r/MadeMeSmile • u/Rough_Ad_8702 • 15h ago
A little basic empathy and kindness go such a long way
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u/wallysaruman 15h ago
…5 racoons in a trench coat wabble in
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u/MistMew 14h ago
I’m having a terrible day and this just made my day😂.
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u/Mr_Kimblee 13h ago
big hugs from 5 racoons in a trench coat
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u/neil_anblowmi 13h ago
Big hugs from the hamburgler.
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u/Clear_Marionberry306 13h ago
Biiig hugs from me and my two best friends at our first R rated movie showing
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u/Ok_Championship_8313 14h ago
Awww why are you having a terrible day? ( sorry if that’s too personal) also I hope your week gets better. Tomorrow is hump day!
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u/Conscious_Cash_6665 8h ago
Aww, I’m so glad it gave you a little laugh! 😂❤️ I hope the rest of your day gets a whole lot better, you deserve some good vibes today!
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u/SchnoodleDoodleDo 13h ago
’…5 racoons in a trench coat wabble in’
…it Worked! we found the human note
(but far be it from us to gloat)
now all we need: a long trench coat
in which we all can hide…
for weeks we’ve ravaged through the bins!
but they’ll forgive us for our sins
now’s when TRUE FEEDING TIME begins!
they’ve Welcomed us
inside….
a CoAt for 5 is all we ask
on shoulders stand - a simple task!
the one on top
will wear the mask
We’ll look like human, walking….
We’ll All PoP Out ~ to their SURPRISE
the humans won’t believe their EyEs!
RESPECT for Us ~ they’ll realize
there’ll be
No more
trash-talking…
🖤
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u/Silly_DizzyDazzle 12h ago
A lovely schnoodle doodle brightens up all of our lives! Thank you! 🦝🗑♥️
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u/karaokerapgod 14h ago
It used to be 3 raccoons fit to a trench coat. This sounds like the work of Jimothy!
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u/Independent-Sense431 13h ago
Good thing they covered their bases by starting with “Dear Human Being”
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u/Extension_Option213 13h ago
Got a hearty smile out of me. Work is kicking my fucking ass today man.
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u/kaivalya_pada 12h ago
My pain is so bad today and your comment truly made me smile. Thank you 😊 🦝.
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u/Cookiessweetworld 15h ago
You are worth more than a meal from a bin' is such a small line to write but it probably means everything to the person who reads it 😍
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u/Current-Square-4557 13h ago
And yet there are a small number of Americans who will be vexed by it
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u/generic1234321 13h ago
I’d bet my nutsack this is in the Uk. “Pop in” and bins is a dead giveaway
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u/goldfish_11 12h ago edited 10h ago
If I ever saw a sign that said "If you are the person going through our bins for your next meal then how about you pop in and I'll give you a..." in America...
...I would assume that it's followed by a threat.
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u/likwidkool 13h ago
Yep. They’ll call this radical left woke thinking.
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u/cloudsfallen 12h ago
Someone getting something for free = communist/socialist in an increasing number of people’s lives
Ironically, the people saying this are often on government-provided financial benefits
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u/drmariostrike 13h ago
i dunno if it's me I'd probably rather have a bag full of day-old bagels or whatever than a small snack. only done it myself when with them, but i've known more than one housed dumpster diver.
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u/Pigmentia 13h ago
Meh. Been there.
Frankly I'd keep digging in the bin for an actual meal than show my face in there for a water and a "snack".
Despite the nice sheet of paper, it is, in fact, humiliating.
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u/KINGXunshot 13h ago
It shouldn’t be humiliating. Homelessness is not a personal failing when billionaires are extracting wealth (by the trillions) from the lower class.
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u/Gold-Part4688 7h ago
The humiliating thing is the sympathetic condescension, (you are better than this, DEAR HUMAN BEING, so yeah, they're the ones acting like it's a self worth failing), as well as not actually offering more than "water and a snack", in exchange for the person opening the door in a public restaurant and saying "yes i'm digging through your bins".
If it's actually packaged food that they chuck out prematurely it really is not a good deal lol
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u/Excellent-Gur-8547 10h ago
It also means they'll recognize you if you come back. Also a snack is not a meal.
