Two friends -- one a Brewers fan and one a Phillies fan -- made a bet on whose team would have the better season in 2007. Clearly the Phillies fan won the bet. But since these guys somehow got bored of standard American currency, it took until late June for him to collect.
That's how long it took Chris Jollay, the 36 year old Brewers fan you see above, to get enough vacation saved up at his new job so he could spend the week being homeless. That's right. He lost a bet and had to go homeless.
If Jollay won, then the single man would get to live the domestic life. Jollay was the best man at Christman's wedding.
"I would have gotten to move in with [Christman's] wife. She'd have to cook me dinner and I'd go to her slumber parties and [Christman would] move into my place," Jollay says.
Of course, Jollay did not win, and instead spent the week roaming about the District of Colombia, pretending to be a homeless person. Which, really, is far more enthralling and relaxing than spending your one week of vacation sipping margs on a beach somewhere. Fortunately for us, it was all recorded by his friend, Steve Heckman, over at his website.
According to the bet, Jollay was allowed to carry one bag of items. Christman approved all of the items. Jollay says, he carried 12 power bars and 100-calorie snacks, a disposable camera, $20 dollars, contact lens, a marker and pen, and a bottle of Jack Daniels.And he shoved all this -- plus two Arabic language tapes -- into a Pokeman backpack. In other words, Jollay's not the smartest would-be homeless man. If I were making a list of things to take with me on a homeless expedition, "Pokeman backpack" and "Arabic language tapes" would be the last things. (What? It's not my fault people are stereotypical.)
"I brought a big bottle of that, just to pass the time. Especially when it was cold...made the nights go faster."
Of course, I wouldn't agree to a bet that involved me going homeless if I lost and ending up married (presumably sans the relations) if I "won" in the first place, but that's me.
