Tons of thoughts
First though: I had NO IDEA people could be so immature. If you have found this site, then good job. The reason I changed the web address is because apparently someone thinks its funny to have an IP operator call me at 3am. The message said this. "This is IP Operator 5242 calling with a message. Hey, its Eddie from school. I got your number from a friend and wanted to hang out. Yeah. End of Message. IP operator 5242."
Now, if you've read in previous posts, a guy that I knew from work was killed in Africa recently. His name was Eddie.
WHAT KIND OF SICK PERSON WOULD EVER DO THAT TO SOMEONE!?!
I was really getting sick of all the posts from "Thomas Jefferson" and all the other crap. I had no idea that people were so childish.
Other thoughts....
Here's my ramble on Red Cross Cards. I'm actually torn between two sides.
So, I work at Victoria's Secret now. I had a women come up with a hand-ful of un-necessary items. Yes, Victoria's Secret has a lot of those, but they do have a lot of every day items. She had 3 corsets, which range anywhere from $50-$120 a pop, a hand full of (what I like to call) "show bra's", basically bra's that you can only wear with extremely thick sweaters or if you want your bra to show through your clothes. They are about $50 bucks a bra and not to mention the dry cleaning bill for those things! Geeze. She also had about ten different pairs of glamor thongs, which are only worn for about five seconds at a time. The only thing she had in her bag that could be considered a "reasonable" purchase was the five for $25 cotton underwear. So, her total came out to be roughly $220.00. She writes me a check, I look at it and ask her her ID. When I go to check the name and address to the ID I notice that there isn't a name on the check. It's a starter check and we cannot accept them. She argues with me and says that I have her ID and I know that it's her. Obviously, she didn't understand that even though I could see that the picture on the Louisiana State License was indeed her, I had no idea if this check that I was holding was hers. After several attempts in trying to explain why I could not process her check she finally just said, "Well, fine. Do you take Red Cross Cards?!" I was 100% dumbfounded. I told her that we did, but she would have to fill out a tax form. She said agreed and when to go and get her card from her mom. She never came back.
Now here is my dilemma. The government is giving out our tax dollars and our donations to people who are using the money to buy this!? I've heard about the people using all of there $2,000 dollars to buy Lui Vition handbags, but I didn't want to believe it. I had heard about people taking the cards and spending them at strip clubs and I didn't want to believe that either. Though, now I am forced to believe it, because I stood face to face with something that I didn't want to believe. I saw it first hand. Even though she didn't come back, at least not during my shift. So here's the other side. These people have had there entire live stripped away from them. They don't have anything, some of them don't even have a change of clothes. So, they are given money to do what they want with it. They have every right to spend it on whatever they want, even if it means on things that are a little ostentatious. So, the dilemma is where do I stand?! They don't have anything and I've never had everything I owned and cherished ripped away from me. So who am I to judge? I would just hope that if I were in that situation, I would go to Walmart and buy only the things that are 100% necessary.


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I was pretty pissed about this for a second. Then I thought that some people are just idiots who do not know how to manage money, and some people are probably also imposters taking advantage of people's charity. When it comes down to it, I don't want to put a moral value on how many people were helped vs. how many people took advantage and whether it was worth it.
While I did not give to the Red Cross until it hurt, I did give until I felt slight discomfort, so in essence there's a bit of my money they're spending. I don’t feel betrayed. I just think of the people who did need help and are getting it.
I've tried to think about it that way as well. I've thought about in the sense that the money that I gave helped children and people who needed it. *sigh*
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