What do you do, where do you live in, and how much is your annual income?

[Lust4Life]

@Antonia

Female, single, 50-ish.

Live on: the streets.

Occupation: self employed magazine salesperson. When I run out of *The Big Issue * I’ll sell anything I can find, most customers don’t bother to look anyway. They just take the piece of paper I offer them, give me some change and get away from me as fast as they can.

Income: depends – people tend to ignore me on rainy days or when local footy team lost. In nice weather it’s different – sometimes they even look me in the face and say something.

Real estate: cardboard box underneath a bridge (I’m not telling you which bridge – you’re after my box aren’t you!) I also have a winter residence which has a bed and a roof. I meet a lot of my colleagues there. The rent is 3 euros a night including a meal.

Mode of transport (besides feet): supermarket trolley – paid for in cash (bl**dy thing cost me 50 eurocents, can’t get the freakin’ coin out of the slot).

Like KlondikeGeoff on here, I also can’t seem to get life insurance. Or any insurance whatsoever.

This is not meant to mock the homeless. Far from it.

The homeless in the U.K. sell The Big Issue but though a part of the E.C. Britain uses Pounds Sterling and pence not Euros and Euro Cents and I’ve never heard a Brit ever use the word Freakin,not once not ever.

Your post puzzles me,if you are choosing to publicise the plight of the poor why are you(presumably an American going by your choice of the word Freakin)portraying your character as being British?

[Desert_Nomad]

@WVmom

Actually, one Euro is worth about $1.50 these days.

I think it means what costs $1 in the US costs about €1 in Europe.