This morning I went to the food rescue at St. Demetrios Greek Orthodox Church on Fort Lowell. I arrived near its 8:00 opening, thinking there wouldn't be many people there, at least not at the start. Hoo boy, was I wrong! A crowded parking lot and a long line.
OK, then.
I gave the people in front of me and behind me a generous portion of space for their protection and mine. I brought gloves with me. Exact change ($12) so neither the intake guy nor I would have to handle any more bills than necessary. I inserted my paper "account" card into a plastic ID carrier so I could clean it later. Prepared to read aloud my card's number instead of expecting the intake guy to hold it so, again, neither of us would have to handle this stuff unnecessarily.
Waited in line. Did some stretches.
And you know what? When I arrived at the front of the line, I learned that someone way up ahead had paid for FORTY people behind him! Just to save you the math energy, that's almost 500 bucks!!! As each of of us approached, we had the option, of course, to continue paying forward or to accept gracefully the gift. I happily paid it forward because, damn, I still have work, I don't have a lot of bills, and I don't have young'n's at home.
The intake guy wore a mask and gloves, and the usual taking-down-of-the-card-numbers was in abeyance for this week.
I was grateful to bring home good vegetables for the coming week:
- Grape tomatoes
- Roma tomatoes
- Baby acorn squash
- Green beans
- A honeydew melon
- Mini red bell peppers
- English cucumbers
In other shopping news, the shelves are still bare of these items:
- Toilet paper
- Paper towels
- Bleach
- Hand sanitizer
- Gallon water jugs
- Eggs
In the event I come down with the crown, I laid in a supply of some symptom-relieving meds. As my liquid hand soap supply is running low, I'm transferring to bars of soap, and I bought some of those today.
For my comfort items on Survivor Island, I bought a two-liter bottle of diet ginger ale and one of diet root beer.
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