I gave a homeless guy a sandwich today.

I’m not bragging. I know when you do something nice you’re not supposed to announce it. Well, on my way out of Key Food, I saw him digging in the garbage. Obviously, he was hungry. Hmmm, I thought, I should get him something to eat. Yeah, maybe a sandwich. There’s a deli right there. Uhhhhh, I really don’t feel like doing that. Next time I see someone digging in the garbage, I’m gonna buy him or her something to eat. I mean it this time. I walked past the deli. Really? You can’t get the guy a sandwich? Really? Do it! I turned around and walked into the deli. Hmmm, what should I get? Turkey I guess. Not ham. He might be Muslim. And cheese. On a roll? Lettuce and tomato? Hmm, maybe he doesn’t like vegetables. Mayo & mustard? What if he doesn’t like mustard? What if he’s vegetarian? Oh please, like he’s gonna dig in the garbage and then turn down a sandwich??!!! GET THE FUCKING SANDWICH!! I settled on turkey on a roll with lettuce and mayo. No tomato, no mustard, no cheese. I walked back.
Wanna sandwich? He said YES and snatched it out of my hand. Wow.
He really was hungry. He gave me a quick grateful look.
I gave him a thumbs up.

I started to weep. It is UNACCEPTABLE that in this country, someone who obviously will NEVER hold a job, is left to live on the street digging in the garbage for food. I walked home in my cute sneakers and my seventy dollar sports bra and my thousand dollar glasses to an apartment I own with a refrigerator dishwasher stove washer/dryer running water toilet shower flat screen TV stereo and my hundred a month cable Macbook iPhone also a hundred a month two air conditioners electric heater in case it’s chilly before the heat goes on personal trainer dietician thousand a month therapy five hundred a month health insurance comfy bed and a freaking backyard in Brooklyn!

Hmmm, so am I really deprived and hungry because I’m on a diet. REALLY? I think not.

November 28, 2013

Kelly Bedwell