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O.K., to quantify, I live, drive, and have seen every part of Southern California, so I've got the experience & background in dealing with the freeway off ramp "terrorists", so, let's just get that out of the way.
Anyways, so, I'm sitting waiting for the light to change, and I see the typical guy with the multiple signs "Please Help", "Veteran" (yeah, right), with all the other written bulls#!t (usually misspelled, on purpose?) that normally goes on these signs. Of course, the signs are made up of an old flattened out cardboard box they found, and they're next to a shopping cart with all their "possessions", O.K., we get it. Picture painted. Hopefully you're with me.....
Now, these cardboard signs are usually pretty big, and color filled in. So, we're talking maybe 1-2 big fat felt-tip "Marks-A-Lot" or a large Sharpie per sign - and those things are like $7 (and up) a piece! That's like, what, 5-6 meals you could live on for a few days? Maybe even more if you stretch your budget? Plus, those pens don't last very long, and neither do the signs before they fade, so they need to repeat the process about every week or so. And it's not like they're finding a whole felt pen set in the trash. Are they stealing the pens? Do they need to start locking these up like they do Sudafed and razor blades? Or, do they make more in one day than a minimum wage worker makes in a week.....
Anyone else notice or have any thoughts on this?
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