rolling "bizarre cultural phenomena arising from the financial crisis" thread

(the anthropologists of the future will thank us)

I saw something on Good Morning America a few weeks ago where they were talking to a dude and his wife who lost their house, took the bed, bought a bunch of microwave dinners, and moved into the supply room of his office.

Then they talked to another dude who had gotten laid off from a bank and went to work shining shoes at the airport, but then he worked his way up and now after just a few months he owns six (!!!) shoeshine booths of his own! Rock on America!

personally I am convinced that lots of people losing houses + lots of stores closing due to lack of business = only a matter of time until people start squatting in abandoned shopping malls

in providence we move into malls when they're still open

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21100501/

I didn't even know shoeshiners still existed! I thought they'd gone extinct like 50 years ago.

They just stopped writing songs about them.