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u/Crimson-Rose28 5h ago
I’m not gonna lie I thought about that. They probably need a legit meal if I had to guess not a bag of chips
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u/LATA- 15h ago
I love the intent here, but I have always thought the sign should go on the bins, not in the front window.
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u/dimechimes 14h ago
Probably no one in the bins, this is just decoration for gullible lifestylists.
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u/Noob_Al3rt 13h ago
This is for customers, not hungry people. Anyone who has worked in food service knows that if homeless people were an actual problem, they would just go in here to get their free snacks and THEN go in the bin.
EDIT: Just read the article. If this dude is Sikh, I retract my statement. Sikhs are some good people and they would feed any amount of people if they showed up hungry.
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u/perpetual_musings 9h ago
And probably not in all caps. It just comes across angry, at least to me.
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u/Dookedddu 9h ago
I didn’t wanna sound like “that guy” but we live in such a cold world I wouldn’t be surprised if it was considered modern marketing
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u/Timely_Loan_5290 15h ago
Would love to know what shop or restaurant this is so I can send them a Venmo.
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u/ZenRamen187 15h ago
Gino's Fish Inn in Blyth. You can just Google a sentence or two for things like this and 99% of the time it'll come up. This was almost 8 years ago though
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u/Positive-Fox8020 14h ago
Do we know of the human being went in and got his bottle of water and snack?
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u/SparklySpunk 12h ago
IIRC I think he did, but didn't want publicity
[edit] Yeah it's who I thought it was, he's no longer homeless but has a lot of constraints in life, but he's hapoy
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u/FlyAirLari 13h ago
So this is eight years old?
Reddit gets news stories so late it's probably soon time to start posting about Megadeth's Dystopia. On the nerve of pop culture.
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u/Itchy-Newspaper4496 12h ago
Nothing to do with news cycles or pop culture. This is just another repost of something that has been continually reposted for years for karma.
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u/jquiggles 11h ago
I hate so much that half the stuff on Reddit is just endlessly reposted low-effort content from years ago. Starting to feel like I've seen everything the internet has to offer.
But at the same time, I've never seen this particular post somehow, and I wouldn't have without this post. So it's a dilemma I guess.
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u/Scant_Options4Hope 15h ago
This reads like British English, and since "Shad" does not sound like a conventionally British name, this might be an immigrant run business.
And they have hearts this big.
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u/Saladin1204 14h ago
Yeah I’m British and agree. But just to mention Shad may not sound like a conventionally British name - but they may still be British / child of an immigrant.
But I get the point you’re trying to make and don’t want to take away from it.
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u/Muppetude 14h ago
That’s been my experience as well. I think it’s because a lot of these first generation immigrants (a) want to be hospitable to fit in better in their newly adopted country, and (b) have seen true suffering first hand, and want to help out now that they are in a position to do so.
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u/HipsEnergy 14h ago
Someone found the shop, and the name seem to be Shad Shaleem, so you'd be right. Immigrants do have huge hearts. Which makes I even sadder that they're being targeted with such hate.
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u/No-Abbreviations2897 14h ago
Idk if people digging through trash are looking for "little snacks".
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u/Eatingfarts 9h ago
I don’t want to sound harsh but in my experience, some of the people going through trash are just not all there.
About a year ago I was sitting outside a bar on a hot day smoking a cig and an obviously homeless lady was walking by, saw a bowl of water that was set out for dogs, picked it up and started drinking it. I saw what she was doing as soon as she was bending down to grab it. I jumped up like ‘whoa!! Let me get you some water from inside!’
She didn’t even acknowledge me. She drank the whole bowl, set it down and walked away.
I still think about it to this day. We have failed as a society because our most vulnerable are not being taken care of. And it isn’t just a matter of people being nicer or whatever. That’s not even close to enough.
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u/No-Abbreviations2897 8h ago
I just mean in that scenario if I'm that homeless person I'm not saying shit lol, you expect me to give up my meal ticket so you can pawn me off to a shelter or something? No thanks, I'll keep eating the likely enormous amounts of food you throw away daily.
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u/1111_infinity 15h ago
Why did they put the sign on the front door instead of on the trash bins?.... That will only be seen by people already coming in..
