Tête-à-Tête-Tête » homeless http://tete-tete-tete.com Sat, 20 Aug 2011 01:25:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 Dirty Sock Alert http://tete-tete-tete.com/2009/03/dirty-sock-alert/ http://tete-tete-tete.com/2009/03/dirty-sock-alert/#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 13:22:48 +0000 smijer http://tete-tete-tete.com/?p=1253 Neal needs one.

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But, you know, if some of these guys would take a cue from Michelle Obama and spend some time in amongst the homeless, I don’t think they would begrudge a guy a working cell phone. If you could sell that phone for the price of a deposit and a few months rent on an apartment, a ride to work, and a few refills on your psych meds – then maybe. But you can’t. And if a guy has managed to keep a nice suit of clothes – or find one at the goodwill – more power to him. It won’t last long, but I doubt anyone who has spent 10 minutes eating lunch with a guy on a park bench will insist he trade it in for rags.

I don’t say that anyone who doesn’t see their own calling as a ministry to the homeless should be asked to go out in the streets. I just think that those who refuse to do it should have dirty socks shoved in their mouth if they use words like “welfare queen” or “parasite” to describe people they don’t know. And those who do go out will find their rewards.

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