This morning we got to the soup kitchen at 8:00 to count the homeless people for the census. Our leader told us the people weren't supposed to start arriving until 9:15 but her boss had said to get there at 8:00 (go figure!). The church volunteers had prepared food for about 400 people and were supposed to serve at 11:00. By 10:30, NO ONE had showed up. There were about 30 census counters waiting with our bags and clipboards, and we must have scared the homeless people away!
Our group made up about one third of the census takers, and we left at 10:30. I hope that, as the census crowd thinned down, the hungry people got up enough courage to get in line and get some food, in spite of us!
The government only counts people every 10 years. I guess that means they have to figure out how to do it from scratch every time!
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