I really am a cripple, you know.

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Ok so why post this here on a public forum?

Also I'm wondering why you left SF. That seems to be a much more HL friendly city. They have shelters, free food, and a homeless outreach team.

Note to ASS-P:

If you want to buy a comic book, do it. If you want a cheese burger, eat it. There are too many people who think that just because you're poor you should be deprived of all joy. That's crap. With the life you've lead, you have as much right as anybody to be happy.

I make $15,000 a year and am "poor" by most estimates, but I still buy and play video games. Don't let people shame you into being a miserable wretch just because you weren't lucky enough to be born middle-class.

He wasn't born with a "silver spoon"---but he came from a well-off family (I believe).

Still, you're right. If he wants to enjoy a cheeseburger, let him enjoy a cheeseburger.

...I can't, as I said, carry a stove around with me! I don't know how to do that! Even though I'm trying to avoid talking to MS, as far as returning to San Francisco goes, from for and against...Ping-ponging this many times between Santa Cruz and SF seems, on one level, to be a little silly. For a major " Against " there is simply the fact that SF is very hilly - Surely you've seen some of those action movies with dramatic car chases using the hilly parts of SF ! - Built on seven hills, like Rome . - I'd have to deal with a lot of hills - given that I am handicapped . I left SF in 2017 partly - heavily - because the Social Services people I was with were threatening to take my SSDI. Would I have to deal with them again? I had, too, been disappointed by them when, as you may remember, I meant to apply to City College of San Francisco and they said they'd help/encourage me with the applying - and then they didn't .
On a plus side, there is some initiative on the San Francisco ballot this year that would greatly increase homeless spending - If it passes, of course, it wouldn't immediately affect things...But would it help me much? And would I be seen as too much of an " outsider-coming-back " if I did? Then again, I might still be listed as a San Francisco resident.
However, too, the Main Library downtown has some personnel that seem to dislike me, and little completely free computers anymore, IIRC...And I'd likely end up hanging around the sorta ucchhy Tenderloin and upper SOMA nabes, as I did before ..Then again, they're sort of " the old home " ...

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Most fast food places have healthy choice menus. Lots of very good salads, grilled chicken sandwiches, fruit cups etc. I don't care what you eat it's none of my damn business. But if you ate more of that kind of food you would probably lose a lot of weight. Both water and regular and take some strain off your back.

...There's actually few fast-food places in the KFC/Mickey D's sense in downtown SC.
Also, BTW, though I'd planned to vote...I don't know if I will be out of the hospital and can do that this coming Tuesday .

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

You really must exercise your right to vote if at all physically possible.

Camping stoves are small and portable by design. Im not suggesting you lug around a kitchen range fss. Also social workers can not confiscate your money thats illegal.

I don't know whether this will help you with the cooking problem.

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CalFresh Restaurant Meals Program

Elderly, disabled or homeless CalFresh customers may purchase meals at various San Francisco restaurants.

If you are elderly, disabled, or homeless, you can use your CalFresh EBT card to purchase prepared food from restaurants registered with the CalFresh Restaurant Meals Program. Ask a CalFresh worker to code your EBT card so that it will be accepted for payment for hot meals at over 60 participating restaurants in San Francisco.

Download a list of all participating restaurants in San Francisco.
https://www.sfhsa.org/file/5961/download?token=ih9D9Uur

CalFresh Restaurant Meals Program - Elderly, disabled or homeless CalFresh customers may purchase meals at various San Francisco restaurants.

I get the vibe that AssP had an upper class upbringing and when from riches to rags when his parents died pretty much overnight.

...Thank youThoughtbeast
I am in Santa Cruz, not SF. If I went back to SF, aside from what I believe I said above here...I'd have to start all over again. And I have to take care of some things that require me having a steady mailing address, and I do have that in SC, the Homeless Services Center takes mail (if you have an ID) quite nicely.
Actually, I have pretty important things to take care of address-wise - Perhaps most of all, I lost the ATM card with which I access my SSDI some weeks ago ! This endless soap opera of going/not going to Patterson delayed me dealing with it, repeatedly - I'm not sure if I talked about that here:|. Even once I was bsvk + I was fully HL, and had myself just my various cheap model phones. I had to go to the library and print out the form that would get me the card back - apparently (and, it would seem, re-get me that restaurant allowance, which I had a couple hours years back in SF, though I didn't even know that was part of getting the card back til' I printed it) - and, I'm a cripple . Walking even the short distances involved takes a considerable amount of time...and I was carrying stuff, as well:( . And then, HM, I had to walk my crippled self to the main. Post Office here, including a walk up a handicapped ramp, to get just one stamped envelope, and I did, finally, mail it just before going to the hospital, where I am, as I said before, here now. I was sick enough to be admitted...More later.

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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

Thank you for your helpful input, Thoughtbeast.

I'm not American so don't know very much about the social support systems in California.

It's heartening to see when some members post something genuinely useful rather than pointless remarks.