Jackie Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi Doc
You were one of the "worthy" poor it seems. Funny how even in the helping
professions, titles and looks account for so much.
jackief
DocCec wrote:
> DocCec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> In a message dated 98-03-11 06:17:02 EST, you write:
>
> << But the students learned what it
> was like to try to access the "helping?" organizations, to wonder where they
> would
> sleep or eat that night, and feel the contempt that others directed toward
> them. >>
>
> One thng I learned from experience during my "food stamps and Medicaid" days
> -- those helping organizations are much more willing to help you if you look
> and sound like you don't need it. Because I was well educated and had the
> remnants of a decent wardrobe, I was usually treated with reasonable respect.
> Those in line with me, often illiterate and not well laundered, were not.
> More than once I got scolded for helping some poor old man or woman fill out a
> form that was impossible for aged eyes to read or that was written in abstruse
> language that make the IRS look like clear speakers. As soon as I looked the
> scolding social worker straight in the eye and said something innocuous like
> "There but for the grace of God go you and I" she would back off, start
> calling me by my title and last name, and even say things like please and
> thank you. Image, it seems, is all.
> Doc
>
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