Food Bank Dating

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Think, poor men not getting rejected for not having a job and a car.

I'm thinking of trying this myself, since "online dating doesn't work" and all that.
I don't know if I'm healthy enough to stand in line at food banks anymore though.
I am starting to get obsessed with becoming a match-maker, maybe I should start a food bank dating service.

At the food bank I go to you can sit and wait till your number's called. If it's raining out I do that, otherwise I just go for a walk around the nighbourhood and come back in time to hear my number called. I can't imagine how a dating service at my food bank would work. Some of the people there are quite scary, some talk to themselves, some are clearly schizophrenic. I usually talk to no one and keep to myself. That seems to be the norm for the place.

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You have to consider what they are doing at the food bank to begin with. I'd suspect there may be a high concentration of substance abusers in addition to other disorders that keep people from working. This is just speculation, though.

Don't get so desperate that you end up making even more trouble for yourself. The point of being in a relationship is to be happy, not to treat people like fish and go "I got one!" and expect that everything will be better now, despite that the fish you caught is a piranha with porcupine quills and rabies.

i agree with what the others said, and most the people at my food bank are old women and men. or women in their 40s

I agree, as well.

It seems that people in their late teens to early thirties are viewed with suspicion as exploiting the system, especially if they seem to be even slightly better dressed that the average basket* person.

*"Trolley", for you blokes in the U.K.

I volunteered at a food-bank a few times because my Catholic high-school required community service hours. The people running the bank were senior citizens & lots of people volunteering were other high-school students or adults who needed community service hours due to being arrested for things like DUIs. Lots of the customers called in before going & answered a lot of the questions for the paperwork. Then the workers there like me would get the food ready while the customer was on their way over. When the customer got there they would either be doing paperwork while workers go the food ready or they would sign & then take the food we hand them & drive off.
I don't think food-bank dating would work if it's anything like that one.

Not only do you have a lot of people who may be homeless or mentally ill, you have to be careful of con artists. I know some girls who are more than happy to use their sexuality to get what they want, as long as you can provide and once you can't provide, they will be gone in a jiffy. The decent ones will return the favor, but some will just game you to take your money with promises of sexy time.

Why don't you try volunteering at the soup kitchen and see if there are any single girls there. You know they are compassionate enough to help those who don't have jobs or cars.

Plus the big question, is it morally ethical to take food from a food bank if your not in true need?

This is either not as bad as, or worse than, finding a partner in a board-and-care facility (yeah how would you know that!) - um yeah there is the caliber of personality you're dealing with, the gender ratio is 5:1 at best and then it narrows down to age and appearance, but those places didn't exist I'd have been BMWing all about it on the "XX-Year-Old" thread long ago or drank ,myself to death before that

I don't think it would be a good idea. I don't want some old Grandpapapa chasing after me.