The Great Food Stamp Give-Away

(Blogging from my Mama’s house. I still have no power.)

I walk up to my son’s daycare and overhear his daycare workers talking to one of the parents.

“Girl! Everybody getting’em I’m SHOLL gone go down there and get me some foodstamps too!”

I laugh and shake my head. The buzz in the streets is that they are having a FOOD STAMP GIVE-AWAY to replace all the food you lost when your power was out.

“It’s ONE TIME ONLY!” The daycare worker says and looks at me. “Anybody can get’em! I’m gonna take me a chair and some snacks and I’m gonna be in that line by 5:00 and I’ll wait all day to get mine!”

“I don’t think I qualify,” I say to her.

“Yes you do! It’s FREE! EVERYBODY qualifies!” she says dramatically, sounding like a car salesman.

Well since my Mom is a Supervisor at the damn food stamp office I know that the rules are a little more strict than that, but I smile and say, “Hey, good luck.”

Starting tomorrow morning different community centers will hold makeshift foodstamp offices so that people can come out, wait in line and get foodstamps. Everyone thinks that you are automatically eligible and people are as excited about it as a kid waiting for Christmas. Well, not EVERYBODY. No one mentioned it at the upscale private school I work for, but as soon as I hit the inner city limits, it’s all the buzz.

I would love to get some free foodstamps, but I’m not gonna spend a whole day waiting in line for them.

So good luck to everyone else. I hope you’re eligible.

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This morning I saw a whole fleet of Florida Power and Light trucks heading toward my neighborhood. I ran home twice during the day to check on my place, still no lights.

~sigh~ I’m the only person I know personally that doesn’t have electricity yet.

Maybe tomorrow.