The Looking-Forward-To-Austerity Family At McDonald's

[Donnachaidh]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/cranestation/37357/the-looking-forward-to-austerity-family-at-mcdonalds

Masoninblue and I were seated at a back table at McDonald’s yesterday, sharing a computer that was plugged into the only outlet in the public seating area. His computer does not have a functioning battery so we must plug in to use it. We were at McDonald’s, drinking sodas and using their WiFi, because we are temporarily internet disconnected. Sort of. We initially purchased sodas, but now we use the same cup over and over for ice water, so it looks like we have a new soda, anyway.

Four members of a family arrived to have lunch while we were there: a woman and her son, and a woman and her mother.

Since I happened to be outside when they arrived, and since two of the women were toting portable oxygen tanks, I helped them with the door. When we got inside I offered them our table, because our table was marked with a blue ‘disability’ symbol, but the women declined, opting instead for a larger and more private booth across the aisle from us.

The women wore clean, modest house dresses and the man was clad in jeans and a t-shirt, and once they were situated in the booth with their oxygen tanks on the benches, one of the women produced a jar filled with coins and poured it onto the table.

More at the link --

[FirstLight]

1. not only a story to be shared, but

even most of the comments are compassionate and on the same page.

we are already sacrificing, in so many ways... for what? endless wars and corporate plutocracy...

not a good feeling, not at all

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[WCGreen]

3. I understand trying to be "normal" when you aren't normal....

as far as most people are concerned.

[suffragette]

4. K&R

Our Austerity, their Prosperity

[neverforget]

5. Sums it up nicely

[suffragette]

8. British students had it on a sign in their protest against budget cuts

over there.
And yeah, sums it up just as well here.

[Scurrilous]

6. Obama has a yacht?

Where does he keep it?

[jtuck004]

7. K&R n/t