I had to dismantle a large cardboard structure today in the little area between the stairs and a cement wall at my work.  As some of you may know, I’ve occasionally had to wake people up in the morning who are sleeping around the stairs.  It really is a nice little spot, warm and sheltered, but it’s starting to get a little out of hand.  It used to be one guy, and I guess he’s a normal homeless guy, a ‘regular’ who wakes up promptly and is polite.  Many nearby businesses have been tagged with spray paint, but our building has been spared largely due to the presence of our sleeping vagabond.  However, this fellow has recently allowed meth addict friends to shack up with him, and this has started to get creepy.  They sleep behind mounds of cardboard so that, for a little while, I didn’t even notice them in the morning.  Today they left a bag of stale bread in the parking lot which was attracting a huge amount of birds.  The owner’s begged me to don gloves and go out and remove the bread and put the cardboard out for recycling.  What the hell…I’m trying to score points at work and the situation is becoming a bit of health hazard.  I actually didn’t find anything too incriminating in the cardboard, just lot’s of cigarrette butts and garbage.  I have to admit: I felt bad when I threw a toothbrush away.