When I first started high school, my parents worked a lot, so they left me to fend for myself and I was terrible about packing lunches, so lunchtime was always

When I first started high school, my parents worked a lot, so they left me to fend for myself and I was terrible about packing lunches, so lunchtime was always stressful. I ended up getting a job washing dishes in the school kitchen, which got me a ticket for a free lunch. We weren't rich, but we were definitely comfortably middle class. I'm sure there were a lot of kids like me. It would have been a lot better if the food was free. Edit: grammar