When you arrive at the food bank 2 hours before closing, well in time, yet:
1. You get home with no fresh vegetable except potatoes. Again.
2. You get home with no fresh fruit. Again.
3. You are offered no fresh milk. Again.
4. The staff as a matter of course require you to hand over the food you selected so they can skim what they like before re-bagging it for you. Again.
5. You get home lacking an entire plastic bag of food, including missing a can of fruit. Again.
6. Staff is too busy to serve you because they are on their cell getting their home deck refinishing arrangements made. Making you have to skip a station, because the line is backing up.
7. Other staff who defend such staff by stating that personal calls are allowed when no one is waiting. I guess I'm no one. I guess I wasn't waiting.
8. "Needy" pull up to the food bank in a late model luxury SUV.
9. "Needy" pull up with their hair and nails entirely professionally done.
10. Staff managers in high quality businesses suits at the end of the line with their arms folded across their chests, scold you for taking 2 boxes, even though the sign says to take two.
11. Staff manages one station by saying, "What would you like?" when they should know you can't see the variety they are offering, in a closed case, and you don't know how many items you are allowed.
12. Meat staff who says, "What kind of meat do you like?" Makes me want to say, "WHY ARE YOU ASKING WHAT KIND OF MEAT I LIKE. IS IT RELEVANT. DO YOU HAVE ALL SELECTIONS. WHAT IF I SAY FILET MIGNON. IF I SAY FISH DOES THAT MEAN I WON'T GET BEEF. IF I SAY BEEF DOES THAT MEAN I WON'T GET POULTRY. IF I SAY GROUND, WILL I GET LESS THAN IF I SAY CUT? I AM HERE FOR FOOD MOTHERFUCKER TELL ME WHAT YOU GOT OR SHUT UP AND LOAD THE CART."
13. Staff who won't tell you how many of an item you are allowed, and when you ask they say, "Well, there isn't really a number. There is some discretion at this station." Just makes me want to say, "I AM HERE FOR FOOD MOTHER FUCKER PUT THE FOOD IN MY CART I'LL TAKE IT ALL."
14. Staff makes you choose between 2 pork chops or 7lbs of chicken when the local paper just wrote that they have been getting loads of pork free from the feds since December.
15. Staff who doesn't re-load empty bins with the re-stock from under the table because they want to take the fresh re-stock home (pineapple).
16. Staff who tells you not to take as much as the sign says because that staff is too fat and lazy to re-stock for the next group of needy that comes after the hour break for re-stocking.
17. A federal government who does nothing to establish accountability and prevent graft.
18. Staff who load you up with boxes of "pizza" fresh out of the pizza parlor's work truck. It'd be kind of hard to commit graft here, you're thinking. I see the pizza coming off the trucks. And it was stated to be pizza. But after you carry it all up the stairs, it turns out all the toppings were eaten off or scraped off in transit.
19. Food banks that promise 3-5 days' food but you come away with 8oz protein in any form, and food for less than 2 days.
20. Food bank systems that offer special food give aways yet do not advertise them nor send emails.
21. Staff or someone like staff pulling up in the parking lot for the needy, not the staff lot, in new, luxury SUVS. I KNOW YOU OWN AN OLD CAR. DRIVE IT HERE MOTHER FUCKER AND QUIT FLAUNTING YOUR PRIVILEGED STATUS.
22. Staff that actually says you can't take much food because they are taking what's left to a private, personal event.
