Yes the whole 'told them before they were told' is suspect too imo. I'm sure people running food banks don't run around blabbing who uses it. A complete betrayal of trust if so. I bet Jack was desparate to tell them. She thrives on pity.
Oh yes. I wonder how many people who are literally starving claim it’s pride and not wanting to ask their perfectly comfortable parents that caused it? Russian peasants who were ‘literally starving’ ate the corpses of family members to survive. Obviously just not proud enough eh Jack?
If Jack didn’t drag a crying wet toddler around the shops with her, how would they have known she was a single mum? There would be a real risk of Jack being offered a job.Yes it makes no sense. Once the parents found out it is inconceivable they stood back and allowed a small boy to be cold and hungry. Plus once Jack had 'reluctantly'told them why would she feel the shame she said she did after that? Thus stopping her asking for help again?
And why didn't they mind him while Jack trudged around in the rain looking for jobs?
Her story has so many holes but it seems to boil down to a) Jack is telling the truth and her family, and SB's family let an obviously suffering mother and child live in misery for a year and a half or b) she is lying about lots of it, and her parents are complicit in the deception. For whatever reasons.
The thing is, half the time it wasn't raining, she just felt a wet toddler was the sort of thing a poor might cart about with them.
She survived on grits and the weevils provided the protein
Turning tricks at the honky tonk just to make a few dollars.
Sometimes she went down the bayou for some crawfish that she softly, gently rinsed in the sweltering heat whilst sobbing into her slip dress made from flour sacks.
They’d be beneath a naice middle class gel like her.
Selling muscles from the swamp out back of her shack
And these days she survives on grifts and evil.
If it was pride, as she claims, that stopped her asking her supportive and reasonably affluent parents for help, then she has got a nerve making a fairly lucrative career out of it. She had choices to get her and her child out of the poverty hole which she chose not to take.
Is another aspect of this that she is just incredibly tight fisted and saw it as a way of getting free food? She seems to deeply begrudge spending money on food, even her earliest blogs are boasting about how little she can spend per week on food. She thinks she's entitled to free food and free patreon cash (that doesn't even cover her rent and bills lol).
Ooh Harold!! Dirty dawg.Soz guys but Georgia jack will never not be funny - I’m crying here. Jenny you should do stand up - you’re killing me
Eta - bugger13 coming up the rear too
I used to run such a group around the same time (nowhere near Southend), sort of. And although ‘young mums’ were up to 25, really this was aimed at 16-19 year olds…. Anyone older than about 21 we would be encouraging to go to ‘normal’ mums and babies groups, unless there was a SEN statement or reason to believe they were particularly vulnerable eg care leaver, referred by social care.
