Still As Life

This weekend just passed I have been away on holidays visiting my family for what was meant to be a relaxing weekend at the end of a very hectic week. It didn't end up being relaxing, but I suppose it was restful, in a way.

One of my old school's, Blue Hills College had gotten the contract to distribute Castle and Chrisco Hampers for this area, and had asked for volunteer's so that it could be done as a fundraiser for the school. From what I can gather, it sounds like it will be a pretty decent fundraiser as there is meant to be some $A25,000 raised over the next month.

My parents and sister had volunteered to help out on Sunday so I thought I might as well go along and help out as well.

I honestly never realised just how many people bought things through Chrisco and other things like this, they always seemed too expensive to me. At the warehouse though, we had two refrigerated containers full of frozen hampers, and two refrigerated truck trailers full waiting to be transferred to the containers as the ones from the containers are delivered. That's just for 4 days worth of deliveries! Not to mention the things that were already out of the containers waiting to be loaded into delivery trucks, and this is not a big area! I can only imagine how much must go out in the cities, especially Sydney and Melbourne!

I ended up going out in one of the truck's on a delivery run, I think we went to 16 different places on the run, it just amazed me how many of them the parents were abusive and yelled at the children like they were yelling at dogs.

Of the 16, one there was no one at home, three were retired couples, and of the other 12, they all had kids, and there were only 3, possibly 4 that didn't yell at the kids. Some of them you would see one minute yell at the kids, then the next at the dogs, and there would be no change at all in the way they yelled at either of them. I was just astounded that 2 thirds of the families we delivered to had so much verbal abuse as commonplace. I mean, a lot of these places I delivered pizza to as well when I was working at Domino's, but I had never seen this before. I still find it hard to believe just how much of it is happening.

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