The Boys' Brigade has a yearly Sharity Gift Box programme for the needy. A used black bra was among the 'donated' items. I am immune to it and yet flabbergasted at it. This is a paradox, yes.
I have read about locals doing this more than once but my shock is due to the fact that this is the first time I had bought new items for the Gift Box recipients, and this act just undermines mine. There were expired food and second-hand clothes as well, but this blew my breath away. It is a personal lingerie item which should not be given as a present. This just adds to other similar items like broken toys, dirty clothes and rotten rice. All are astoundingly repulsive.
The recipients are just like the people we give presents to: family, friends and colleagues. They don't deserve such items. Besides, this only serves to give the volunteers more work in picking them out before wrapping the rest of the items. Such selfishness is too terrible to behold.
A letter was written in response to the trash donated to the Salvation Army. Even typing this sentence out appalls me. Those that equally repulse me are: dead plants, chairs without legs, television sets with cracked screens, couches with dubious stains and stuffing protruding, one shoe and a bicycle with no wheels. What callousness on the donors' part! These are meant to be sold to customers! They may be less financially able as the donors are, but they certainly deserve to have products that are sold to them in good condition!
The irony is that the writer witnessed donors dumping a cracked plantpot into the donation bin while acting guiltily about it. If they knew it was wrong, why did they still do it? Senseless people! I like the way the writer ended his letter though. He brought up the possibility of their need to patronise the Salvation Army in future. That would be a moment I look forward to.
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