A greengrocer is visited daily by a little boy who takes the overripe fruit he can no longer sell. One day, he decides to follow him and find out why a dollar won’t stretch. We all know that times have been hard all around, but they are always harder on the very poor. The less you have, the shorter the money seems to be. And as we know, a dollar won’t stretch.
Families struggling to put food on the table must buy what’s cheapest, so fresh fruit and vegetables aren’t on the list. Mr. Lewis knew this. He had been through some pretty hard times himself. He knew what it was to go hungry.
That was why Mr Lewis had a box at the front of his fruit and vegetable store in which he put produce that was just a little too overripe to sell. The poorest people in the neighbourhood knew it would be there for the taking. Most of the people who shopped at what Mr Lewis thought of as his charity box were the elderly in the neighbourhood or thin, harried-looking women with too many children to feed. Read the full story here ▶
