Yesterday, I phoned four church shops offering them a donated item to go to "needy" people.
Rather than put them on one of the auction websites to sell I thought I would do
my bit.
The item is a Pentium 4 3Ghz HP compact PC , still working ( it had been running as a file server) and perfect for surfing and word processing. However I was told by all services: "Oh we don't need them, thanks, we
have a number already, people only want the fast machines."
Wait, am I
missing something here? We are talking about people who are down on
their luck, aren't we? Well, you have lost me. From now on everything
gets taken to the tip. None of these services will get a thing from me
again. Seems that their clients are not so "needy" after all.
PS: Just
phoned one of the Hospice shops and was informed they would be happy to
pick up the item, including other things.
