Aaron Chapman describes hitting rock bottom: scrounging his truck for change to buy gas, using a coupon for diapers, then running into a former coworker who offered to take him to dinner. Too ashamed to accept, he walked away.
So I rummaged through my truck to hoping to find a lost dollar. I found some coins. I locked the doors and I started walking that parking lot. What seemed like a couple of hours had passed. I collected enough change to get 2 gallons of gas. I had the ability to get enough of it to exchange that time for that gas. I went inside. I found those. Those diapers. I stood in line with that one item to go check out with a damn coupon. Just. It seemed like another punch to the face. And as I'm walking out with my head down, avoiding all eye contact, I heard my name being called. And I turned see a guy that I used to work with when I was running heavy equipment. He ran the office. I was one of the guys who ran one of the crews. He asked me how things were. I explained a little bit of what I just explained to you guys, but very, very. I glazed off it really, really quickly because I didn't want to share where I was at. It was embarrassed. He said, let's go to dinner. I told him I did. I can't afford to.
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