A Funny!!!! A Transient & Transient Parking!!!

[NW_Pilot]

OK, I fly from KVUO to KBFI in Seattle to go to the passport office! While waiting for them to check me out and to print my passport I decided to go play around downtown Seattle for a few hours.

I meet this guy "transient" that was looking to go to Portland, Oregon. I told him that I would be more than happy to give him a ride to Vancouver, Wa KVUO after I was done about 4pm. I meet with him after i finish with my business tell him how we are going to be traveling! He was really happy to find out we were flying in a small airplane because has never been in an airplane.

The flight was uneventful even though it was 100+ degrees out!

We land at my home airport and as I was taxing to my parking space he spots a sign and makes a comment below....

"Uhhh that sign says transient parking? I say yes! He says I have never meet a transient that owns an airplane let alone most don’t even own cars!"

I could not help but to start busting up laughing!

 

[kingsize]

That is pretty funny!

But you are a braver man than I for taking some homeless stranger in your little plane. How did you "meet" him anyways?

 

[FN FAL]

...you are a braver man than I for taking some homeless stranger in your little plane. How did you "meet" him anyways?

Just because a person lives in a corrugated box in an alley, it doesn't mean that he can't socialize in a gay bar.

 

[NW_Pilot]

That is pretty funny!

But you are a braver man than I for taking some homeless stranger in your little plane. How did you "meet" him anyways?

I used to be in that guys situation "homeless", most homeless people are like you and I just down on their luck! He was on the street trying to catch "hitch" a ride to Portland! This person seemed a bit strange but I was not threatened.

 

[AWACO]

I used to be in that guys situation "homeless", most homeless people are like you and I just down on their luck! He was on the street trying to catch "hitch" a ride to Portland! This person seemed a bit strange but I was not threatened.

You want us to believe you were homeless in the sense you were sleeping in a street at night and pushing a shopping cart around durring the day? Or do you mean homeless like when you were between apartments mommy and daddy were buying so you were crashing at a friends house? Must be tough living off the state while getting a commercial ticket...Tell us more o master of pitty.

 

[FN FAL]

You want us to believe you were homeless in the sense you were sleeping in a street at night and pushing a shopping cart around durring the day? Or do you mean homeless like when you were between apartments mommy and daddy were buying so you were crashing at a friends house? Must be tough living off the state while getting a commercial ticket...Tell us more o master of pitty.

I was joshing about the gay bar comment, you're being mean.

I had a tough summer once when I was younger, if it wasn't for the 60 bucks a week unemployment and a little help from friends, I'd think I would have been living in an alley myself.

 

[NW_Pilot]

You want us to believe you were homeless in the sense you were sleeping in a street at night and pushing a shopping cart around durring the day? Or do you mean homeless like when you were between apartments mommy and daddy were buying so you were crashing at a friends house? Must be tough living off the state while getting a commercial ticket...Tell us more o master of pitty.

Hahaha, Yea Right! Only if that was like you said! When I was 18 it was get the (Ph)uck out of my house take nothing you came in to this world with nothing you’re leaving here with nothing!!!

I Lived a Year and a Half on the streets eating out of trash cans and sleeping in parks and abandon buildings! It was not a happy time in my life but I lived through it and was not drawn in to the dope and criminal activities that are associated with homelessness. With persistence and a lot of hard work and a few handouts I put my self together and climbed myself out of my hole I was in, Always trying my best to never get in that situation again "it can happen to anyone" and I try and help people that want help to get out of that situation. "I do look down that ally or in that gutter when walking down the street"

I have worked for every thing I have! That’s why I respect and appreciate every thing I have! Because I know it can all be gone in a flash!

 

[DGdaPilot]

If you're genuine in your life story, then I have a great deal of respect for you.

 

[NW_Pilot]

If you're genuine in your life story, then I have a great deal of respect for you.

True Story, And Thank You!!!

Most people don't understand that it can happen to anyone and in todays world there are a lot of people living paycheck to pay check and they are 1 paycheck away form losing it all.

It dose not scare me to pick up hitch hikers or the homeless!

 

[aussiefly]

NW pilot is completely correct, it really is more common that you think. I left home at 16 and spent about 2 years doing it rough and the hard part about it is that without a fixed address or phone number its not easy getting a job. Couple this without having completed school its downright difficult. The government doesnt make it any easier when to claim emergency benefits you have to have a place of residence so its really a catch 22 situation.

It happens a hell of a lot more than you all realise and the reality is some of us on the streets still maintain an air of respect and dignity. In my case I was always to ashamed to admit that I was homeless and ask for help from some of the people that I was close to.

Eventually, some organisations like St Vincent Depaul and Salvation Army helped me on my feet enough to find a hostel living arrangement and get me to look at some GED type programs. I completed a tertiary prep program quickly and eventually struggled through university working 2 jobs to survive.

It's something we all forget as pilots, although alot of us come from middle class families or have had the privledge of being able to afford/loan our way through flight training that there are many many people worse off.
Through all of our bitching and moaning on these boards its important to remember that we are the lucky people who have had opportunities that others have not.

Thats why no matter how hard work/flying jobs get I always remember that its still easier than living rough.