I will never forget going into a winn dixie to buy some peanut butter and oatmeal to feed the family. There was a 400 pound "lady" dressed in some kind of leopard skinned dress in front of me with a whole food cart filled with steak and pork chops and another cart fill with all her other stuff. She paid for it all with food stamps.
When I got outside I saw her loading her goodies into a new caddie. I was a young guy at the time and I just couldn't believe it.
What a story!
I remember seeing a large (I mean very overweight) family, no husband just mom and late teens and 20”s shopping with food stamps. they were all dress in leather jackets and nice clothes and shoes. Huge carts of food paid with food stamps but the cigarettes and beer were paid with cash. Loaded into a nice car as I remember. First time I ever saw any food stamps.
You said — “When I got outside I saw her loading her goodies into a new caddie. I was a young guy at the time and I just couldn’t believe it.”
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Yeah, the lady probably had about six kids at home, for one thing, and that gave her a lot of food stamps. She didn’t have a home and was living in public housing, for another thing. The guy whose car she was driving, wasn’t married to her, and the kids weren’t his, and also he was a drug dealer, just living in the public housing (off the “record”, as the public housing wouldn’t let him live there in the first place). That’s probably the “scenario” that you saw...