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Shamed in Edina for using food stamps | Star Tribune
To the irritated lady at the Cub Foods, I should have told you to your face that you were being presumptuous.
Maybe the lady in question was having a bad day, or maybe she personifies the joke; What do the letters in Edina stand for? Every Day I Need Attention.
Minnesota humor. We convulse ourselves.
I just thought this was a really good reminder that things aren't always as they appear.
To the irritated lady at the Cub Foods, I should have told you to your face that you were being presumptuous.
I know we looked like people you might think need EBT: a bit unkempt in sweatpants and T-shirts. If Id had the guts to talk to you, I would have told you that Id just had an emergency surgery and that my daughter came home from college five hours away to help for the weekend because my husband had scheduled surgery two days after mine. I havent been able to put on real clothes yet, and I cant lift a bag of groceries.
I thought I could handle your disdain, since I am a professional working at a local corporation where I am surrounded every day by people who respect me and care about me. But it still made me feel a little dirty unworthy and I still went home and cried in the privacy of my shower so my family would not know I was hurt by you.
I am sorry I did not tell you all of this in person. What my daughter and I resolved is that we will never let my son (her brother) go to the store alone with his Electronic Benefits Transfer card and be subjected to this humiliation.
We all have our stories, and no one is any better than another. Everyone deserves the respect they want for themselves, even if they use an EBT card to pay for their groceries.
Maybe the lady in question was having a bad day, or maybe she personifies the joke; What do the letters in Edina stand for? Every Day I Need Attention.
Minnesota humor. We convulse ourselves.
I just thought this was a really good reminder that things aren't always as they appear.