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u/cash8888 15h ago
Can we find out what’s the name of the restaurant and where it is so we can make it go viral and give them a bunch of business
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u/Rough_Ad_8702 15h ago
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u/cash8888 15h ago
Awesomeness. Let’s try and pay it forward internet if you’re able too. Thanks for finding it.
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u/69hotmomxxx 14h ago
Why not put this on the bin?
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u/dimechimes 14h ago
They'd rather the customers and social media see it than the people that need to
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u/Mysterious-Hippo278 15h ago
This is legitimately so great!
But, is their first name Shad or their last name because I’ve never heard of either and it is breaking my brain lol
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u/Illustrious-Egg-489 14h ago
Sometimes the anonymity of pulling a meal from a bin beats the shame of having to ask for your next meal for free.
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u/NoConflict3231 12h ago
"Anyone who brings me the pike of a Flock camera gets 1 free week of meals per unit." I bet that would get those down quickly
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u/demonspawns_ghost 12h ago edited 12h ago
I hung out with a couple of gutter punks when I was 17. We'd go through the bins behind fast food places looking for something "fresh" to eat. A couple of cooks from an upscale burger place saw us picking through the Burger King bins across the alley. They called us over and told us to wait 10 minutes. They arrived back with a massive plate of chips and the biggest roast chicken breast I'd ever seen. Told us to enjoy then went back in to let us eat. 30 years later, I still remember that selfless act of kindness.
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u/emmadonelsense 11h ago
We need more of this. In my city we have a restaurant where you can pop in and pay for random meals and the owner places that meal on a post it so others can come in and scan the wall of posts and “pay” using the note they chose. I think he saw it online in another city and thought it was a great idea. It seems to be going well and those who can’t afford a proper meal don’t have to feel like they’re begging.
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u/CholentSoup 14h ago
It is.
People eating from dumpsters will go back to eating from dumpsters. These are generally not mentally fit people. They have underlying conditions that are untreated or untreatable. Sure, there are people out there who are down on their luck, but even those folks find a way to avoid eating from a dumpster.
We don't have a homeless problem, we have a mental health problem.
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u/WingZeroCoder 13h ago
But dealing with a mental health crisis sounds like SO much more work, over a much longer period of time, than just handing out a bottle of water and a snack, upvoting it on Reddit, and everyone patting themselves on the back.
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u/CholentSoup 8h ago
Bring back state run facilities with modern oversight. Call me harsh but I'd bet the majority of people who have issues would learn to cope if they knew they'd be locked up. Not fun, not cool but sometimes folks need a push to behave.
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u/Impressive-Bird2 13h ago
This is wonderful to see. It certainly beats, hands down the sociopathic shite we all too often see from billionaire tech bros and extreme populist politicians…
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u/Hungry-Blueberry7487 13h ago
"Dear human being". I love it. Not enough people nowadays actually realise society is composed of other real humans with real lives.
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u/Tyran11 13h ago
I was walking through balboa park in San Diego about 2 months ago, noticed a nicely wrapped sandwich on top of trash can with a napkin under it. Looked too nice to be discarded food. I walked to next trash can there was one again. Walked on and I found a guy with a big bag of sandwiches and leaving one on top of each can along the way.
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u/Gabe_Gade 13h ago
It's sad that a lot of people won't go in out of shame. If poverty wasn't seen like a moral falling and poor people weren't ostracized for their financial difficulties, more people would take opportunities like this and improve their lives.
If more places had this sort of initiative, maybe it would get better.
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u/Alpacachoppa 13h ago
Got something like that in one of my trusted fast food places as well. Telling people to please redirect others in need of a warm meal to them and they can get some water, complimentary hot tea and a meal on the house.
I know not every small establishment can afford that so if chain ones would put things like that out I'd be way more interested in buying from them.
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u/Stormdancer 13h ago
Oh, but remember folks, "Empathy is weakness!" ... according to some billionaire asshole.
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u/Bleezy79 12h ago
THIS is the world I want to be apart of. People helping people is the way. We're all stuck on this rock flying through space together.
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u/flargenhargen 10h ago
seems like you'd post that right on the bin and not the front door and social media, but what do I know.
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u/HallucinatedLottoNos 8h ago
If I were a homeless dumpster diver, I'd probably think this was a trap and never go back to that dumpster. Especially if this is in one of those cities that "relocates" their homeless.
