Okay...so my new name is Super Karen. :D :D :D

😔😔😔 I have just HAD the last nerve rubbed the wrong way by a horribly rude woman over at the food pantry, so...I wrote a letter to the Director. I am now almost all Karened out.

Those of you who know me, know that I have been trying to get food boxes for people who live in my building who are living with food risk.

If the people who live here in my building HAD cars, they would drive over to the food pantry, pick up their own food, and no one would ever give them a problem. They would just receive food, without the rudeness.

We have disabled people living here, people whose income is below the poverty line, and...in general people who don't have enough food. But they can't drive over to the food pantry. It's quite a drive.

This woman has MOCKED me for calling in special diet requests on food orders, she has shorted us time and time again, forcing me to drive back on the following day when there are no strong backs to pick up the heavy boxes, just me.

And this time, she told the guys from my church who pick up the food that we should not RELY on it.

I've had it. We are not beggars who need to be kicked before we are allowed to have our bread. We are good people, trying to help others who REALLY need help.

I hope and pray that the Director has some influence, and can give this rude, rude woman a dope slap.

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Heartlander · 80-89, M

Little things that go unnoticed by most of us are sometimes huge obstacles to marginalized or compromised people and can have crushing impact on them and undermine their sense of well being. Rude people who act like they are doing poor or handicapped people people a big favor and think it's their job to dish out negativity really need to go work elsewhere, even if they are volunteers working for free.

Transportation can be a huge issue for people without automobiles and/or no go-fers to go to the store for them. Like how much food can an elderly person carry if they have to walk back and forth in all kinds of weather to a supermarket that's 10 blocks away? How much food could even a young person handle on that 10 block trip if they also had to carry a toddler? Imagine all that with a physical handicap?

God bless you for your efforts to be the connector. I've had enough insight to understand the challenges.

A personal experience had me running an outreach program in a housing project about a dozen years ago. Our first presentation program was scheduled for like a Sunday afternoon. The day before the very same facility had a visit by Santa Clause. Attendance for Santa's appearance was in excess of a thousand. For our program, we had a crowd of 11. We pondered that imbalance for quite a while. What did Santa have that we didn't? Santa arrived with a bag of cheap plastic toys, but we had a message that would possibly add years to their lives. So why was Santa a bigger draw than us? Easy! Santa delivered hope and love. It wasn't the cheap plastic toys. Santa made people feel good, feel important, feel loved. Over the next few months we managed to swell our attendance to a couple of hundred. How? We did what Santa did. We shrouded our pitch in love and hope.