You would hope that most people watching a young mom with five kids struggle in the checkout line at Walmart would show some compassion and maybe even offer to help, but unfortunately people don’t always act the way we hope they would.
Lindsay Rae was in line to check out at Walmart when she noticed a scenethat broke her heart. In front of her was a woman trying to wrangle five kids as she unloaded her cart onto the conveyor belt.
Lindsay herself is a mom of nine – two biological and seven adopted – so the scene was a familiar one to her. What happened in line behind her, though, caught her off guard.
A well-dressed couple who were also waiting in line began to loudly whisper rude comments about the struggling mom.
“How many baby daddies do you think she has?” they asked, noticing that the kids were a mixture of Hispanic and Caucasian. “Can’t even dress those kids for weather,” they mocked. “Just wait until she whips out the food stamps.”
Then, when the woman did pull out a food stamp card, they dramatically sighed. “There’s our tax dollars neatly at work,” they mocked. Click here to continue reading the article
