You can always tell at my store when the welfare cheques come out, we sell a lot of cooked ham (that is the cheapest deli meat we sell). I also love how rude the people are that buy this meat. They act like royalty when they got money. My friend works at a pizza place and a similar thing happens there (a lot of peperoni pizzas get ordered). I’m glad cheque day is only once a month. —Eat Your Ham, Bitches
This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2011.
You should try working in a bar that has VLTs on cheque day if you really want to see a show.
You sounds like an asshole, OP. Mind your business an ring in the damn hams.
I used to work at the phone company. Cheque day would come and people would put 20.00 on a 600.00 phone bill. I don’t know how their service wasn’t disconnected.
As much as I’m all for people minding their own business… it always irritated me to see people come in to the grocery store I worked at with a 2-4 in hand and two little kids and would come up and get a carton of smokes and then buy cheap bread, cheap hotdogs and cheap pop. Obviously you can’t feed your kids quality food when beer needs to be bought and smokes need to be had.
I honestly think we should have a food stamp system in NS and automatic debit from the gov’t for rents. That way you know their rent is paid and you know they’re spending their money on food. And certain grocery store items should be restricted (such as cigarettes — even though grocery stores sell them, you can’t use food stamps to buy them, for example).
It might sound like a nanny-state system, but at least it’ll ensure kids of walfare parents have a place to live and good food in their bellies.
PK, then what would happen would be people selling food stamps, like you see some of the panhandlers selling bus tickets that someone obviously gave them when they ask for change for the bus..
What you do is, you put a serial number on them and an ID card. The serial number on the stamps has to match the picture ID card or they can’t be used. 😀
They DO do this at Christmas time — some charitable organizations will give out vouchers for food. These can’t be used for anything but food, and some people get really pissed when they can’t use them for toys the grocery store sells.
OR a system of debit card where only the person who’s picture is on the card could use it. It would also work especially well if we had fingerprint technology.
The cheques are in? Goody goody, now I can get some beer & donairs =) and some tnt pepperoni.
I get my money once a month OB, and I worked fucking hard for 30 years to earn it. So PISS OFF!!!
mccoy, $20 on a $600 bill, demonstrates that the person is making an effort, and is at least making a token payment. The utility companies look favourably on this, and very often won’t cut off service.
Cool. Thanks Hugo
I don’t think OP’s talking about CP or OAP, Hugo 😛
My dad’s getting his very first Old Age Pension cheque this month. He’s getting paid in back payments since he turned 65 in January which is pretty frigging sweet. He’s all excited as am I, because when dad has extra money… PK is likely to have an extra $20 or so in her pocket *blush* hahaha.
Hahaha like I’ve said before, PK knows how to work the system. 😛
..they call it mardi gras in vancouvers dtes..by about 5 in the evening everybody is passed out/comatose/DEAD…than they have a nappy and start up again round 11..at like 3 am it’s like a scene from a zombie flick…repeat again on thursday(slightly less festive) by friday..they’re broke it’s it’s back to “reality” 🙂
so, what the fuck is wrong with buying piggies. i love ham, and bacon. what the hell gives you any idea, that this is even remotely associated with welfare cheques.
same time of month? i go meat shopping once a month myself, and i work my ass off. so there goes your bright idea of cheques.
even if they do buy, would you rather have them go someplace else, and lose business for your boss’s store? wow, what a fucking good idea, just name your place, and i will gaurentee that i tell everyone not to shop there again. think of your pay as a bye bye, and then you have to go on welfare, will you then be one of those that go and buy ham, because it’s cheapest. fuck o.p., even fucking bologna is way up there in price now, and i love that shit too.
Good GOD at least spring for the smoked ham.
Cooked ham is just NASTY.
Almost as nasty as the mac and cheese loaf *shudder*
PK, maybe I was a little harsh..not much though. Can the OB tell the difference between a welfare bum, and a pensioner with parkinson’s? Doubtful.
yw, mccoy – voice of experience there 😉
That’s a sad commentary on OP’s intelligence, Hugo. hahaha.
