Comments on: This Sandwich has a Subtext https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/02/551/ Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:26:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: speedwell https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/02/551/#comment-12425 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 14:26:54 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=551#comment-12425 Yeah, there was the semester at school, just after Christmas, when I looked at the schedule for my retail job and saw zero hours scheduled for the week. Was I fired, I asked. No, there just weren’t enough hours to give you any, said the manager. We’ll call you when we need you to come in.

In order to pay my rent, I had to borrow. There wasn’t any money left for toilet paper. I stole some from my roommates, I stole some every day from school. Food? I’d hang around with people ordering pizza in case there was an extra piece, I’d go to church with friends in order to get coffee and cookies or the occasional pot luck. I didn’t know how to ask for assistance. I’d never had to do it and I honestly wasn’t aware I could.

]]> By: Michele Bachmanns solution to health care | The X Blog https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/02/551/#comment-12424 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:37:16 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=551#comment-12424 […] Dollars. Indeed. Have a sandwich, […]

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/02/551/#comment-12423 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:48:20 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=551#comment-12423 At least something is there. It was abandoned for a while, I think.

]]> By: BigFan https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/02/551/#comment-12422 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:47:42 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=551#comment-12422 Mike’s Submarines and NEBA Roast Beef! – near Central and Colvin.
Growing up Delmar in the ’70s, and visiting Albany all the time (my Dad worked up the street) I remember them well – a similar parallel universe.

http://blog.timesunion.com/danielnester/nighthawks-albany-style-neba-roast-beef-and-mikes-submarines/711/

Too bad they’re long gone – it’s a Jiffy Lube or something, nowadays (better than a Subway’s, at least).

]]> By: Nance https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/10/02/551/#comment-12421 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:45:39 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=551#comment-12421 At college over the summer, I worked in the library and lived in the dorms but there was no food service available from May – September. I was dead broke. Fortunately, the college hosted many conferences throughout the summer and I would pretend to be part of the janitorial staff as the meeting ended so I could have 1st dibs on all the conference food left over. I lived on pickles, sliced cheese and cold ham and turkey that summer.

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