How About A McCharity?

From time to time, I donated to United Ways, Easter Seal, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Breast Cancer Society, Children's Hospital, and Red Cross Society for Tsunami Disaster... This looks like a long list. But I contribute only minimal amounts and only because it's a social thing to do. I am not a charitable person, I admit. Human disasters are abundant. That's how I excuse myself -- If it happens right in front of me, I would react differently and not be so indifferent.

My husband is the one who cannot pass by a homeless person without being tempted to leave something tangible behind. Once he even took off his own jacket and gave it to a shivering guy walking towards him in a coffee shop. I, on the other hand, would quickly make my pass so I don't have to look at those emotion-inducing scenes.

Today, one of these scenes caught my eyes, inevitably. Walking out of McDonald with a pack of 6-piece McNuggets, I saw a big sign on a cardboard "McHungry." Sitting behind it at the front of the store are a couple of homeless look alike people. I couldn't help but chuckled. And I put my two loonies in front of them. This was not the compassion that I display for the poverty these people are thrown in, but my admiration for the creativity they exhibit amidst poverty.

And if big McDonald stores are as charitable as they claim to be, they should make proper big "McHungry" signs and let the homeless people sit behind them on their store front.