OK, I know eating healthy when you’re poor is a challenge in general, but how come I can use food stamps to buy all the soda and chips I want at CVS or Rite Aid, but when I go to the bougie vegetable stand between them to get something healthy for supper, I hand them my EBT card they give me the stinkeye and say they only take Visa or Mastercard. Or cash. But definitely not ACCESS cards.

Well, anyway, it’s a good thing I usually have several dollars worth of nickles floating around in the bottom of my purse. I counted them out one by one so he could be sure I wasn’t shorting him any.