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Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:06 pm
by thibodeaux
This is something I don't understand. Occasionally you hear about people volunteering in a soup kitchen that feeds homeless people.
Why? Why can't they make the homeless people do the work? I don't get it.
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:35 pm
by TheCatt
I'm guessing you've never done it before then.
Posted: Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:07 pm
by thibodeaux
Hell no. They can cook their own damn soup.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 2:35 am
by Leisher
thibodeaux wrote:Hell no. They can cook their own damn soup.
That made me laugh.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:09 am
by TheCatt
thibodeaux wrote:Hell no. They can cook their own damn soup.
Most of them cannot. It's really a sad place. Although, at the soup kitchen I volunteered at the most, one of the "volunteers" was one of the homeless. So, I guess he did.
You should volunteer sometime and see. Spend a few nights at a homeless shelter too, while you're at it.
Every time people talk about cutting out welfare or similar programs, I think of the people I met at the homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and other aid places I volunteered. Most of these people have nothing, in a way that almost none of us see daily.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 9:40 am
by thibodeaux
I have had enough experience taking care of helpless, useless people: I am raising two children.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:50 am
by Alhazad
The homeless tend to be better conversationalists.
Posted: Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:15 pm
by TheCatt
thibodeaux wrote:I have had enough experience taking care of helpless, useless people: I am raising two children.
Well, maybe some other day. I'd be more than happy to go with you.