Forum: General Stuff
Topic: Soup Kitchen Volunteering
started by: thibodeaux

Posted by thibodeaux on Nov. 12 2011,16:06
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 by TheCatt on Nov. 12 2011,16:35
I'm guessing you've never done it before then.
Posted by thibodeaux on Nov. 12 2011,19:07
Hell no. They can cook their own damn soup.
Posted by Leisher on Nov. 12 2011,23:35

(thibodeaux @ Nov. 12 2011,22:07)
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Hell no. They can cook their own damn soup.

That made me laugh.
Posted by TheCatt on Nov. 13 2011,05:09

(thibodeaux @ Nov. 12 2011,22:07)
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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 by thibodeaux on Nov. 13 2011,06:40
I have had enough experience taking care of helpless, useless people: I am raising two children.
Posted by Alhazad on Nov. 13 2011,08:50
The homeless tend to be better conversationalists.
Posted by TheCatt on Nov. 13 2011,09:15

(thibodeaux @ Nov. 13 2011,09:40)
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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.
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