I lasted for just about 30 minutes, but then real life stopped my experiment with tolerating Saturday morning's cold weather and I had to take a friend, Brian, from my neighborhood to the hospital because he was in intense abdominal pain. I got home around 2PM and thought I was going to watch the SEC Championship, but then a different Bryan (Brian number two? UGA Bryan?). That Bryan asked me I could help him out because while he was in class taking a final exam, he was evicted and came home to all his stuff be strewn all over his front lawn with a lot of it missing/stolen.
He thought he could tough it out out and live on his porch for the final few days of the semester, but the cold weather was too much. Helping him took until well after the end of the SEC championship game because I needed to pick him up at UGA during the game and bring him to my house.
UGA Bryan: My age, junior at UGA, neighbor to my ex, raised by his dad. Kind of a loner, not a frat boy, more of a type B personality. Met him maybe 4 times and was out of options when he texted me.
Before he texted me UGA Police had arrived at his porch because his slumlord or someone called the police over him trespassing at the property because he had been sleeping on his porch and all Bryan wanted to do was keep an eye on his remaining stuff - that's why he was on his porch. Legally, his stuff was curtilage and people were allowed to take whatever was placed outside. Whatever is placed outside was available for one month and then the landlord could throw it out.
He thought he could tough it out on his porch through finals and then work over winter break to catch up on his rent and move on, but the police told him he had to leave or they'd arrest him. Food is thrown out.
Sadly, there wasn't much of his stuff left because so much was taken while he was taking his exams. What was left was thrown around, kicked around or whatever.
As far as Bryan knew, I was living in the dorm and had 2 extra bedrooms there and thought I was fairly well off financially because I visited my GF I always brought a lot of groceries far in excess of me staying at her place for a night or weekend and I/we invited him over to eat with us whenever we had a cookout which was almost always. His front yard was kind of my gf's backyard.
I transferred some money to his landlord to get the eviction lifted, but the landlord wasn't taking any call even though he was financially in the clear. Maybe the landlord was at or going to the SEC game? IDK.
There's a shuttle that runs between UGA and GT, so he'll be able to get to his remaining finals. I offered to lend him my car, but he didn't want to do that. Marc and I are done with our finals so I/we will drive him, but he insists he's okay with the shuttle and just being able to sleep inside, shower and eat was MORE than enough help from someone he doesn't know very well.
The whole ordeal really got to me though and has me thinking how close to being homeless so many people are; people that live paycheck to paycheck and how insufficient funds in an account leads comes with a financial penalty etc and it can spiral downwards in just a couple of days if they don't have parental support etc.
When we got back to my place he pretty much showered, ate and went to sleep. We washed his remaining clothes while he slept. After sleeping until around 1AM he saw that we had washed his clothes folded them and next those made a new pile of clothes we gave him.