When a person is as poor as I am, we can make a hundred dollars stretch. Did I buy a new outfit with my hundred dollars? No. No, I did not. I went to a charity closet and replaced my clothes. I saved my two hundred dollars and went home. Well, to the apartment I’m squatting in. People are all kinds of stupid, and you just have to find the right kind of stupid if you’re going to be living hand to mouth. I hung out on the college campus the last month of the semester, listening to students until I found the right person. He has his own apartment, he’s all paid up, and he’s gone for the entire
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