re: #143 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

That sounds more like “homeless by choice”. I lived that way for a while when I was younger, camping out in the back of my truck and showering at friends’ houses, campgrounds and public pools.

I kinda got the impression that it was maybe yes, maybe not. He mentioned the stress of “other people” always being worried about being able to pay rent. He stuck me as being on the margins. He maybe could have afforded something - perhaps if he went far outside of NYC but he didn’t have (and likely couldn’t afford) a car.

I am honestly curious about his situation. Like I said, it was a combination of fascinating, tragic, scary. It was, at least for me, pretty emotional.

re: #185 The Vicious Babushka

For Jack Reacher, homelessness is a lifestyle choice. But he’s a fictional character (& Tom Cruise sucked at paying a 6’5” guy)

I think that’s different as Jack Reacher, if my memory serves, never was homeless as in sleeping under a tarp for years at a time. Didn’t he live in motels and such as he was traveling from one book location to the next? :-)