Sign of the Times
12 November, 12:11 PM
I was just at Home Depot, picking up a couple things for a project, and in the parking lot on the way out, two different men approached me asking if I needed someone to help on my project. I don’t think that’s ever happened to me before; of course, I wasn’t in Home Depot much before I bought my first house in 1998. Still, when I got home I was talking to the painter working on my basement. “Just you wait until mid-December,” he said, “people will be really desperate by then”.
Merry Christmas.
— Gordon Weakliem
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Unfortunately it’s getting tough everywhere and people are trying to find ways to support their families. It’s a shame.
— KeeKee · 12 November 2008, 17:10 · #
I usually find myself at Home Depot several times a year and I can honestly say that I have never had anyone ever stop me and ask if I needed help. Each and every time it takes at least 10 minutes to find some one with an orange vest on to ask for assistance and they are usually already helping at least one other person at the time.
Maybe this is a sign of the times, weird!
Many thanks,
Betsy Buchanan
— Betsy Buchanan · 13 November 2008, 15:48 · #
I see that stuff all the time outside of convenient stores here in town!
— Guy · 14 November 2008, 12:53 · #
It’s really a shame that so many people are so hard up for money (and work) that they are forced to try to find work in the Home Depot parking lot by soliciting the departing customers. Very very sad.
— Jerry · 15 November 2008, 10:26 · #
That reminds me of a story I heard from a friend where she went into a shopping center where day-laborers hang out waiting for someone to stop and pick them up to give them work. She pulled into the parking lot to go into one of the stores and one of the eager workers jumped into her car and asked her for work. She was scared out of her mind!
— Julie · 16 November 2008, 11:16 · #