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Apparently the "women in need" served by the Women in Need Society are not that in need.

Posted by Subversive Jun 3 '09, 19:52

We tried to give them a perfectly good computer desk, a futon with 2 mattresses, a kitchen table with chairs (ugly but functional) and 2 end tables. They came to pick the stuff up and would only take the futon and one mattress (they thought they saw some sort of stain on the other) and the 2 end tables. They rejected the kitchen table because it had some scuffing on it, and the computer desk because there was a bit of water damage on one corner of it. You telling me some poor abused woman living in subsidized housing wouldn't use that desk if it was free? Ridiculous.

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We run into this every year with Obscure Company stuff. Ultimately, it costs money to store that stuff. - TFox Jun 3, 20:37 2
- I understand if it's total garbage, like not functional or whatever. - Subversive Jun 3, 20:39 1
  - Very common in my experience, but yeah, its annoying. - TFox Jun 3, 20:41
Maybe they are like the Salvation Army where they don't actually give the stuff away, they sell it and use the proceeds to help people? nm - ralph wiggum Jun 3, 20:06 18
- don't forget they are also a church. -- nm - Stacy Jun 3, 20:13 16
  - I....don't understand this post. nm - ralph wiggum Jun 3, 20:15 14
    - Let me help ya out. "Don't forget they are also a church" it's right there in plain English, you stole Fizzy Lifting Drinks!! -- nm - Stacy Wonka Jun 3, 20:18
    - I'm reminding you it is also a religious organization, not simply as you made it out ot be. -- nm - Stacy Jun 3, 20:17 9
      - Sorry, I'm really not trying to take a tilt at you. If the point was that the Salvation Army is a religious group - ralph wiggum Jun 3, 20:22 8
        
        no what you saying is correct, I guess I'm just a little peeved at the religious aspect because my father gives money to them monthly, among others. - Stacy Jun 3, 20:33 7
        
        I don't understand what this has to do with the thread. At all. -- nm - Subversive Jun 3, 20:36 6
        
        The salvation Army was being discussed and you don't understand why I have a pet peeve against them? Is that too hard to comprehend? -- nm - Stacy Jun 3, 20:39 4
        
        I don't understand why your pet peeve is relevant to the thread at hand. - Subversive Jun 3, 20:45
        
        Yeah, but... to be honest dude, what you started off posting did not look like "pet peeve". It looked like you were defending them. -- nm - TFox Jun 3, 20:43 2
        
        I'm like half asleep. Maybe I'm not being articulate enough tonight? -- nm - Stacy Jun 3, 20:45 1
        
        *goes back to playing Mafia Wars* -- nm - Stacy Jun 3, 20:46
        
        see, bery? -- nm - dug Jun 3, 20:37
    - bery should add this to the "mark as" - dug Jun 3, 20:15 2
      - seriously shut up -- nm - Stacy Jun 3, 20:18 1
        
        Thanks Pixie -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 20:19
  - The Women in Need society is a church? -- nm - Subversive Jun 3, 20:14
- Possible, very possible. -- nm - Subversive Jun 3, 20:12
They probably weren't even women. -- nm - nubby Jun 3, 20:00 8
- It's a trap! -- nm - Qale Jun 3, 20:12
- Well no, it was dudes who came to move the furniture. Was that not implied? - Subversive Jun 3, 20:01 6
  - The dudes were just being lazy. Now it makes sense. Guys always look for ways to get out of work. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 20:02 5
    - "I know, I'll volunteer my time and then be completely useless to the organization I'm volunteering for." -- nm - Lazy Dudes Jun 3, 20:03 4
      - Maybe they're mandated by the court. -- nm - nubby Jun 3, 20:13
      - This way I only present fine items to these ladies in need. I have what they need (if you know what I mean). -- nm - Lazy Dudes Jun 3, 20:09
      - "*shrug* Better than being lazy at home." -- nm - Beryllium Jun 3, 20:06
      - no wonder the women are in need. -- nm - loosiflu Jun 3, 20:05
I would have said all or nothing ladies. Then called Goodwill -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 19:54 2
- The perk was that WINS sends a truck and will pick up. Goodwill will not. - Subversive Jun 3, 19:56 1
  - Haha they send a truck alright, they just don't fill it up. -- nm - Redmond Jun 3, 20:00

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