Adios Bookies Wrote:
> you see thats where you get it all wrong... i
> woukld never have been in pensylvania with only
> $44..... you seem proud of the fact that you can
> not plan, and that does not surprise me.....
> because you can always say oh well its back to
> DSS, and a three hour line..... that i can never
> do
So you think that I did not plan my trip to the US? Well let me tell you a story if you have the time. I arrived in NYC with roughly 600 USD. Enough to keep me going for 2 weeks and then enough to catch the Greyhound across. (in hindsight I should never have thought of sitting on a bus for days on end because a. Very uncomfortable and b. ITs the right way to travel if you are only going to be subjescted to there tight schedules for say 3-10 hours). So I spent my 2 weeks in Manhatten doing what most people on a tight budget do like staying in the YMCA and eating at fast food joints and walking most of the time. Unfortunately the 350 that I had left in the room was stolen and all I had on me was a bus ticket to Philadelphia because I intended staying there for two days and then moving on.
Got on the bus in New York and arrived in Philly a couple of hours later. I disembarked from the bus and to my delight spotted a 20 dollar bill on the ground. I snapped it up like a crocodile snapping at a dead chicken. I then made my way to the Salvation Army and asked them for help. They gave me food tickets for Mac Donalds and directed me to the Pink Hotel for a two night stay. Gunshots rang out for most of the two nights. Two days later I made my way down to the bus station and hopped on the bus to Harrisburg. When I arrived in Harrisburg I pleaded with the driver to take my two bags onto LA. He humbed and arred but eventually agreed and gave me a slip so that when I eventually arrived there I would be ablke to collect my bags.
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