{"id":2523,"date":"2008-03-22T22:50:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T06:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2523"},"modified":"2008-03-23T20:59:28","modified_gmt":"2008-03-24T04:59:28","slug":"are-you-homeless-mentally-ill-or-deranged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=2523","title":{"rendered":"‘Are You Homeless, Mentally Ill Or Deranged?’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday afternoon, a friend of mine was taking a nap in her crowded car at the LA Public Library on Overland — Rancho Park.<\/p>\n

A strange man (a high school AP English teacher) approached. "Are you OK?" he asked.<\/p>\n

"I’m taking a nap," she said.<\/p>\n

She scowled.<\/p>\n

He came back later. "You look like either you’re homeless, mentally ill or deranged?"<\/p>\n

"He has you on all three," I said later.<\/p>\n

She replied to the stranger: "No! I’m converting to Judaism. I went to synagogue earlier."<\/p>\n

They ended up exchanging phone numbers.<\/p>\n

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