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Note: While it’s true that many things are based on actual events, the characters contained within this strip are not meant to be direct analogs for actual people. They are not based off of people living, dead, or undead and any resemblance is coincidental. Nor are they based off of Ferrets.
Because that would be weird.
I just assume they have gym membership at someplace so that’s how they showered. Or they know some people who have been kind to let them shower at their places.
A number of storage places are also set up near truck stops
So, um, how have they been showering?
I work in tech in the San Jose area. Several buildings have shower facilities and the onsite cafeteria serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Around two years ago, I was scouring Craigslist for a new place. My rent was going up from obnoxious to obscene and I really could only afford “unreasonable” anyway. I had to be out by the end of the month and wasn’t finding anything. I seriously considered moving most of my stuff to storage and sleeping either at the storage place or in a rarely-used storage room in the lab I worked at. It didn’t come to that, but I considered it.