• Babs [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Anyone remember CrackGate from that one mtg event a few years back?

    Also I used to work at a homeless shelter that was located very near a card shop. It’s owners would go to the community meetings where we would have to justify to these NIMBYs that we deserve to be there - awful stuff. One meeting, the owners of the card shop made a shitty comment about how smelly the shelter must be, and clearly didn’t want us there.

    My boss wasn’t having it. We ran the cleanest shelter in the whole damn city. I had practically dragged people to the showers when they couldn’t keep their hygiene up, and that place was scrubbed floor to roof daily. So boss man gets out of his chair like “I run the cleanest shelter in this city. I have been to your Friday Night Magic events. We are not the ones with a hygiene problem here!”

    Don’t think it endeared us to the community, but it did shut them up.