A man named Victor Hubbard had been standing on the same street corner for three years until Ginger Jones Sprouse finally decided to step in and learn more about him. The Texas woman learned that the man in his 30s was homeless and suffering from mental health issues. The heartbreaking reason he was always waiting at the same corner was because he was dropped off at that spot by his mother and told to wait for her to return. She never came.
“He stands and looks, taps the pole, squints, dances, waves and sometimes just stares,” Sprouse wrote in a 2017 GoFundMe page. “He is a sweet, gentle man who happens to be mentally ill. If you have ever heard the term ‘falling through the cracks,’ he is the definition.” Sprouse would drive by Victor’s street corner in Clear Lake, Texas, four different times a day on her way to work at the Art of the Meal. Soon the two struck up a friendship.
“Police, fire and local city mental health resources know of him. Know him very well in fact. He has family in the area that declined to help him. It is told his mother dropped him on the corner and told him to wait for her to come back. He believed her. So he waits and waits and waits,” she continued on the website. She realized she needed some more helping hands to ease Victor’s struggles. “So we, as a community, are coming together to find him the mental health help he needs. That is priority one. Once we get him stable in that regard, it is my desire to see him in a peaceful home with friends to support him and even a job. If you want to meet someone who is eternally optimistic, positive and humble go visit him. He will out-bless you every time,” she added…