Saw a woman tonight at the grocery buying two large boxes of TGIFriday frozen potato skins with her Ohio card (like food stamps but looks like a credit card so people don’t get stigmatized). Anyway, the other products she bought at the same time (Coke, batteries, etc.) weren’t covered under the card so she whipped out a 100 dollar bill to pay. I told my friend that I wish I could buy TGIFriday snacks, but we can’t afford them!
The “former honor student” with the 3 kids before 20 whose two career dreams before that were “paleontologist” and “singer” was pathetic on so many levels. It might have been nice to have a realistic career goal to fall back on in addition to not opening her legs so much.
Did you notice how Ann Curry wished so hard when she asked whether she ever had sex ed that the answer would be “no” but the girl said she had it? You could see what that question was setting up from a mile away. I guess she had the “how to” course rather than the pregnancy prevention series.
At least they weren’t picking on poor downtrodden southerners this time.
True story from around 1992.
I’m stone broke, working as a tradesman. Have a ghetto apartment and a paid for, barely operating vehicle.
Go to the grocery store with my weekly, perhaps $60 max grocery list. (This is before the net - I’d be much wiser with that food money now)
In front of me, mind you I’ve just busted ass for twelve hours, is an illegal alien, well dressed, with two shopping carts packed to the top with t-bones(I kid you not) and all manner of delicacies. He whips out his Food Stamp Card and strolls off to his late model SUV.
Yep, that was an early lesson for me.