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RowanFae said:
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It happened like this:  I was preparing my tent for the evening when I noticed a spider in my tent.  
See, on the other thread, I warned people about shaking their shoes out in the morning in case there was a wolf spider in there, but no one believed me. The truth of my life!

Nothing left now but the "open road", kiddo.
 
Definitely shake out the shoes. Learned that as a kid when I lived in Arizona.
 
You sure meet some characters out in the world.

Today the homeless man that knocked on my door at 1 am trying to make a booty call (I didn't answer) spent the last hour this morning preaching the gospel to me.

He and his tribe are interesting. He says he's been homeless for over twelve years. There's 3 of them, him his wife/girlfriend and an older gentleman. They have 2 dogs, 2 cats and numerous sick kittens. All in a van.

How do I know he was trying to make a booty call? He told me. He caught me early this morning rearranging the stuff in my car trying to get it organized and told me he stopped by at 1 am and knocked quietly but didn't want to wake me up if I was asleep. I asked him, "did you come by trying to make a booty call?" Yep, that's me, straight to the point. He said yes. This was after he'd asked if he could come in my room and speak to me privately. Of course I said no.

After propositioning me for sex, he then decided to preach the gospel to me. He does know his bible, and he was a good looking man but I'm wondering what I did to give him the idea I'm an easy piece of ass needing to find religion.
 
yes we do meet some characters but I would not hang around these people too long cause 'weirdo' characters can go off on ya in a bad way. Happy you are safe and sound :)

Luckily we have wheels, we can move swiftly if needed!
 
RowanFae said:
After propositioning me for sex, he then decided to preach the gospel to me.  He does know his bible, and he was a good looking man but I'm wondering what I did to give him the idea I'm an easy piece of ass needing to find religion.
RowanFae, Roaming Free. You seem to be on a steep learning curve lately, :). Killer spiders and good looking men. What next?

Offhand, I'm a little interested in which part of the bible he was quoting. I am thinking possibly Revelations and talk about trumpets sounding.
 
@QinReno: "...Offhand, I'm a little interested in which part of the bible he was quoting. I am thinking possibly Revelations and talk about trumpets sounding."

He was all over the place, figuratively speaking.
Lots of different scripture, mostly in context.

He asked me if I was Wiccan, because of the Celtic Triquetra pendant I wear. I told him, "No, I'm Irish." He didn't get my humor, but said that the pendant I wear is a Wiccan symbol (Wicca is a relatively new religion and the symbology of the triquetra far outdates it.) So, I think he was trying to save me from the evils of witchcraft. Although, he also talked about after a full day of unsuccessful panhandling, crying out in anger to God, and he looked up and saw the face of an angry God looking down on the selfish people who wouldn't help him.

He really was a unique individual.
 
RowanFae said:
Lots of different scripture, mostly in context. 
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Although, he also talked about after a full day of unsuccessful panhandling, crying out in anger to God, and he looked up and saw the face of an angry God looking down on the selfish people who wouldn't help him.

He really was a unique individual.
I had to look triquerta up. Kind of covers all the bases, :)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra

- "... panhandling, crying in anger, angry God, selfish people ...". I wouldn't say he's all that unique, rather very much like every other panhandler I've ever seen. When I lived in Boulder CO, the town of full of them, doping around on the Pearl Street Mall where all the tourists come. The homeless shelter in Boulder was a heck of a lot nicer than where I lived, LOL. When one has spent one's life trying to be a serious person, it hurts one's stomach to think about people who think and behave like that. 

- "... Lots of different scripture, mostly in context ...". Sounds to me like he missed the underlying message. He seems to have turned it into "what's in it for me?".

Well, you're definitely getting an education.
 
I admit I don't have much experience with panhandlers.

Mostly I found the irony of having the guy knocking on my door with the intention of cheating on his wife preaching to me, to be highly amusing. He was colorful and a unique experience for me.

I love that at my age I'm still learning and getting an education lol
 
Oh my goodness RowanFae, I laughed so hard at the story of the spider. I am arachnaphobic too and the struggle is real. They freak me the hell out, bad enough that reading your story was funny and scary too. I hope you got it.

~angie

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