You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy!
Living in a phone booth. That’s Crazy!
If your home is 3 x 3 x 8, and your last name is not Houdini, then you’re crazy.
If the only art work that hangs on your wall rings and you can call your mommy when you’re scared, then you’re crazy.
If you live in a vertical coffin so small it makes a normal home feel like Montana, then you’re crazy.
DATELINE: DALIAN, China.
According to published reports, an unidentified man has lived in a telephone booth for 2 years. Guess what? He’s crazy!
We don’t know much about this man, but I’m pretty sure he is not claustrophobic. When he sleeps, he curls up like a cat on a pillow. He sticks his nose into his own armpit and breathes in deeply. No shirt no shoes no oxygen, no problem.
What city even has phone booths now-a-days? Lucky for this guy, China is old school. In Nashville, this guy’s living in a iphone box.
So why would someone live in a phone booth for two minutes, no less two years? That’s a helluva question.
“He wears old patched clothes, but he looks very clean,” said a janitor. “Quite often he checks his appearance in a mirror to tidy his moustache.”
Self grooming and maintenance is important, you know. Even for a phone booth lunatic.
A woman said the man talks to himself in the mirror but never talks to anyone. What would he say? “Hey idiot, why don’t you check yourself into the YMCA?”
I wonder if he makes phone calls? Does anyone call him? What’s his number?
Reports say, the phone booth is in a busy section of downtown. A community worker said people want to find his family and send him home but can’t help him if he never talks to anyone.
I have an idea. Call the police and have him removed from the phone booth. Take him to a shelter that has a sink and a toilet. Make him shave and bathe and check him for fungal issues.
Those cramped China nights can cause yeast to grow in places better left alone.
The St. Petersburg Times reports this obscure fact: The world record for living in a phone booth is a remarkable thirty days.
This guy has done that 10 times over, and 2 times that.
If you wanted to be a Guinness Book World Record Holder, you got it.
Now take a bath and get a room at the Y.
And that is crazy!