Food for thought: Some would drive by and simply throw food or a bottle of water at his feet, sometimes hitting his leg. He was sound asleep when I saw him. I wondered how he felt that no one had the courage to stop and hand him food like a human being?
Perhaps his misspelled sign gives a glimpse into his life? The word "Work" was spelled "Werk" and the word "Dollars" was spelled "Dollors." I could only imagine that he never received the help he needed as a child in school and likely grew up with an undiagnosed learning disability and possibly a mental illness.
I did not wake him in fear this was the only sleep he received all day, with his head on the curb of a parking lot near a busy intersection.
George Orwell once wrote in Down and Out in Paris and London, “It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you.” I think this photo rings true to that statement based on the fact that no one gave this man any respect.
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