Technically it’s only a hobo if the fella travels for work. We just call those ‘migrant workers’ now. Most of our present homeless don’t travel, and that makes them bums. If you travel and DON’T work, you’re a tramp, but these days that’s not so much ‘hopping a train to avoid paying your fare’ and more ‘riding around and around on the bus all day on a single pass because at least it’s shelter’
So thaaat’s where babies come from..
Wait; does anybody still use the term “hobo” anymore? I thought that went out with bindles and cigar stubs on toothpicks.
Technically it’s only a hobo if the fella travels for work. We just call those ‘migrant workers’ now. Most of our present homeless don’t travel, and that makes them bums. If you travel and DON’T work, you’re a tramp, but these days that’s not so much ‘hopping a train to avoid paying your fare’ and more ‘riding around and around on the bus all day on a single pass because at least it’s shelter’
Nice to see someone else knows the difference.
Okay then. It all makes sense now.
I don’t know what’s more disturbing:
1. That they didn’t know were the baby came from, or
2. That they just left it with their daughter
(the hobo in the closet is definitely less disturbing)