If I lined up for meals at a homeless shelter would I be asked to leave?

I heard it’s down right euphoric when you toss in some dehydration… :wink:

I suppose you can also visit the Hairy Christians too.

While the practice is reprehensible, and very few soup kitchens out there do not have that practice, there are those who are not mentally ill who would rather go hungry than put up with the preaching.

I know I have been hungry enough to pass out in a snow bank walking home. I did not die because a homeless person shook me awake after a while and talked me into buying some food with my last bit of money. He offered me some change he had, but I did not take it as I still had some coins left. I bought a big box of cookies for fifty cents; it was the most calories for the money at the store that was nearest, the only store in sight. He left after he made sure I went in the store and I never saw him again.

I was hungry then because I made the choice to pay rent rather than buy food, and I would not have listened to a sermon for food. I was careful after that to not be out of the house when I was that shaky. I was able to get out of my plight, and fortunate enough not to have children to worry about, but I can tell you as long as I was in my right mind, I would not have put up with preaching to get a meal.

Just how are you going to tell who is really hungry anyway? Shabby clothes do not mean an empty stomach nor do clean ones mean a full stomach. Would you deny a meal to someone like I was then? I’ve given perfectly nice clothes to charity. Clothes that I was giving because I gained weight, or clothes that just had a bad association to me, but were something I had liked until that association. I have also been given clothes that were far more expensive than I could afford on my own.