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r/ChoosingBeggars•
moration

I'll take $20 and dumb this free food I don't want

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My wife was out for a walk and came upon this woman coming from downtown area with a box full of food from the food pantry. The box has things like bottled water, rice, juice of some kind ... The woman hits her up for money and my wife says sure, "I'll take $20" the woman says. My wife gives her $2.

My wife walks the same route the next day. The box of food is tossed to the side with the rice and water still in it.

Posted Jun 1, 2021, 1:54 PM UTC

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RoyallyOakie•

Rice and water are probably the most important things in the box.

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morationOP•

I know. My wife is Asian too so it was a big WTF for her.

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Sithlordandsavior•

Rice is an excellent meal if you have the slightest idea how to season it at all.

Lazy buggers. Turning down free rice.

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DoromaSkarov•

One time I found an anti chooser beggar.

An homeless man was nicely and kindly begging in front of a shop. He asked me for tuna or other fish can, if it was not too expensive for me. He was so nice that I bought him twos cans orange juice, bread and banana. He was very grateful, but give me back bananas because he would not be able to eat it quickly enough and bananas would crush in her backpack.

He was so grateful, kind, didn’t want to spoil any food.

Incredible.

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Outofworkflygirl•

Covid hit our neighborhood HARD and put a LOT of people out of work and so food pantries have relaxed their policies and ramped up their services. Churches as well. We go once every 2 weeks.

Sadly, if you go into a lot of corner stores, you will see the same food that was turning up in food boxes on the shelves for sale. The store owners are giving people pennies on the dollar for it just so those people can turn around and trade it for alcohol and cigarillos.

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Zoreb1•

The rice and water should still be good. Worth more than $2. Next time wife sees CB ask her to give the unwanted items for the $2.

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spiderdue•

Tsk. What a shame. (Also, it's not too late to fix the spelling of "dump".)

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morationOP•

Not in the tile though :-/

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HilltopSlim614•

Not too late to fix the spelling of title

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MassiveStrangerNow•

Not too late to add a period to the end of the sentence.

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spiderdue•

One updoot for all of you.

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KimSaysHiiI can give you exposure•

And this is why America is In a hunger crisis despite there being more than enough food for everyone, YOU WASTE IT ALL while some people can't even afford good food. Look at all the donut storea THROWING OUT FOOD EVERYDAY. one day we won't even be able to grow crops for donuts, and then what. I'm tired of this planet man.

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THATASSH0LE•

Fuck that. I’m a donut farmer. Crops look good this year.

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NoeticSkeptic•

You must be assuming this is in America since the U.S. is the only place where the poor are helped by food pantries (normally called food banks in the parts of the US I have lived) and churches.

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ashtar123•

Other countries have food banks too but aight

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Technical_Carrot1642•

Just stopping by to watch this comment.

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