Soup Kitchen Volunteering

Post by **thibodeaux** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:06 pm

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.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 7:35 pm

I'm guessing you've never done it before then.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Sat Nov 12, 2011 10:07 pm

Hell no. They can cook their own damn soup.

Post by **Leisher** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 2:35 am

thibodeaux wrote:Hell no. They can cook their own damn soup.

That made me laugh.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 8:09 am

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.

Post by **thibodeaux** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 9:40 am

I have had enough experience taking care of helpless, useless people: I am raising two children.

Alhazad · Post by **Alhazad** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 11:50 am

The homeless tend to be better conversationalists.

Post by **TheCatt** » Sun Nov 13, 2011 12:15 pm

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.