Had the food pantry volunteer visited Kafka’s house on any of his trips to Prague? No, he didn’t like Kafka much. Did he think there was any value in seeing authors’ houses in general or in going to Mount Vernon even? As a native of Connecticut, but not only for that reason, he would say that Mark Twain’s house was worth seeing. Did the food pantry volunteer recommend visiting the thermal springs around Budapest? Emphatically yes.
What movie had two of the three Food Pantry Volunteers seen in the theater recently? Wicked. What movie from 2007 did the third volunteer rewatch recently which the two who’d seen Wicked never heard of? There will be Blood. What architect that was spoken of by the volunteers who’d seen Wicked made the volunteer who’d seen There Will Be Blood mentally note he would need to look him up? Walter Gropius. (“Basically unheard of you would have two by Gropius in one town,” said a volunteer.)
What was said to the food pantry volunteer as he adroitly reoriented his cart full of boxes of tomato sauce from back-facing to front-facing in a narrow corridor by a passing school administrator? “You handle that better than I do.”
What subject most dominated the banter and small talk of the food pantry volunteers as they worked? Politics. Did the food pantry volunteer find the President entertaining? No. Were there any topics on which the food pantry volunteer differed with her husband with respect to politics? They broadly agreed but didn’t get into specifics, which maybe they should more.
Did the food pantry volunteer share the food pantry volunteer’s opinion that immigrants to a country have a kind of distorted view of its politics? Politics were shaped by experiences, said the volunteer. Immigrants to this country have different experiences than people who were born here.
Were politics actually formed by experiences or by genetics I wondered aloud? I remember having heated political debates with a libertarian oriented kid in the fourth and fifth grades. We didn’t know anything, we hadn’t experienced anything, but we knew which side we were on.
Were any boxes of corn and tomato sauce carted up from the storage area? Yes, eight of each. How many boxes of sized 5 diapers did you place into ziplock bags, six per bag? Perhaps four. How many boxes of size two diapers did you put in bags? About a half of one.
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