When I was in University in Atlanta, there was a Long John's Silver nearby (go ahead and laugh) and there was always this OMGUgly homeless man there. I mean the dude and his clothes were basically the same colors, drab brown and green. Had a beard down to his belt buckle and dreads half way down his back. (This was a white guy too). You could smell him when you got out of your car from 40 feet away. Always had a dingy back pack on his back and was always carrying some kind of branch/stick that he picked up. The branch had to have leaves on it though because he stood there and picked them off by the front door.
Dude NEVER begged though. But I still thought it was odd the LJS company didn't run him off because he was really a horrible experience to your eyes and nose. People would give him money at times. Once some of us were in there eating and he came in, ordered food and put a handful of coins on the counter. Then took his back pack off and pulled out a stack of banded up money rolls that a bank robber could have retired off. I mean the bag was just spilling over with tightly banded rolls of bills. He paid and got his change which was a few one dollar bills.
He took his food to a table and sat there to eat. He pulled this nasty 5 comp notebook out of his back pack and the change they gave him back, he looked at the serial numbers and then went through his notebook to match them up. He kept a record of every bill he ever had, the serial number, where he got the bill from, the date he got it, where he spent it, the date he spent it and how many times he received it back later on after spending it. He noticed us watching him and told us all this. Amazingly, the dude didn't "sound" homeless. He had a very intelligent and articulate speech. Vocabulary was impressive. But just an EXTREME OCD disorder that made him track money. It was kind of cool because he had notes where he spent bills 20 years before several states away and they found their way back to him. I always wondered why no one ever robbed him. Dude had to have at least 50-60K in that bag.
