I seriously hate when I get stereotyped. It's honestly happened to me for one reason or another since I was a kid. But now if I have a cart full of groceries things are assumed about me as if you can't have a cart full of groceries without being on food stamps or WIC? First of all, I had WIC when my older boys were young. I only had it for my first two and not till they were five, just for a few years, no one after that. And it doesn't mean you're on welfare if you get WIC.
Although, now that I'm no longer in poverty I realize that people view any kind of handout as welfare. But when you're in it, when you're in poverty, you don't view WIC as welfare. You view cash assistance as welfare. Actually, I still don't view WIC as welfare. There's plenty of people that get WIC that work and don't get other types of assistance including food stamps.
It's a whole new world when you learn what others view as welfare once you leave the poverty world. Everything's welfare. But, no, none of that and the lady gave me attitude. So I guess if I had vouchers she would have been even nastier than she already was. I later came to realize though that this particular lady is nasty with everyone.
I even witnessed her nastiness to a woman who appeared to be in her 70s and who was being sweet. Who knows? I also hate shopping near the 1st of the month with my carts full cause then the dirty looks really roll in. You just know what they're thinking. You can see it in their eyes, the disdain and assumptions. Everyone's eying everyone else trying to figure out who's on food stamps cause it's near the 1st.
I get real dirty looks if I dare run out of things that first week, then the cashier's always surprised when I pay credit or debit. It's disgusting, really. I buy the same amount every week and I pay for it, me. And I don't look down on anyone that needs help. If someone needs help while they're helping their self or if they're disabled, shouldn't we help? What's wrong with this world...
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