For many years bums have felt like it's permissible for them to hang out all day at fast food restaurants like McDonalds, Burger King, and Taco Bell. Fast food employees usually won't tell a bum to get the hell out of the restaurant like you'd see at almost every nicer sit-down restaurant. These abundant and inexpensive chain restaurants are viewed by people as being kind of like public rest stops, and bums take this to the extreme.
Years ago, fast food restaurants were much more apt to leave things like napkin dispensers, salt and pepper shakers, and ketchup packets out for customers to take. Soda fountains were often available, and public bathrooms would always be available to the customers. Scummy people (prime example: homeless people) abuse these free amenities by taking tons of condiments and napkins, filling up pre-owned thermoses with soda from the soda fountain, and trashing the bathrooms. As a result, fast food restaurants are forced to move all condiments and napkins behind the counter, disable publicly accessible soda fountains (e.g. McDonalds on Hollywood Blvd), and lock the bathroom doors. Next time you are in a fast food restaurant take a look at what amenities are available to you, and it will often correlate with how nice the town is that you are in. Moving napkins and condiments behind the counter is becoming more and more common, but you can usually tell a place is ghetto when they have a token operated bathroom or have to buzz you in.
Give a yard, bums will take a mile. Everyone had it good, but trashy people like bums had to abuse the fast food system and now we all must suffer for it.
