Well I have been working very hard on another site or two thinking I was helping people. People who post they have no money and want money for food until next month or they have 7 kids who have had nothing but crackers for a week. I have been sending them links to food banks, calling churches in their areas and doing everything possible to make sure they have food, electricity, whatever they are asking for. Well tonight I got my hand slapped. It seems if someone is wishing for $100 for food you are simply to give them the money or wish them luck and not offer any kind of assistance in feeding them. If they say their mom is sick and the only phone in the house is their 4G IPhone and it broke, you are not supposed to suggest a free safelink phone to keep mom safe until they can replace their phone. It is insulting to tell them of agencies that may help them fix or give them a car if they ask for $900 to replace the transmission in their 1986 truck. I give up! I don't think it is insulting to tell someone where they can get help in their own town. One lady said her child had not eaten all day. I found a church 2 miles from her home who offered to take her a free box of Angel Food. Enough food to feed her and her child good hot meals for 2 weeks! But I insulted her, because what she wished for was for someone to BUY her and her child a Pizza Hut pizza and have it delivered! I feel like I just fell out of the tornado and landed in Oz. I have children - lets see, pizza tonight on someone elses dime or food to keep you fed for two weeks on someone elses dime - either delivered right to your door. And I'm the one who was wrong? Okay. I will stop fussing now. I am just glad that I have better sense when it comes to feeding my kids and/or I am not so stupid that I think anyone buys that we are starving and a pizza tonight will make it all okay!