Do ALL the cheques come out on the same day? It’s funny because seniors are less likely to do the automatic deposit thing for their cheques (the older ones, baby boomer seniors are more likely to be into this) and on cheque day you’d see a line up out the door and up the street of little blue haired men and women at the local bank in my town 😛
olive loaf is better pk http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LZFjOO14e0c/SIcM…
monthly dry ice shortage day
LOL….welfare check day. Look out liquor store and dollar stores. The welfarians invade for one day a month. Thankfully the majority of us never have to encounter them.
I’m pretty sure all the cheques come out at the same time or within days of each other. A lot of the older ladies in Northwood at least get thier checks auto deposited now because of increased muggings happening on cheque day.
PK, I think your idea of photo id necessary would at least make it harder. I read an article about food stamps during WWII, women in england were sending their stamps to Queen Elizabeth to buy the material for her wedding dress. Elizabeth had decided she would have her dress made from materials she could get using her ration. In the end she didn’t use the donated stamps, she wasn’t allowed to. Looks like even the Queen used food stamps for things other than food.
I do some work through Brunswick St Mission, there are some genuine individuals there, but also some scammers. If we could make it easier for the honest folks and harder for the scammers, but that is pretty well impossible. Most people honestly outside of addictions need help budgeting. It is amazing how some people just do not have a clue when it comes to budgets.
My little guy only likes ham, hot dogs, bacon and chicken legs for meat. But I spend $200 on groceries a week.
This bitch made me sad. Be grateful OP that you are not on the other side of that cash register.
I know someone who works at Wally World and absolutely can’t stand working on baby bonus day. All the baby mama’s come in and stock up on diapers (which is fine) and KD, Beefaroni, pop and make up. Too bad Wally World didn’t sell fresh vegetables and fruit.
OMG; cheque day! The fancy gay barz are filled to capacity when the cheques arrive….coincidence? And these loozerz waste more on taxi’s this time of the month too!
I live in this hood so see the increase in traffic and the smokerz outside.
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Social assistance and CPP both come out on the 3rd last business day before the end of the month… except in December when they are sent out a couple weeks early.
..oh yea taxi drivers love it..they call monthly millionaires..and mel. some wally worlds do have full groceries..shockingly devoid of welfare types(prob. don’t know what veggies are)
“monthly dry ice shortage day”? – over my head neville 🙁
I used to work in a bar with VLTs and WOW was it ever busy on cheque day… I could barely keep up. People would wait in line to use one!! INSANE. Some would even leave their kids in the car for hours at a time… it was pitiful really. there should be some way for them to be prevented from spending all their money on gambling, smokes and drinks… They should have to prove that they provided for their kids… receipts for bills paid and such… although they would probably just forge these…. dammit, poor kids…
I know a few people who are on the system. Some are girls who were screwed over by some of the lovelier losers of Haligonia, and had no choice but to go on welfare. I don’t see them buying crap food for their kids, and most do not smoke. In fact, they make sure they have nutritious food for the kids, they pay their rent, and they certainly aren’t rude. They’re actually pretty grateful that they have help…
Now, i used to work at a grocery store, in a scuzzy little town just outside Halifax, which has a few streets that could be described as poor and ghetto. I remember, on baby bonus and cheque days, these two Uniacke Square “imports” would come in, and they were ALL attitude. One was at least 200lbs, dressed sloppy, hair greasy, with 4 kids banging around- you could tell she was a welfare lifer. And all she bought was pure junk food.
Then again, there was the 300lb mama of 5 who worked at some professional job, and all she bought was ice cream, pop, chips, and frozen pizza. Her kid one day whined that he wanted a banana…she snapped at him that she wasnt buying it, he would waste it. Funny, i’d rather buy him a banana that he would take two bites out of than a fucking carton of ice cream.
that’s like the time I was at macdonalds and just shook my head when I heard the ‘parent’ beside us tell her kid to put down the apple and eat her fries….
WTF….
Frenchie, you did call someone, didn’t you?
there’s no way that should be allowed.
i just got back from gateway, and bought a shitload of ham things, shaved, sliced and whole. oink oink, man i feel a rot coming on. think i’ll go make some bacon wrapped fried bologna sandmiches, with cheese and fried onions. hooray for pork.
holy shit LS…
“bacon wrapped fried bologna sandmiches, with cheese and fried onions”
you hate life that much?
that shit will kill you in no time.
bologna and bacon sammich pour vous http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_6x450Oi93nA/TKSG…
um onion rings sound good right about now.
