Ealing

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Jigshoe Puzzle

2 GoodGymers made their way to help the Ealing Soup Kitchen in Ealing.

  • Sevan
  • StephDucat
 
Monday, 26th of August 2024
 
Led by Sevan

Sevan joined Steph for the service shift at Ealing Soup Kitchen, with Steph staying on after the earlier prep session. After saying hello, they were dispatched to different tasks on opposite sides of the building.

Steph was dispatched to be crowd control for the food and grocery line, meeting some old friends from his times helping Soup Kitchen on Fridays. Apart from one very merry customer, Steph's time outside was pretty quiet.

Sevan meanwhile was assigned to the womens' clothing tables which were anything but quiet. Each client seemed to bring their own mini tornado in with them, leaving the previously tidy clothes in a jumbled pile. After a while, Sevan gave up on refolding the clothes as he couldn't keep up with the forces of nature that were passing through.

It was task owner Emma's birthday and as a gift to herself, she decided to stop the clothes service early and ask the volunteers to organise all of the existing and new donations. Once everything was sorted, it fell to Sevan and Steph to squeeze everything into the Cupboard of Doom (TM). They managed to squeeze in all of the clothes. There was absolutely no way that the boxes of shoes would fit in, so Steph and Sevan shoved them into any gap that they'd fit into, like a leathery jigsaw puzzle.

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