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“I saw you, man,” says my piñata friend, back for more cigarettes. “Sleeping on the common, under that tree.” He laughs. “You looked like a bum, man, and I thought, man, that dude works all the time and he’s still homeless. That sucks!”

“That was my day off. I went to get breakfast but fell asleep.”

“That’s a shitty day off.”

“Last week I fell asleep on a bus and rode around all afternoon, until the driver threw me off and I had to walk home.”