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Originally Posted by monster
Are you judging this woman by how she chooses to spend the little cash she has? haven't you (and others) -in the past, on here- said something like "you can't understand until you're in their shoes how important a little treat is" (yes, I'm paraphrasing, but....)?
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Okay, it was an off the cuff remark.
My first thought was that the story didn't make sense.
From that thought I progressed to the opinion that the woman's behaviour didn't make sense.
I read it that she had paid to take her children to see Santa in November at a time when her situation was very precarious.
As you know, November is not Christmas here.
And seeing Santa is a luxury.
I accept that neither is true in America.
I also hold my hands up and say mea culpa. I had no right to cast any aspersions on that woman, the way she spends or does not spend her money or way she chooses to celebrate Christmas and when. Especially when it is known that if I had £5 left in the world I would probably go and buy some hair-dye to cheer myself up about the future.
I think I've had more responses to that one comment than to anything else I've written all year
