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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” I drove my Mercedes to pick up food stamps”
Obviously, she didn’t understand the “optics” of it. ;^)