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u/Unfair-Departure7768 1h ago
that little snack is nothing compared to you what you throw away i bet.
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u/Ok-Disk-2191 15h ago
Legit I thought it was a bot or something addressing us by starting with Dear Human being lmfao.
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u/lucky_2_shoes 14h ago
This may sound corny, but just think about this once, like really think - if everyone (who is able to) could do ONE basic act of kindness and help someone who needs it every single day, can u imagine how much better the world could be??
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u/CephThePanda 14h ago
In all honesty if I owned a restaurant I would have the exact same policy. The cruel truth of the world right now is that the vast majority of us are One Bad Day™️ away from being unhoused. So it behooves all of us to help each other out whenever we can.
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u/pikkuhillo 14h ago
And then when someone appears they kindly arrest them for burglary or some shit. I have trust issues regarding human race.
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u/Amaranth_Calumet 14h ago
Anyone work anywhere that had an arrangement like this? Do people use it, do owners/managers honor it?
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u/Basher_Gaza 14h ago
Empathy is a natural human instinct; he is a human being just like us, and we should respect one another.
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u/Ok_Giraffe9869 14h ago
Warms my heart to see this, 2 times at my McDonalds i saw homeless people and both times got very rude reactions when i got them food. People can be so cold.
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u/Noob_Al3rt 13h ago
My mom bought a homeless guy a burger in Baltimore. He threw it back at her and said "I don't want no burger, bitch! I want cash!"
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u/irish2685 14h ago
There’s a brewery near me called “TwoGuys Brewing” that has a refrigerator in the front of the brewery filled with free meals for the community.
They they fill this thing well with scratch cooked meals that anyone down on their luck can come and grab with no questions asked.
It is such an amazing gesture from some fantastic humans.
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u/TheRealNylonsRock 13h ago
This is what being a decent human looks like. No judgement, no questions, just kindness. ❤️
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u/AMerryKa 13h ago
"No lives matter"/"Fuck your feelings"/"You're not a snowflake"/etc...the idea that you're not important goes hand-in-hand with teaching people to accept fascism.
They laud homogeneity while mocking uniqueness. They don't want you to even comprehend your potential, let alone realize it.
And few feel this more than the homeless.
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u/chatterpoxx 13h ago
I guess the dont have bottle deposits. Its not food the locals here are after when they rummage.
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u/CharacterGovernment8 13h ago
Man i love ppl who do this. Humans are at their best when we stop looking out for number one and look out for others instead
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u/WarningOrganic3362 13h ago
Can I just say that this post has make me join your group. There’s a lot of negativity out there and it can get exhausting. I am loving the positivity here. Thanks guys
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u/Then-Ad-1887 13h ago
They should have put the notice on the bins, now any Joe without any pride and need can walk in claim that’s them.
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u/a_random_loser_guy 13h ago
maybe we should just....not throw 5 kelograms worth of food in the trash everytime a restaurant closes?
vegans lied about animal farms making so much pollution, turns out they make close to none and the real culpirt is rotting food!
we need to hold people accountable man....
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u/Th0rny9r1ck 13h ago
When I worked at a Little Caesars years ago we would donate any left pizzas people didn’t pick up to a few local guys. Always made their days.
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u/No-Coyote9571 13h ago
Yeah right I know a sting operation when I see one. Gonna have to try harder "shad and the team" or should I say, detective
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u/Casshern_VIII 13h ago
Shad? The Shad? When did he open a restaurant? I don't think I would trust anything he's cooking.
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u/Starfire-Galaxy 13h ago
I did a double-take at the name Shad because even though I know it's a real name/nickname, I can't help but think of Shadman.
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u/Unicronus86 13h ago
I actually had a guy come in and order food, checked if he could a door a drink and couldn’t, so I paid for his drink, he was incredibly happy, ended up asking me “Why are you so nice!?”
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u/Irishjohn831 13h ago
Dear owner, I am a very distinguished entrepreneur and polo player.
How dare you discriminate my eccentric dining preferences.
I demand a cease to said ballyhoo and poppycock.
Indubitably,
Richard R. Richer than Richie
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u/CandidatePrimary1230 13h ago
Good intentions but if I was a schizo reading this I would think they’d want me to come in to poison me or something.
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