Thursday, April 5, 2012

Small Town

I don't like small towns.  In the countryside you can find plenty of open unoccupied shelters like barns and sheds.  In a city there's always somewhere to go and there's plenty of chain stores to buy supplies for cheap, plus you can blend into the crowd easily.  Small towns are too small for you to blend in and too big to sneak around.  There aren't enough stores or shelters and no one just takes a stranger in.  There aren't parking ramps or bridges to sleep under, and there are no barns or sheds to sleep in.    Maybe if you're lucky you'll find a church that's open come nightfall.  No one gets mad at someone who breaks into a church for shelter.  But your best bet is to find a local park or any sort of alleyway and hope the weather is good and the police don't find you.

I don't like police, either.  Some of the things I do to stay safe aren't exactly legal.  I've broken into places and tresspassed a lot.  A stranger in the state I'm in probably isn't going to be someone you want to take into your home, so I have to sneak around in places I shouldn't be to find shelter.  I can't get caught because I'm technically a runaway.  I'm not a legal adult, so I'm not old enough to be living on my own.  If they catch me, they'll send me back, and I can't risk bringing you know what to everybody else.

My battery's dying, so I have to go soon.  I'll figure out tomorrow whether I want to charge my laptop before I leave or after I get to a city.

8 comments:

  1. Small parks, like the kind in sleepy towns work. Behind family owned businesses, they're less likely to get mad, especially if you keep your appearance mainly non scary. Abandoned cars can make good roofs, but you have to make sure that they really ARE abandoned.

    Homeless shelters, dollar stores, etc. I can direct you to a good site that helped out many a Runner back in the day, and the articles/videos should still help. If you want.

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  2. Thanks Dia. Those suggestions should really help. Could you send the site here or to my email?

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  3. http://defendersagainstslenders.blogspot.com/p/survival.html

    That's a good place to start.

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  4. You said that the city you left was cold. You've been walking about a couple months.
    Could you by chance be near Cleveland? I need to get in contact with a Runner. See if theres anything I can do to protect the friends I infected.

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    1. I'm not in Cleveland but I could head in that general direction. I can try to do what I can to help, especially if there's food and a place to stay for me ;).

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  5. Watch your back, April is turning out to be a very dangerous month.

    ~Hoping For The Best.~

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