The view of aluminum foil is the same as a shot in the mirror.

I remember a very unsuccessful traveler kid once told me "I lost her...What the fuck do I do now? I wander around getting picked up by bulls, for what?"
I told him, "What else you wanna do?"
He said, "I am alone with no future"
"Ya? So... We all are, you fascist piggy, keep your head above following the colonel or you'll wind up sucking the tit of all the saps who think they know what's what. You think anyone else knows what it means to be you?"
He just cried.
"Fuck" I thought, "This is gonna be a long week in rehab with no doctors but what the bottle can afford or some drug to guide one into the clarity of blindness."

Another instance, May, 2011, San Fran. in Golden Gate Park

A pregnant woman in her early twenties, African American, from L.A., lost impregnantor in San Fran. after traveling with her for some time.

We talk after I'd been drinking all day in a circle of krust, crackheaded home-bum grifters, watching fist fights, arguments, prostitutes handing out whiskey to those who didn't give them shit, and gently worn dogs. She is knitting a hat for her soon to be child, I am drinking. She asks, "Why did this happen to me? I hate those yuppies... now I'm forced to become one. All I want to do is keep traveling and being young and fighting from becoming one of those old fucks!"
She began to cry.
I tried to tell her it isn't that way, but what do I know with no bun in the oven?
I stood up and walked a couple blocks to go get some acid off junky mike down at the corner.

Sometimes, I think I am an asshole, but what about anyone else who has read this? We all are, as the saying goes, "Tell me you hate me" and then a trust forms between two people or whatever. I don't know...who knows?