# No, you may not live in my carport.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [March 13, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002 "2004-03-13T01:03:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/1 "2004-03-13T01:03:21Z")
There was a little timid _rat-a-tat-tat_ at my front door at 10.00 am this morning, and I answered it to this wild-eyed dude with crazy hair. I thought it must have been one of the kids’ strange mates, but he looked even too strange for _that_ I had to admit. 😃
Anyway, he whispered something through the security door, and after asking him to repeat it a few times ('cos I’m a bit deaf), it transpired that he wanted me to rent him out my carport. When I said “Nah, mate” he then asked if he could just stay there rent free!! 😕
(JFTR, my carport is currently chocka-block full of crap and old furniture awaiting one of those hard-rubbish pickups next week…it must have looked tempting to Wild-Dude, but there is no way known that I want to see my carport rearranged into a living-area.)
In the end, I gave him a cigarette and invited him to take whatever furniture etc that he wanted. God knows where he is going to doss down with the stuff, but I AM going to be checking my property at regular intervals for the next few days and nights. Just in case.
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### Author:  [@Marvel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvel)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/2 "2004-03-13T01:14:31Z")
> [@kambuckta](#):
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> but I AM going to be checking my property at regular intervals for the next few days and nights. Just in case.
I STRONGLY recommend mentioning this to the cops as well.
Patty
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/3 "2004-03-13T01:25:31Z")
I was considering calling the cops, but decided to give this fellow the benefit of the doubt, at least in the short term. It was pretty obvious that he suffered from some sort of mental illness, and while our local constabulary are very familiar with street people and their problems, I’m also aware that not _all_ of them are sympathetic. If he comes back though, I’ll definitely call them
Hey, at least he had the courtesy to ASK me if he could doss down in my junk. 😃
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### Author:  [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/4 "2004-03-13T07:45:00Z")
Can I live in your carport?
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/5 "2004-03-13T16:15:09Z")
Who wants to live there now? Kambuckta gave away all the good furniture.
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/6 "2004-03-13T19:44:21Z")
I used to live in a car port. And we were thankful!
Kids these days…
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### Author:  [@Feit\_C\_Taj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feit_C_Taj)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/7 "2004-03-13T20:53:14Z")
> [@NoClueBoy](#):
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> I used to live in a car port. And we were thankful!
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> Kids these days…
You were lucky to have a carport! We used to have to live in t’ driveway, all 35 of us! 😃
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### Author:  [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/8 "2004-03-13T22:50:19Z")
You had a **driveway**? We had to live in the storm drain.
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### Author:  [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2004, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/9 "2004-03-13T23:03:45Z")
Hell, I initially misread carport as carpet\* and I thought the guy in the OP must have been well beyond crazy:D
[sub]How the hell do you live IN a carpet?[/sub]
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### Author:  [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/10 "2004-03-14T01:26:46Z")
> [@E. Thorp](#):
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> You had a **driveway**? We had to live in the storm drain.
At least you had a storm drain. _We_ had to live in a septic tank. 😃
Robin
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### Author:  [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/11 "2004-03-14T01:48:05Z")
> [@MsRobyn](#):
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> At least you had a storm drain. _We_ had to live in a septic tank. 😃
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> Robin
Septic tank? Hah! We lived in the outhouse, and not one of these fancy newfangled two-seaters. Nope, that was a single seater for all 29 of us.
No fancy moon cutouts in the door either. For light, we lit little Bubba Jr’s farts and hoped they’d last long enough to finish the chapter.
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### Author:  [@rjk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjk)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/12 "2004-03-14T01:50:30Z")
I also first read it as ‘carpet’, and thought of bugs or fleas. I was more interested when I looked again and read it correctly.
(BTW: You had a _ **driveway** _? We had to live in the _ **dirt** _! With the _ **bugs and fleas** _!)
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### Author:  [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/13 "2004-03-14T02:03:28Z")
At least you had pets and real dirt.
When I was _very_ young, _we_ had to live in a rolled up newspaper on the bathromm floor in an abandoned hog rendering plant
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### Author:  [@JimSox5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JimSox5)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/14 "2004-03-14T02:16:16Z")
We were evicted from our newspaper.
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### Author:  [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/15 "2004-03-14T02:51:51Z")
Luxury.
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### Author:  [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/16 "2004-03-14T04:58:02Z")
An abandoned hog rendering plant? We use to dream of living in an abandoned hog rendering plant.
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### Author:  [@Lockz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lockz)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/17 "2004-03-14T05:15:39Z")
A hog rendering plant? Pure decadence … when I was a kid we had to live in the hog!! And hope the hog’s family didn’t notice the extra 42 people living in them!
Seriously, that’s strange. If you see him around again in your stuff perhaps you could call the police.
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### Author:  [@Silver\_Fire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Fire)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/18 "2004-03-14T05:44:28Z")
You guys are weird.
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### Author:  [@msklystron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msklystron)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/19 "2004-03-14T05:54:13Z")
> [@Silver Fire](#):
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> You guys are weird.
Hey I’ve got a carport and I could use the rent money. It’s a bit drafty mind you, especially in the height of a Canadian winter.
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### Author:  [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)
#### Post date: [March 14, 2004, 8:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/no-you-may-not-live-in-my-carport/234002/20 "2004-03-14T08:23:27Z")
> [@iampunha](#):
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> Hell, I initially misread carport as carpet\* and I thought the guy in the OP must have been well beyond crazy:D
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> [sub]How the hell do you live IN a carpet?[/sub]
Well, seeing that he took the carpet away with him, I’m figuring that he is indeed living IN the carpet now.
It was a woollen one. I hope it’s warm. 😃
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