Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-26011836-20161210184326/@comment-26011836-20161231214626

You got most of that right. The guy in the orange shirt is implied to be a homeless guy and he's based on an actual encounter I had with a guy who was... well... let's just say coo coo for Cocoa Puffs. So I could replace a couple of the "thought" parts with the synonyms you mentioned.