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He put on his sunglasses to blind himself from the motion around him and time became stagnant as a traffic jam he was witnessing-the people finally oozing out of trapped busses and around halted vehicles like leaking oil . The hours passed somehow and again the park closed and he slept on its fringes with many others . The next morning taught him that breakfast could be waived if begging from the previous evening had not gotten him the twenty baht required for a meal but he needed to always keep some coins in his pockets so that he could go into a public bathroom . Around 2:00 sidewalk restaurant workers tended to need their own respite from drudgery and a barter arrangement of a meal for an hour 's work could sustain him and keep him from having to buy food . As non-preferable as it was , the police did not badger one if he washed away his rotting layers of stinking skin in the polluted canals or the Chao Phraya River so long as he entered and exited with his underwear on . The waters did give him a skin rash , after a few days of bathing in this manner , but this itch around his thighs was bearable . Lucrative ventures came every now and then when men wanted him .