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From Oregon DMV site:

Acceptable Proofs of Age, Identity and Address

An applicant who is homeless may use a descriptive address of the location where he/she actually resides, e.g., "under the west end of the Burnside Bridge". The applicant must also provide a mailing address.

I suppose the same, "please, deliver all mail under the west end of the Burnside Bridge".

In fact, I was impressed that homeless people are taken care of. :)



There is a popular joke among linguists: "to ask a linguist how many languages he knows is like to ask a doctor how many diseases she has".

In May I visited my girlfriend's mother in California. She doesn't speak any English. I already went to bed, while she was finishing her conversation with other inhabitants of the house. She came to our room later, groping her way in darkness. I said:

"You can turn on the light, I am not sleeping."

She said "Chto?" (What?)

I thought that I said it too quietly, so she couldn't hear me, and repeated:

"You can turn on the light, I am not sleeping."

She said "Chto?" again, bended over me and gave me a strange look. Suddenly I realized that I was talking in English and started to laugh. I know her for almost 20 years, most of them in Russia. She would be the last person I would think to talk to in English, well, if I would think.

There was something strangely familiar in her look. Later I remembered that my mother used to look at me with the same concern when I was a child, and she suspected that I was sick.



   
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