I was right. Today the warehouse is the emptiest I have ever seen it. The only produce left in the place is a single box of baby potatoes, and the cardboard shelf is empty. We go to the market to pick up every day that it is open, and it is closed on Sundays. Thus we are both more likely to get extra food on Saturdays (since it might go bad on the market guys over the weekend) and more likely to move extra food on Saturdays (since it might go bad on us over the weekend). We try to sell or give away as much as we can on Saturdays. Today we came back with nothing on the truck, despite picking up, among other things, 33 bags of onions yesterday, and 16 more today. We had sorted out the better ones to sell, and were left with ten boxes of onions that needed some love. We met a Haitian woman named Lala, who has a restaurant right down the street from our last site. We kept asking if she would like to take another case of the onions, and she ended up taking all of them. She got some free onions, and we didn't have to make another stop to drop the onions off for compost! We also got some fish curry out of the deal.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
"More?"
Saturday
I was right. Today the warehouse is the emptiest I have ever seen it. The only produce left in the place is a single box of baby potatoes, and the cardboard shelf is empty. We go to the market to pick up every day that it is open, and it is closed on Sundays. Thus we are both more likely to get extra food on Saturdays (since it might go bad on the market guys over the weekend) and more likely to move extra food on Saturdays (since it might go bad on us over the weekend). We try to sell or give away as much as we can on Saturdays. Today we came back with nothing on the truck, despite picking up, among other things, 33 bags of onions yesterday, and 16 more today. We had sorted out the better ones to sell, and were left with ten boxes of onions that needed some love. We met a Haitian woman named Lala, who has a restaurant right down the street from our last site. We kept asking if she would like to take another case of the onions, and she ended up taking all of them. She got some free onions, and we didn't have to make another stop to drop the onions off for compost! We also got some fish curry out of the deal.
I was right. Today the warehouse is the emptiest I have ever seen it. The only produce left in the place is a single box of baby potatoes, and the cardboard shelf is empty. We go to the market to pick up every day that it is open, and it is closed on Sundays. Thus we are both more likely to get extra food on Saturdays (since it might go bad on the market guys over the weekend) and more likely to move extra food on Saturdays (since it might go bad on us over the weekend). We try to sell or give away as much as we can on Saturdays. Today we came back with nothing on the truck, despite picking up, among other things, 33 bags of onions yesterday, and 16 more today. We had sorted out the better ones to sell, and were left with ten boxes of onions that needed some love. We met a Haitian woman named Lala, who has a restaurant right down the street from our last site. We kept asking if she would like to take another case of the onions, and she ended up taking all of them. She got some free onions, and we didn't have to make another stop to drop the onions off for compost! We also got some fish curry out of the deal.
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