was earning far more then, than he does now off SSDI. What's appealing to him is that he's now able to not have to work to get a not insignificant amount of money for doing it.
His attitude can be summed up as "Don't want to work, how can I avoid work", so he's consciously made the decision to put himself outside of the employable population (
at least one benefit of this is he's not half arsing a job that some one else would be glad of) and he's the sort of person who makes it difficult for people who are in genuine hardship who are not able to work that certain media likes to portray as scroungers an layabouts but for the majority that simply isn't the case.
The libary thing I gather is normal for the homeless population in the US (
not so much in England duno why) but the thing is he's not using that time he's there productively and that does irritate me,
he's litterly in a place designed to spread an share knowledge but what does he do? He uses it to browse porn, post hate speech on Facebook and to act like a moron, if he was using his time to look for work, or at least try and educate himself on something anything I wouldn't have a issue but he doesn't he just uses the computer and takes up resources that people who want to better themselfs or get a job could be using, and he makes the other patrons uncomfortable while he does so.
