First and Last

So, today at the food pantry was...mostly good.  160 was the count, as expected.  We were shorted on half of our produce order, so that was not good.  We did achieve our goal of getting rid of all the produce as there was much less to give.  The milk and the eggs and some bread arrived, and the first hundred or so got that.  Yay.  

The toy drive went mostly well; all who showed up with kids got toys, and even some people who didn't pre-register but had kids in the car (most clients don't bring them) got one.  Some clients came back and got them, also good.  Of course, many clients complained that they had kids and didn't bring them (none were registered on pantrytrak) or had someone else's kids staying with them...  now, all of us have been around the Village for a while, and ALL of us agreed that kids had to be present to get toys.  One, seeing the joy in a child's face... Two, this giveaway was from another group, and they wanted pics, etc., so... I like to keep people happy.  Three, all of us have seen clients pulling shit, like selling stuff they just got, etc., so... tough crap.  Of course, people bitched, so I am not sure we will do this again...

I did miss one bit of excitement; one client who had already been here this month was told he couldn't get anything, save for the supplemental produce bag, which was now amended to extra tomato soup and PB&J.   He didn't take it well; he put the bag under his tires and drove over it, sending the contents spewing.  Alas.  I think he is banned, though who knows what next month's manager will do.  We are dealing with Hope and Changers here, so...

Why Trump keeps dreaming he can flip Minnesota - POLITICO
I don't know; after yesterday's Kari Lake article and this, I would prefer a candidate who is aspirational and trying to win everywhere.  Yes, Trump has his flaws, but so does Biden, and Trump would do well to hit as many states as possible that are close; I think this will be a close election (though it should not be) and MN's 10 votes may be crucial, or at least nice to have...at the very least, making the Dems play defense somewhere allows us to succeed elsewhere, and the stakes are too high for us not to do so.