Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Food box experience





 I actually slept okay for the night before doing something I was not equipped trained or skilled it doing which would be the food box. Once a month food boxes are dropped off at our building from the Utah Food Bank. I'm really not quite sure what the program is all about even though I've been around it for years. All I know is that I'm not part of that program that means I don't get a food box that's all right. Anyway remember I volunteered to take over the program? Then I remember that on the day that would be the food bank day, today I have my program which is pooping and showering in the morning before I could do anything else. I'm unsure about the program works as far as the food bank goes so today was going to be a major learning experience. Someone comes in the night before and sets up the tables they sit in a certain way that the food boxes are stacked on top of them and basically given to people who are on the food box program. But typically happens at that point is that the people go open their boxes go through it take what they want out of the boxes and leave the rest for the giveaway table. Each month is copious piles of bags of beans and macaroni of all kinds, cans of potatoes, beans, anything you can think that can be canned given to poor people to eat. I of course have taken a lot of cans over the years I have quite a bit in my storage area which I'm quite thankful for. I also have many bags of beans and such though I've never really constantly reconstituted them or soak them and used them to make soup or something I could if I wanted to. They're in my storage I had used them if you want I can't get real food- makes me feel good. Anyway fortunate for me the food bank slip got mixed up and we didn't even get the boxes until almost 12:00 noon! I wouldn't call at chaos but it was kind of close when people finally did realize that the food was here and they came down to get their boxes and things. It was kind of a mix up here and there and who was in charge. There is one little volunteer who was in charge but she finally gave up because she was exhausted from what she had been waiting all morning. I finally kind of figured out what I was supposed to be doing and did that luckily one of the individuals who did this program before showed up and assisted me for the rest of the period of how and what to do with empty boxes, boxes that weren't picked up, how to get the boxes to the people who can't get down to pick them up themselves- - the boxes are really quite heavy. I did that all finally and ended up realizing it's not such a big deal not to freak it out over those things I can't control. Everything would work out eventually I should have known that but still it's something new and I hate looking stupid


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