Automan21k
Shared on Thu, 07/22/2010 - 09:49About 2 weeks ago, a tent city at the edge of Harrisburg was shut down. The owners of the property decided they wanted to do something with it, so the homeless squatters were given the boot. Since then I have yet to have a quite, uneventful walk to my car (the parking garage is a mile away.)
Between one of the worst pickpockets I have ever seen(I caught him twice trying to lift my wallet and cell phone), the guy who runs around screaming and throwing bricks (luckily he throws them at people only he can see), the 70yr old, 400lb topless woman (who still poisons my dreams), the Muppet (the guy looks like Animal with black hair and freaks out anytime someone walks too close to him) and then there is Jeb.
Jeb is different, he says hi to everyone he sees, if you are looking down he makes it a point to talk with you and try to cheer you up. The guy is seriously cool. The first time I met him he was sitting in the middle of the Walnut St. Bridge giving everyone who walked by a fist bump and introducing himself. If it weren’t for his torn flannel shirt, and paint covered pants, I’d assume he was running for local office. I have seen him every day for the past 2 weeks, except for a few days I was off, which he made sure to check that everything was ok when he didn’t see me.
I find it strange that someone like him would be homeless. He has a fantastic memory, he’s very sociable, funny, and caring……I even saw him pulling weeds (no not weed) from one of the city owned planters because a “poorly maintained garden annoys (him)” I get the feeling he’s on the run from the cops or something, because I can’t imagine someone wanting to live under a tarp beside a gravel parking lot.
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