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- The Urine Pit
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- The Urine Pit mere feet from the commerce and recreation taking place on
- the 16th Street Mall, it is a dark and foreboding place. During the
- daylight hours, it is populated primarily by skatepunks, who show how
- different they are by trying to look and act as much like each other as
- possible. At dusk, a transformation begins, and by nightfall, The Urine
- Pit becomes home to various forms of dregs. Mostly young, all abusing the
- drug (or drugs) of their choice, and all completely hopeless and burnt
- out. It is not a hangout, or meeting place, so much as it is an actual
- home. The Urine Pit reeks of urine, thus the name. It's nocturnal
- residents (dubbed the UrineKids) have chosen to live among their own
- waste. The Urine Pit is the length of a city block, alongside a highrise
- building. It is sunken, below street-level, and lined with trees,
- fountains, and benches. During the day, it is a nice place to look at.
- At night, the trees become shelter, and the benches become beds. The
- UrineKids tend to break off into small groups (perhaps the group they
- associate with defines the drug that they are currently using?), but they
- all seem to know each other. In an area that is only a block long, they
- have created entire "neighborhoods", each with its own distinct (albeit
- quite similar) personality. Wandering into the wrong "neighborhood" will
- likely result in a verbal confrontation, and (if the participants are able
- to muster enough coordination) quite possibly a physical fight. Strangers
- are not welcome in the Urine Pit, and the UrineKids make it known to
- outsiders that their presence it not desired. Most trespassers in the
- Urine Pit are people leaving the Mall area, and the taunts of the
- UrineKids are enough to persuade them to find another route to their
- destination. But their taunts are not really serious. They are just a
- result of the UrineKids not being able to communicate in a manner more
- understandable to most humans that inhabit this planet. And their threats
- are empty, as well. UrineKids have a nearly universal reaction to
- strangers that actually try to talk to them. First, confusion and
- suspicion. They wonder why would somebody actually want to talk to them
- (a valid question, I admit). This stage passes rather quickly,
- surprisingly quickly in fact. The stranger is then regaled with the life
- story of that particular UrineKid, and the stories are nearly universal as
- well. Physical abuse, various addictions, and general mistreatment by
- society as a whole. The UrineKids have escaped from bad environments,
- ostensibly created by others, and managed to create a new environment for
- themselves that is even worse than the one they left behind. And they
- will not escape from this one, for this is where they have put themselves.
- This is where they want to be. I don't know how the UrineKids feed
- themselves, or how they clothe themselves, or how they buy their drugs.
- But they do, and they will do nothing else until their last breath passes
- from their lungs. UrineKids can't die, because they aren't really alive.
- They merely exist, and when one goes, another will be there to take his or
- her place. Nobody will notice this occurrence, because they are generic,
- they are very much the same. Perhaps there is a glimmer of hope in the
- fact that the UrineKids are so willing, in fact eager, to tell their
- stories, to be heard. Perhaps they are looking for someone who will
- understand, and will be able to help them. Or, they may be looking for
- empty pity, for they surely pity themselves. But none of the UrineKids
- asked for anything, not even spare change. In fact, they were quite
- generous with their own cigarettes, glad to share a smoke with somebody
- who would listen to them for five minutes. One of them mentioned respect.
- He didn't know why we were talking to him, but he thought it showed that
- we respected him, and he respected us for that. No. His drugged-out mind
- would not have been able to realize that unless you respect yourself, it
- is simply not possible for others to respect you. But it interesting that
- it was so important to him that he be given some respect. Somewhere
- within himself, he actually believed that he posses some quality that
- merits respect. Perhaps, somewhere within himself, he actually does
- possess some worthy quality, but that quality will never see the light of
- day. It is unfortunate that the UrineKids were somehow created, at least
- in part, by other people, yet it remains up to them to find a way out of
- the Pit. But they simply don't know how, nor is it likely that they will
- ever learn how, for they do not care. The only way to eradicate the
- UrineKids is to stop making new ones. Judging from the number residents
- at the Urine Pit, there is no shortage of UrineKids, so it should not be
- difficult to find a UrineKid in the making in your very own neighborhood.
- Step in, and see if you can't find a way to stop them from growing into a
- full-fledged UrineKid. You should get a certain amount of satisfaction
- from helping save a life. If not that, at least you can take pride in
- knowing you kept the stench in the Pit from getting worse.
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