“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.”