Another Jack thought: since she refused help from her financially comfortable parents so she could “stand on her own two feet”, her brief poverty was a lifestyle choice. Therefore, when she used food banks, she was taking away the limited food stocks from people who had no one to help them and truly, truly needed them.
Another thought, about when she allegedly paid for her 17p tin of kidney beans in single pennies. That makes no bleeping sense. Is she really implying she didn’t have a single 2p or 5p in her saved up change? Why would you waste valuable time and calories walking to the shops to buy a single tin of plain kidney beans with your precious 17 pennies? Why not just shoplift a bit more since she was already (allegedly) doing it?
I don’t know, the 17 pennies thing just sounds ridiculously over the top. The way she waxed lyrical about her “shame-stained face” while impatient customers judged her, just sounds like some kind of poverty porn urchin fantasy.