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In reply to the discussion: I'd like a minute to talk about food .. in light of the Blue Apron thread [View all]haele
(13,841 posts)I had just got off work to do some shopping (so I was still dressed in shipyard clothes), and the line was long. An 30-something woman had carefully split her purchases - buying food stamp items for what looked like an older person's diet, and then a larger purchase of more regular groceries, including candy and sodas, with cash. A bottle-blond woman two shoppers behind her was telling her kids rather loudly that "it was wrong for someone that had to use food stamps to also buy things in cash - that woman is cheating all of us - if she has cash, she shouldn't need food stamps."
I said rather quiet so her kids and others wouldn't hear very well "Excuse me, but you don't know what's going on with anyone who has food stamps, so please keep your comments about other people private before you make yourself look like a bully in public." Which of course escalated the issue. The woman glared at me and raised her voice "Mind your own business, bitch, and don't tell me what I can say".
Everyone stopped and looked at us.
I got red and told her "No - I shop every month for my housebound neighbor on food stamps - and I buy her treats to make her life bearable out of my own money along with my own groceries. And if anyone thinks I'm a welfare cheat because I'm being a good Christian and helping my neighbor who has a hard time getting around, then they're a nasty-minded snob who deserved to have their ass jumped on. You don't know what is going on with anyone using food stamps, so public complaints about people using food stamps make you look mean - in front of your kids and everyone else here. And you can go on with the rest of your afternoon cursing about this because I've said what I had to and it's over."
She damn near ran me over with her cart going to the line a couple registers over, but I felt it was worth it, and I'd like to think most of the other people behind me in line thought it was worth it. I can handle public embarrassment for what I think is a good cause. Plus, it made the line shorter by a good 5 - 10 minutes - her cart was overflowing with pantry items and packaged foods and she was constantly being distracted by her kids.
People like that are never happy unless they're making other people look small.
Haele
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