one early morning, before the sun was up, I drove into work and as I turned into the parking lot, there was a bum cooling his butt off on one of those cement parking blocks. Soon as he saw me, he got up, pulled up his pants and walked off into the darkness. In Cali, there's no super cold winters to freeze them all to death like the midwest. Maybe that's why there's more of them around.
I feel bad for them though. I'd love to, one day, just buy a bunch of hard liquor and pass them out to all the bums so they can have something to warm themselves up, but whenever I mention this, lots of people are against it. I don't know why. Maybe next time I'm in MN, I'll take some to the Hmong bums at Phalen Lake.