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Posted on 12/23/2005 12:12:02 PM PST by COBOL2Java
Merry Christmas to you too. Not all homeless people are those who refuse to work.
I can't stand watching anyone go through a fast food joint's dumpster. If I see someone doing that, I go into the store, buy one of the combo meals, take it out and give it to the person. What's five bucks to me?
A few years ago, My wife and I saw a guy going through a Taco Bell dumpster. He was next to a car with his wife and kids in it. They were all watching to see if he was finding anything.
Damn! I went up and asked him if he'd let me buy the family some food. He said that would be OK, so everyone piled out of the car, and we all went into the Taco Bell and they ordered what they wanted, at my insistence.
Turned out that the guy was on his way with his family to a town about 150 miles down the road to stay with family. His car had broken down and getting it fixed had taken every cent he had. He was out of gas and his family wasn't answering the phone.
So, when they finished eating, my wife and I bought him a tank of gasoline and he was on his way. I hate this kind of stuff happening.
So, if you're at the fast food joint this Christmas season, have a look. If you see someone there digging in a dumpster, do something, please!
Ashley Biggs would most surely get enlightened if Typhoid Mary was to work in the cafeteria of Loyola College.
Thanks for the thought. I will indeed!
Feed the homeless? Only the government is allowed to feed the homeless and heal the sick. More democrats rise to power that way.
Thanks!
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Then you probably don't mind it when food service workers don't wash their hands after using the bathroom?
They are handing out sandwiches that have been prepared elsewhere.
That won't work, you just can't get lawyers to stop bitching...
How sad.
I also knew a waiter years ago who saw the same in his upscale restaurant. He started collecting food from his own and other restaurants and from the supermarket delis in the neighborhood. After he got the routine perfected, doing it all on his won time and even doing a mini meals on wheels program, he had to shut it down.
The health implications are obvious so maybe nothing can be done but it is a shame.
There's one restaurant near me that pours bleach into the dumpsters to keep anyone from eating the food thrown out. I'm quite certain they aren't doing it out of worry about lawsuits. They just don't want bums hanging out back of their restaurant, I guess.
What I'd like to do, but can't afford, is to reserve a table for 12 or something like that, then go round up 12 homeless guys, take them INSIDE that restaurant and buy them all a meal.
Wonderful thing to do. :-)
Merry Christmas!
Requiring hot and cold running water is NOT ridiculous. Don't you stooges ever need to wash your hands? No? OK, excuse me, but I think I'll pass on that sandwich. And on just about everything else you have slammed together for people who might never know about your carelessness.
Wouldn't a hospital-sized pump bottle of waterless hand sanitizer do the trick? It isn't like there are restroom facilities outside. I'd assume the students would go inside the church to use their facilities if the need arose and presumably would wash their hands there. I guess the regs predate Purell.
Every single momentary human gesture is subject to "liability" and extortion from the legal "industry." Funny how the abortion industry seems to be the single exception to the rule.
Lawyers have scared off far too many good samaritans, charities, and good-will.
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