Posted on 09/10/2014 10:20:01 AM PDT by Sparklite
That’s how I found myself, one dreary day when my Honda wouldn’t start, in my husband’s Mercedes at the WIC office. I parked gingerly over one of the many potholes, shut off the purring engine and locked it, then walked briskly to the door — head held high and not looking in either direction.
To this day, it is the single most embarrassing thing I’ve ever done.
No one spoke to me, but they did stare. Mouths agape, the poverty-stricken mothers struggling with infant car seats, paperwork and their toddlers never took their eyes off me, the tall blond girl, walking with purpose on heels from her Mercedes to their grungy den.
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The people inside the building never saw the Mercedes. They saw a blond white woman.
I simply don’t believe this story.
Also, what’s her point?
Her circumstance is hardly what the majority of people who use those things use it for. Also she did exactly what is intended, it held her over while they needed it and recovered.
That is hardly life long dependance which is people’s problems with it.
This is an old article. Why did you post it as 09/10/2014?
It says July 8. And I think that’s last year. Or the year before.
Belongs in chat.
I remember a time when one was embarrassed to have someone else buying their food for them. But what once was an embarrassment is now an expectation.
It's bad enough that I now have to pay 40% more for groceries because my hard-earned dollars are now competing with EBT cards for the same amount of groceries. But the maddening part is that it is actually 'my dollars' that my dollars are competing against since it was my taxes that are on the EBT cards.
Where I live, you can have an income of 40K annually and qualify for WIC
Well, the truly shameless aren't easily embarrassed.
I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps
Wash Compost ^ | July 8, 2014 | Darlena Cunha
Posted on Tuesday, July 08, 2014 4:00:48 PM by ETL 2
Sara Bareilles played softly through the surround-sound speakers of my husband’s 2003 Mercedes Kompressor as I sat idling at a light. I’d never been to this church before, but I could see it from where I was, across from an old park, abandoned in the chilly September air. The clouds hung low as I pulled the sleek, pewter machine into the lot. But I wasn’t going to pray or attend services. I was picking up food stamps.
Even then, I couldn’t quite believe it. This wasn’t supposed to happen to people like me.
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Worth all of about $3,500. Certainly she can get more than that for the Mercedes.
It’s really hard to find sympathy for a woman who got pregnant while still single and working a $25,000 a year job, who admits that she wasn’t sure she wanted to “work as hard” as twins would require.
Maybe you shouldn’t have bought a house that costs a quarter of a mil. Ya think??
“It’s weird - just looked and URL has
2014/09/10
in it...”
What is weird?
Look again at the URL
Compost editors are mixing up their stories to their links.
I looked for an article date and couldn’t find one. Now I see it in the URL. Oh, well, just shoot me.
As my wife says, reliability is the greatest luxury. That’s why three of our family vehicles are Hondas and the fourth (mine) is a Toyota.
Besides, the maintenance on a Mercedes is a killer financially.
Kept a reliable paid off car? Check. Didn’t become dependent on the welfare state, rather used it as a short-term safety net? Check. I have no issue with this woman’s actions. Her politics? Doubt we’d get along on that score.
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