Also “Cooked ham is just NASTY.”
WHAT CHU TALKIN’ ‘BOUT WILLIS (PK)?
With the perfect aperitif…
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_8nIQOVfvkGI/S36w…
Bon Apetit.
all those z’s koda, are you trying to tell us something?
When my parents weren’t living together from 2005-2008, my dad lived off of bologna sandwiches. He had a blueberry muffin for breakfast from Tims and a coffee (because there was one in our backyard) and two bologna sandwiches for lunch and two for supper. Every. day.
He ate so much bologna that he lost 60 pounds. And his skin turned green-ish.
and zx3, what a fucking way to go, happy as a pig in shit, tra da.
I used to work at a dollar store… during the holidays…
‘Nuff said
And second…I myself love cooked ham that is shredded. I buy it in crazy amounts- the salt content seems higher, and it quenches my need for salt (low blood pressure).
You must remember, a lot of children love hot dogs, bologna, ham- mine do. I wonder if i look like a recipient when i buy these things (cause i love em, too)
Course, i also love oranges, bananas, and veggies.
It’s halifax…
.yea bologna is ok if it’s fried….noy so much…mock chk’n loaf AND chk’n weiners BLECCH! 🙁
I like cold, unfried bologna, and i love raw chicken wieners. Mac n cheese loaf yuuuucccccck
me ma calls fried bologna newfie steaks (sorry sis) put a slice of pineapple on top and voila nouvelle cuisine http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_5tKvwoPy9SM/THuh…
But but but if you don’t give them their cheques so they can pay the rent, utilities, and groceries thenselves then you are contributing to their low self-esteem. And for those who get knocked up and the speminator takes off, you are as responsible as he is. You don’t want kids, there is only one way to prevent it.
Nicely put Bro. If you don’t want to get knocked up, just swallow (or spit).
mock chicken has a few good things going for it, cheap, kids eat it, and even animals. taste is okay if fried with a touch od red wine.
bananas, i would love to be reincarnated as a monkey. i love my bananas, just like bologna, ham, weimers, and of course mac and mouse food. there are over a hundred ways to serve that stuff. i think i made it thru 80 so far.
yeppers, give me a big old newfie steak anyday, and i will sit in my cave and be just a happy little camper. the sunrise stuff is the best. hate sneiders, too rubbery, and maple leaf, well, we won’t go there.
I’m not sure if they still do this, but when I worked for the green grocery chain, people would bring charity vouchers. We were specifically told that they could not buy smokes with them (back before the smoke shop was added), but a few tried. They were just for food.
In the transit biz, cheque day means an influx of seniors and strollers, especially on the ghetto or mall routes.
…or chop of his balls.
I think the actual point in the bitch was the sense of entitlement hence “act like they’re royalty” comment from the OB. Which I can completely understand. Far too many people feel that they can treat a customer service person like pure and utter shit just because they are serving them. Why not just be polite for the 40 second transaction and make everyones like just a little bit better. I really don’t think this bitch was necessarily about gd ham.
Why the hell is welfare able to be used for anything other than rent, food, children’s clothes, etc.? Yes, let’s just give money to people and let them decide what to use it on, since they must be SO responsible especially if they have been on welfare on and off for years. I ditto the debit card idea that can only be used on certain things. You want to do drugs? Then you work every week like I do and earn the right to do drugs and get drunk.
I bet you love to eat banana’s there LS
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If you eat a slice of bologna or more than one hotdog a month,
you are taking years off your life. that shit is tasty, but nasty.
Fried bologna is the shizz. I could subsist on hot dogs. I’d much rather a hot dog than a steak, to be honest. I’m actually all stoaked for my costco hot dog tonight with my mom. LOL.
ha, the costco hotdog. the boy used to love those and as he got older, he liked to make jokes about kayaks and m and m’s. the borgmom buys me giant blocks of parmesan when she goes
sigh. Their ‘attitude’, generally, is bravado in the (sneering) face of ignorant and contemptuous judgement, asshole.
hugo, dry ice shortage…dry ice beer http://www.40ozmaltliquor.com/40/molsondry…