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Times Are Tough

We hear almost daily the statistics and state of our economy, but sometimes it takes seeing an individual do something that he/she normally wouldn’t do to make it hit home that times are tough.  I went to the mall the other day for the first time in a long while, and there are numerous vacant spots available.  That’s not to mention even the old strip malls and shopping outlets.  But even seeing things progress to where it is now, sometimes we just hear the numbers and really never do think about how the people are actually being effected.

Today we pulled into a gas station to throw away a couple of McDonald’s cups on the way back to the office.  There was a man that approached the trash can at the pumps that we were going to toss them in so we waited on him before getting out to throw them away.  He had a few coke cans in one hand and dug around in the trash can with his other hand and picked out whatever cans he could find, slid a free finger into the mouth openings, and walked to his truck to put them in the bed.  This guy was driving a 70s-80s Ford F150, wearing a white tee and jogging pants.  This guy is the guy that rarely ever makes it on the evening news.  This guy is a prime example of what Main Street is having to do today to make ends meet.  It’s a very sad situation a lot of people are finding themselves in, doing things they would have never previously done just to get by, and is really hard to imagine being in.