Back in the 80s when I was in college I worked for one of my neighbors mowing lawns a few days/week for a few hours in the morning (I had afternoon/evening clas

Back in the 80s when I was in college I worked for one of my neighbors mowing lawns a few days/week for a few hours in the morning (I had afternoon/evening classes at the time). He and his wife were in their 60s and seemed to sort of adopt my roommate and myself as sort of surrogate grandsons. They'd bring us food all the time, it really helped with our food budget. One day after we had finished our mowing work the guy pulled up behind a Safeway and said "Why don't you get in that dumpster and see if there's any food in there?". I gave him a questioning look. Then he said "Where do you think all that food we give you guys comes from?". The reality of it dawned on me and after my shock subsided I climbed up into the dumpster. And after that we regularly stopped off at dumpsters looking for stuff after our mowing. Fast forward a few months. We found a bag full of about 20lbs of Reese's Peanut Butter cups that had just gone off date (but of course, were fine). My roommate and I ate them for about a week until we were getting sick of them and then he said "Let's take these to class and distribute them". Seemed like a good idea so we did. One of the guys in the class said "Hey, where did you guys get all of these Reese's Peanut Butter cups?". And my roommate said "they're from the dumpster" The look on that guy's face. Probably the same look I had on my face when I learned where all the food the neighbors gave us was coming from.