“There has been a person living out of a golf cart in and about Spanish Springs for a least five months and I guess that is OK. What happens when a few more homeless people start doing the same thing? I can’t believe I am the only one who has noticed this? How long will it be tolerated?” writes Village of La Reynalda resident Dennis Corrigan in a letter to Villages-News’s editors.
Lol. Maybe after seeing this person for five months that Corrigan might have approached and asked if they really are actually “living out of” it. Seems like a little bit of a stretch in practical terms considering that unfortunate folks who live out of cars, trucks, or vans tend do so because passenger vehicles are protected from the elements and roomy enough for an adult to sleep in.
Neither of which would seem to apply to the golf carts we’ve seen, even the souped up ones that are The Villages’ street vehicles, no doubt many of which never end up carrying a bag of clubs onto a course. But the fact that we even have to engage in speculative consideration speaks to overall weirdness and apparent atmosphere of alienation in the vast retirement community. Like how fucking hard is it to just ask around if you’re not going to ask the person themselves?