Robby Hoffman

So the social workers would come over because- Oh, yes.

Because, you know, we lived kind of... Like, it's not... My sister always reminds us, it's not a crime to be poor.

But they do have a circumstance.

For instance, my sister has seen some kids that are... When she goes into families, there's a nine-year-old boy sleeping on a...

Treadmill, an old treadmill they found outside and they put a towel on top of it.

That's not an acceptable, you know, they will work to get that kid a bed, obviously.

Very nice.

Okay, so my sister will do that and say, no, it's not a crime to be poor.

Like, they always, it's very hard for the parents because it's like, am I losing my kid?

No, no, no, like, she's not the police.

She's not, there's no, we're just, I'm going to go shopping with you.

I have a budget.

She's able to get that money and she's able to like bring some dignity back to some of these families.

But when we were kids, we had those type of checkups where my mother would be like, get up, get up, get dressed.

Everybody better look good.

That's clean thing then you're trying to hide cockroaches or whatever and you sit on the couch a lady comes rich lady from God knows where and Looking and it's embarrassing because your mother is embarrassed and she's they're kind of the shame how we're living and this whole thing and see if it's adequate So my sister has that kind of know-how now and she goes family like it's just a little more like she She right away walks in like hey We're in this together

You don't have a laundry machine here.

You're wasting your Sunday.

You're going to do laundry.

Would it help if we tried to work on getting you?