Money

Something I'll never understand about people who criticize the poor. They have no concept of having no money!

When I said the free food pantry was a 3 mile walk from my house, a woman at church asked, "can't you take the bus?" Um, if I had a dollar for the bus, I'd just walk up to Wendy's 3 blocks away for a hamburger!

Another woman asks why, after a friend did so much for me, I didn't send her a bunch of my pumpkin candy, for free, for her to give to her office mates. Well, shipping heavy pumpkin candy for an office full of people would cost a minimum of ten dollars, for one thing. For another, they have JOBS; they could BUY my pumpkin candy, which is the POINT! Besides, I reimbursed her support by slipping light-weight, expensive items I've found in the trash with her crafts purchase.

Why don't I go to school for job training? And live, where? A cardboard box under the interstate?

I have to relate to people who piss away more on fast food in a month than I do for four months' groceries. They just CAN'T or WON'T see the difference! It's so frustrating.

I explain and explain, repeating myself until I wonder if anybody in this country has any reading comprehension left, and I'm expected to explain it again! Gimme a break! LOL

People think they have the right to criticize the most intimate aspects of my life because of my income: I should dye my hair, so the grey doesn't show; I should wear better looking shoes; I should throw out all my art supplies and tools, so my apartment won't look "so cluttered." I should, I should....

Hair dye costs money; my shoes come out of the trash; my art supplies and tools are how I earn money.

It's pretty freaky.