Reply #74: Of course it it. The feeling of an empty stomach. Nothing quite like that [View All]

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and if you're watching little kids go without, listen to them cry and whine because they're hungry, and know that no excuse will make it any better, that's one of a parent's worst nightmares. That's torture.

Or if your mom was lucky enough to score milk off the milkman and she had a can of tomatos, why there was homemade tomatoe soup. Of course, no utilities because there was no money and no family members gave a damn, so you lived by candle and cooked on a barbecue grill. Little woman outside in the yard stirring milk into a pan to make tomato soup. For a kid, the embarrassment will kill ya. The neighbor kids see what's going on, and they tease you about it. And cooking soup (or oatmeal or fried potatoes) out in the yard, well there was a source for a lot of joke material for some of the neighborhoods bigger assholes. And I know now that it wasn't much better for the person outside in the yard making the 'soup'. The knowledge that the situation is bad and is getting worse, that's torture for everyone old enough to realize how bad the things really are. And when nothing works, when nothing or no one seems to care, that's torture.

And that shit was nothing, a piece of cake compared to when the landlord had all your shit put out on the street and you had no where to go. I can tell you first fucking hand, the fear and insecurity and embarrassment and shame IS TORTURE, EVEN FOR KIDS.

Some people here need their asses kicked and their heads examined. In that order.