There was a woman in front of me in the queue in the supermarket with her two children and she was asking the cashier to put things back and then was working out what food items she could swap to keep in budget. She explained to the cashier that she needed to keep the shop under £40 and I could see she was watching every penny of that shop, putting back eggs and swapping them for bread etc. She held the queue up and I think she felt uncomfortable about that and all the time her 2 children waited with a bar of chocolate each to see if there was money left at the end of the shop to afford the chocolate bar.
I remember my own mother struggling like this at the supermarket and I know how canny this woman has to be to make her shop last and to manage money. I could tell she wasn't just budgeting, rather that they really didn't have much money. At this point in my life I can spare £20 and so I got £20 cash back after my shop and wanted to go and give it to this woman. I was going to say to her that I remembered my Mum struggling a bit with money and that I just wanted to give her £20 to buy whatever she wanted with. I saw her outside the supermarket but I didn't give her the money. I worried she would be insulted, that her children might worry, that she might be ok with her situation. So for all those reasons I didn't but if she needed £20 she might have been happy with that gift from a stranger.
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saltnpepa · 26/02/2015 18:24
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