It is almost always better to give money to your local food bank than to someone on the side of the road.

They buy in bulk, making the money go farther. Also, while casualties from panhandling are low, motor vehicle accidents are still common enough.

And yes, some people can’t make it to the food bank, but that’s a rarity. It’s done because they can get more that way than at a food bank. Unfortunately food banks can’t do the same (legal reasons).

Be careful of Cadbury, for those considering.

In the US it is mostly Hershey’s, everywhere else it’s fine.

Haha if you go back, Meal Deals are addictive. They look like cheap gas station sandwiches, but they’re quality ingredients with good fresh bread. Combos we don’t get here like cheese and onion are just a very different thing than you would expect.

But did you get a Meal Deal?

The one thing they left out was school buses. Schools did let out early, but too late, so the traffic from the buses and parents melted the first layer of snow, with no plowing or salting. So it refroze into sheets of ice before people left work.

Source: Me in traffic for 12 hours.

Note: I now live in a place so cold that this week I hiked in -6F and had ice cream outside at 13F. 😃

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I read his biography long ago. While it didn’t pull punches, even then he seemed really promising and I left it with a good feeling, just flawed character traitsany people have. It was easy to believe those things true until negative sentiment was revealed and it clicked on what he must have been like during those times.

Loops Engage earplugs have been wonderful for this.