Last night the wife and I were strolling in Mission and a homeless guy came up to us at a crosswalk. "Did you know I looked my birth certificate up at the registries and I didn't exist?" he informed us.
Now that's a new one. The guy was either mentally ill, trying to be funny or making some sort of biting social commentary (ie homeless people are invisible, they don't exist). Perhaps it was some combination of the three. In any event, though, we didn't give him any change.
It's kind of ironic how some of the more hip and happenin' neighborhoods in town seem to have some of the worst problems with homeless beggars. Kensington, 17th, Mission...
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