Bags for Strife

The City Harvest van was nearly empty when Sevan and Kash showed up at the Salvation Army Hall a couple of minutes after 4 pm. Emma with the early ESK birds unloaded most of the crates, so the next job was to assemble 75 snack bags and 44 shopping bags for the vulnerable clients.

"Sevan, let's run a quality check on those bananas before we put them in a bag." - Matt, an ESK regular.

A significant part of the rescued bananas went squidgy and couldn't be given out to the clients, so the last few snack bags were short of the fruit portion.

The GoodGymers took out the donated clothes from the Cupboard of Doom™, secretly pleased about not being the ones who would later have to cram them back into the closet.

Unpacking men's deodorants to give out, and counting the takeaway boxes were the extra chores that the Boss Lady Emma could think about before it became apparent that there was nothing more to do around 5:30 pm. Sevan picked up the temporary DJ job and put some Red Hot Chili Peppers on the speakers, and all the volunteers enjoyed a relaxing break, even though chilli peppers wouldn't make up for the few missing bananas.

When Steph arrived ahead of time for the 2nd shift for his crowd control gig, Sevan and Kash disappeared, and the rock music at ESK went silent.