The Boston Homeless

A long time ago, last summer to be exact, I spent 8 weeks in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A word of warning to any who would ever think about either living or traveling there: venture far far away from the homeless. As my roommate and I were making our nightly run to the 7-11 down the street we began to be followed by a man of the strangest sorts. He was one of those types that you instantly know are going to follow you wherever you go until you make a purchase of some sort and immediately bombard you and ask you for that spare change. Anyways, we get to the 7-11 and we both make our purchases, the strange man choosing to remain outside of the store, and we prepare ourselves for the attack. As we walk out of the safety of the 7-11, prepared to defend our newly acquired change, the strange man approaches us, not to ask us for some spare change, but instead to defend his belief that some form of alien beings have chosen to reside in the sewers of Boston. His claim was that the horrid smell that was obviously from the subway and all of the trash and wastes floating around under the street, was really from the exhaust from the ships and alien motorbikes that these alien beings use as their transportation around the city. He didn't only stop with the smell from the sewers but he also went on to describe the lives they led under the streets and the communities that they have formed. Other than the fact that he failed to describe HOW these aliens got under the streets of Boston, it was quite the believable story. So actually, if you are looking for some interesting theories about the stench of the Boston sewers feel free to have a conversation with the homeless, you may just find the answer your looking for.