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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 5710506" data-attributes="member: 2072">Fair enough, though I do help a local food bank deliver food to local high schools. I have a 10-passenger van with a wheelchair lift, so it seemed to be the least I could do. Again, I agree. Perhaps things are different, here in my part of NC. There are a few food banks and shelters, for those down on their luck. Granted, I live on a few acres. WIth proper planning I can grow a sizable garden and raise livestock, to help offset the cost of groceries. In fact living off the grid is a lifelong dream of mine.My attachment to the human race is tenuous at best.I tend not to give handouts to beggars, with the exception of the Saxophone Man who played his sax on a local street corner until he was hit by a car (I was going to ask him to play at my wedding reception). On the other hand, if I see someone pushing a stalled car, I always get out and help push. I believe in the innocence of children, but also firmly believe in "Trust No One".So, in all honesty, if someone walked down my winding gravel driveway, made it past my outdoor dogs (not likely) and got into my house without setting off the alarm (not likely). I would automatically assume they were a threat to my 7 kids and attempt to incapacitate the intruder with a blow to the head - before they could explain themselves. Which would be a fair bit kinder that what might happen if my father-in-law woke up first. He'd begin deliberations with his shotgun.</blockquote>

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