When pull of you D&G sun glasses and place them on the top of your head. When you pull up your VS Pink sweatpants and fix your Uggs. When you have a Coach or Luis Vuitton bag that is hanging from your arm. When you tee shirt says Armani Exchange. Then when you pull out your Prada wallet and hand me your food stamps card because it doesn’t swipe correctly.
I AM JUDGING YOU.
You are what is wrong with this world.
-Cashiers.
This. So much. When I worked at a grocery store, this always pissed me off. Hell. I just posted about it. I’m sorry but if you can afford all that brand shit then you can afford to buy your own food. Now. I understand some people need EBT. But more often than not, the people that came into my line were working the system.
Having been the well dressed person with food stamps? No working the system or fraud was required. Before my divorce I had nice things courtesy of being a two income household. Even then, I shopped at TJ Maxx, Marshall’s, & Filene’s Basement because I liked nice things, but I didn’t like high prices. My ex cheated on me & beat me up so I filed for divorce & moved into my own apartment with my son. I lost my job, so I finally used my GI Bill to go to college. Single parenting while a full time student isn’t easy. When my ex stopped paying child support I moved into a cheap apartment in the projects, & I applied for assistance. My son has food allergies, so I continued buying the specific things that he can eat. They’re more expensive than average, but I wasn’t going to risk his health for someone else’s sensibilities. You don’t know our stories from what you see at the register. Don’t pretend you do, just because it makes you feel better about being a bigot.
Assholes who tell you, you don’t deserve nice things or deserve to treat yourself/have someone else treat you to nice things because you’re on foodstamps should shut all the way the fuck up.
Cause rich people who work careers that screw basically everyone else over are so much more deserving of nice stuff. Shut the fuck up with this, I know all about your life bullshit just by looking at someone’s clothing labels or how they pay for their food. This obsession where people’s stuff and money comes from is bullshit and we know it comes from more than just some classist bullshit but some scary ass notion of monitoring anyone outside of the “deserving” group.
Can we just talk about how easy it is to get fake & discounted brand name products? I definitely grew up on food stamps but I still have a “Luis Vitton” and “Fendi” back from High School that I got off the side of the street, or in sketchy stores, from friends or family members either giving me gifts or trying to make money.
Why? Because even though I was poor I still liked to have nice things, and NEWSFLASH – you can get anything cheap these days. All this does is explain why poor people go out of their way to have nice things – since apparently we’re still judging people by the labels they wear these days. I’d rather someone thought I was wealthy and scamming the system than look at me and know the extent of poverty my family was in.
It just seems like these cashiers are just mad because – how dare these low class food stamp people have nicer things than them! Apparently people on food stamps must walk around in burlap sacks to keep cashiers from being upset with them.
Today’s edition of “poor people don’t deserve nice things”