bums, in general

i was thinking about my experiences with bums (whether money or cigarettes).
almost all have been middle-aged.
approximately 60% white, 40% black.
but only one female (cigarette)....
other than that, i have never encountered a female bum (just people on the street, not counting those in bars).
now, i can think of all kinds of reasons for this, and my experience is less than someone who has lived in a major city all her life...
but i find it interesting.

thoughts? experiences with female bums?

They can "give services" in exchange for whatever they need.

I lived in San Francisco for 5 years. TWICE I've seen people relieve themselves in public. TWICE it was a woman doing it whilst standing up. I'm sure it was just my "luck".

The first time, I had to hop over a woman's stream on the sidewalk as I walked home one night.

The other incident- I was walking down New Montgomery dressed in my best suit, reveling in my power as a Sony Exec. when suddenly a woman caught my attention.
She calmly walked up the Wells Fargo bank, dropped trough, and sprayed diarrhea all over the walls. My associate Clintelle remarked "GodDAMN bitch!".
She replied "Hey come on", as if we were assholes for calling her out on her...lack of manners.

I've seen a fair amount of female bums in Philly, but still most are men. I met one on south street one day who was beautifully dirty. I was on a hallicugenic drug so i gave her ten bucks and told her to buy some cheeseburgers. damn she was beautiful, like a really dirty angel.

i could sure use that ten bucks now though.

Ann Arbor is quite the bum frienly town, so we see our share. At one point I had much sympathy...

... then someone pooped on my porch.

I"m assuming it was not a disgruntled ex, as some theorize, and have long ago disgarded most of my sympathies along with the little pile of shit.

-mk

I don't know to many female bums that aren't whores, but I also don't sell crack.
I remember when I was a kid me and my friends used to ride our bikes to the train tracks to throw rocks at the trains and flatten pennies and moon the conductors and shit. One day we had a bunch of water balloons with us and there was this fucked up looking bum. Like a really dirty Jim Morrison. He was just sitting there so I threw a water balloon at him from about twenty feet away. He didn't even moved acccept to look at his leg where the water balloon had exploded. My friends laughed, but I actually felt kind of bad. Then later I thought about it and decided that waterballoon I threw had probably made that dirtyass bum cleaner than he'd been in years and he was most likely dehydrated from all the booze. So actually I did a good thing.

I get female bums almost as much as male ones.

The only bum I'll give a buck.

One of my best friends is a female bum...not in the literal sense but a bum none the less...I gotta get new friends

There are a couple of beggars that work the campus at PSU regularly. One of them is pretty nicely dressed for a vagabond.

I stopped handing out change after my freshman year.