August 25, 2011
3. Newblog2011: 08/25/11 Broken glass in a bag in front of 26 Inman Street in Cambridge
There have been a couple of orange road cones in the parking lot of the apartment building at 26 Inman Street for a while. Inman Street is the street that I and a lot of other homeless women take to get to a day shelter in Cambridge.
Today, some time past 11:00 a.m., in front of the same parking lot, there was a handwritten sign taped to the light post that said:
“Free
Women’s Clothes
Please take
Everything is Clean”
There were a few garbage bags with clothes in them in front of the sign. Some of them were Old Navy brand. Many of them were stained and/or torn.
There was also a paper shopping bag that said “Whole Foods Market” on it. The only other color on the bag besides the brown of the paper was green, for all of the Whole Foods Market logo. The tops of the sides of the bag stayed together, so even though the bag wasn't taped or stapled shut, you had to open it to see what was in it.
In the bag were two large, broken pieces of glass. There was something else in the bag that was heavy and wrapped in plastic; I didn’t try to find out what it was. The pieces of glass weren't part of anything that had been placed there to give away and had been accidentally broken; they were heavy, broken pieces of glass with the broken edges of the glass pointing up. They were able to stand on their own with the broken edges pointing up; nothing was supporting them in the bag. Anyone who had put his or her hand in the bag without looking in it first could easily have been cut.
Copyright L. Kochman August 25, 2011 @ 12:40 p.m.
3. Newblog2011: 08/25/11 Broken glass in a bag in front of 26 Inman Street in Cambridge
There have been a couple of orange road cones in the parking lot of the apartment building at 26 Inman Street for a while. Inman Street is the street that I and a lot of other homeless women take to get to a day shelter in Cambridge.
Today, some time past 11:00 a.m., in front of the same parking lot, there was a handwritten sign taped to the light post that said:
“Free
Women’s Clothes
Please take
Everything is Clean”
There were a few garbage bags with clothes in them in front of the sign. Some of them were Old Navy brand. Many of them were stained and/or torn.
There was also a paper shopping bag that said “Whole Foods Market” on it. The only other color on the bag besides the brown of the paper was green, for all of the Whole Foods Market logo. The tops of the sides of the bag stayed together, so even though the bag wasn't taped or stapled shut, you had to open it to see what was in it.
In the bag were two large, broken pieces of glass. There was something else in the bag that was heavy and wrapped in plastic; I didn’t try to find out what it was. The pieces of glass weren't part of anything that had been placed there to give away and had been accidentally broken; they were heavy, broken pieces of glass with the broken edges of the glass pointing up. They were able to stand on their own with the broken edges pointing up; nothing was supporting them in the bag. Anyone who had put his or her hand in the bag without looking in it first could easily have been cut.
Copyright L. Kochman August 25, 2011 @ 12:40 p.m.