Jan 09 2009
Social Service Blog I
As my cupboards were bare I went to Holyoke today and got a new foods stamps card. My old one is lost somewhere. I don’t know where despite hours of searching by multiple people. As this is my third foot stamp card (and I can’t afford to spend seven dollars every time I lose it) I’ve decided to attach this one to my key chain. I never lose my house keys so this should be a good arrangement.
However when I was in the office how screwed up the whole social service system is occurred to me. There were at least 30 people in that office waiting for services. Some of them, according to them, were there in emergency circumstances, but there were only two people available to help us.
The sidewalk wasn’t even cleared and I nearly flipped my chair over. Oh, having calling the Police or EMT’s in Holyoke to pick up a fallen woman in a wheelchair who was just trying to enter the food stamp office, that would have been fun (or not!)
