Oh, this was back in 95.
You’re lucky to have had that happen to you in Keene NH instead of someplace worse like NYC or Boston or even Maine. If you were homeless in Bangor, you’d never be able to find work. They’d have you coming and going. New York, you would be in a nasty shelter full of drunks and deviants and they wouldn’t care about you at all and its unlikely you’d find work there. Most of the jobs either go to people from elite families or illegal aliens. Then they got affirmative action businesses. You’d probably be working in Sbarro or Mcdonalds instead.