Why Goodwill is Good for Mankind

Today I worked at Burger King, figuring I'd write the post after something ridiculous happened. Much to my surprise, I found out a tidbit before I got to work that I figured was blog worthy. I went to Goodwill to get my dad a $20 gift certificate. (Okay, it turned out to be a shitty gift, but I only had $20 and he loves the Goodwill so I figured it would work out).

I met my friend's mom (Patti) in there, who gave me a hug and was like "sorry you saw me in my underwear the other day" and then asked what I was doing there. I told her I wanted a gift certificate and she disappeared into the back to get me one. This left me unoccupied for about 5 minutes. The first two minutes, I was people watching. Then I got caught. So I started to look around instead.

Sitting there on the shelf before me was none other than about 6 pregnancy tests. My brain said to me "Andrea, who on EARTH would buy a pregnancy test from the Goodwill, in essence a second hand store?" Then my eyes spied about 10 more on the eye-level shelf. As I was chuckling to myself, 3 trailer trash girls walked by, 2 obviously pregnant. As the 2 obviously pregnant ones walked in front of me, the third walked slightly behind and slyly grabbed a test off the shelf and headed towards the bathroom...I guess no one buys them...

In my utter disbelief of this town that I've been stuck in, my eyes traveled downwards towards a cardboard box occupying the bottom shelf. Inside I spied Maxim ribbed condoms. Right, like anyone in this town needs Maxim.

Now, my advice to the Goodwill is this. Put the condoms on the eye-level shelf, and leave the pregnancy tests on the bottom. In this town, its like 1 out of 3 girls is pregnant, and 1 out of 2 of those are unwed, uneducated, and poor. Condoms first, then the tests will be unnecessary, as long as the condoms aren't second hand.