great post.
When I drove a cab (I say that so often I know I will be made fun of for it sooner or later) there were SO MANY drug addicts who were getting SNAP, welfare, housing help, etc. An if thee was a way to turn that into a commodity for drugs, they did it.
And they were a mess. Just like “Requiem fro a Dream.”
So much money wasted!!! wow. So many young lives on the edge of dying.
One gal just started talking to an imaginary mother and never stopped. I had to call the cops. And she was laughing and taking to the imaginary person the whole time!!!
Cops said sometime they NEVER come out of that ad just sit In a psych ward talking to nobody for months or years.
How did you manage to survive all those years with the dregs of humanity? I think I'd rather work on an Alaskan crab boat than risk being a cabbie in the inner-city.