Yeah and COVID has shown it doesn't break the bank, these schools are perfectly capable of spending thousands to charter new sports teams after all that. Honestly the tater tots they sell more than make up for all the costs of the whole lunch operation, everyone loves them and the lines at the snack bar get really long
@@cottoncandiez8872 yea but the parents have to prove they are giving them a valid education in some way and if they dont they are legally required to go to public school. Because how can a parent prove a good education if both parents are working full time.
Representing the dinner ladies up and down this land who with their warmth and kindness, serve us our dinners before we run off and go back to our football/spelling/mental maths *legends* 👏👏👏💖
Dinner ladies are truly one of the jobs that provide the most kindness and warmth to people a doctors still gonna force you to pay a arm and a leg for his efforts a lawyer may be greedy and corrupt but a lunch lady demands no pay for there service and gives the absolute most kindness to people (if your reading this and your still in school let the lunch lady know you appreciate them or give them some money for how nice they act )
sometimes when I go to game theory I always need a lot of food and the cafes always are there for me❤ *moment of silence for the cafes they have there because it’s delicious*
I was an exchange student in the UK and the lunch ladies were prob the only ones who treated me like an actual human being. hahaha, being so far away from home and being asked, "what can I get for you, love?" was so touching.
The dinner ladies in Wales Primary Schools are always the best!!I love them and bc I live near my old school I always wave at them and they remember me!!
This broke my heart when I was in school. I watched lunch ladies dump a kids tray in the trash because they didn't have enough money. I always tried to share what I had
the fact that they would rather waste the food chucking it in the bin than let a child eat (esp since it’s likely that’s their only proper meal if they have financial issues paying). it makes me fucking sick to the core. obviously it’s not about money if they’re fine trashing it. imagine the kid seeing their tray dumped out, knowing the adults entrusted w their care & well-being would rather bin their lunch than let them eat. how horrible & demoralising. idc if it sounds mean, i wish every adult who would starve a poor baby like that, trashing their lunch in front of their little hopeful face, has a period in their lives where they can’t get food, are starving, and are turned away as disgustingly as they did to a sweet baby. so they can feel in their core the way they made a child feel
Dotty makes me want to cry … that’s exactly how it should be. No child should ever be starving or sitting on a chair looking at others eating while pretending not to be hungry. 🥺😫. I know that feeling
Our school tracked the meals too much for the ladies to give out free entrees , but they would give you as much as you wanted of the “sides” that often got refused like Hummus and carrots, whole wheat crackers, and an apple or banana ❤
This hit me, my brothers name is Leo. We grew up poor and we have missed meals. 😢 Thanks to all the folks who are like this fictional lunch lady. God bless them.
I remember when the lunch lady recognized me and what I ordered (when that food was served) and i was so grateful. She was the cutest little ol lunch lady :)
Love Dotty 💜💜💜 I had a dotty of my own back in school! She helped me a couple of times when I was short on cash. Thank god for these kind of lunch ladies!
I remember in elementary school there were days that my family couldn't afford the food or there was no money in my account because we were in-between pay weeks so I would have to get a single cheese sandwich that was cold and a water cup. This happen once in about 2nd grade. I went through the line and got to the till and my account got declined so the lady pulled me off to the side and gave me the cup and sandwich and I walked out of the line crying because so embarrassed it happened in front of my friends and I was lactose intolerant so couldn't eat. I sat down at the table and my friends were all super worried about me so gave me some of their food when I explained my situation. It just makes me so frustrated and brings me to tears that we punish children because they have no money to get a decent lunch. But I also live in America so you can't qualify those lunches as decent anyways.
my lunches are free at my high school ( different school system), but i used to be given those too but wasn't lactose intolerant ( it happened about 10 times. it was my fault though, I forgot to tell my parents my account was in the negatives). I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope you are doing well
The thing is, even if your parents don’t have money to give you… I feel like better communication needs to happen between the school and parents or we need to go back to using cash. I had reduced lunch which meant my mom filled out paperwork with our tax info and income and the school board decided my parents didn’t make enough to pay the full $2. The thing was, even with only paying 40 cents my account was in the negative sometimes because who’s parents have time to sort out and pay for a few months of lunches ahead of time?
Ugh I’m so sorry. I’m a teacher and I’ve always kept actual tasty food in my room. Kids know it’s there for them anytime no questions asked. If they show up at lunch time they go help themselves and I’ll heat it up for them or whatever they need.
I remember when I was a teenager and had a eating disorder there was a dinner lady that would come find me and make sure I ate I had free school meals I just never wanted to eat
In my experience, lunch ladies always are the best, they are so sweet. I will never forget the day I didn’t have enough money for lunch, so when I was at my lunch table the lunch lady put a tray on the table and left I will never forget her, never ❤️
I love this woman, she is so on point. I used to work in schools and her imitation of all roles within the organisation is so accurate and hilarious at the same time.
Once in 3rd grade I forgot my lunch money and I was standing near the kitchen. The lady there asked if I would like something and then she gave me a hot dog. Never forgot that lol.
Seeing this made my heart happy, I was turned away so many times at lunch because there wasn’t enough money on my account when I was a kid :/ I wish the school system cared more about childrens health and not about the money
This reminds me of my middle school years where all my friends would go to the restaurants down the street for lunch and idjust sit and watch cuz my mom could only aford to give us a decent dinner so I'd go hungry and watch all my friends eat expensive foods and just laugh along while they'd tell me I was overweight compared to them it was painful and so wished i could've had someone like this
I love the lunch ladies at my school very much for many reasons. There are 2 lunch ladies who have a little hut outside so that we don't have to go to the cafeteria if we are planning on eating outside anyways. Its always the same 2 and they are amazing. I am autistic and so I have sensory issues with wooden spoons. Knowing that, the lunch ladies always keep a metal spoon outside for me so that I don't have to go all the way to the cafeteria to grab one after buying my soup. I have a 5 minute early card that I use to avoid crowded halls, meaning that I am one of the first people outside at lunch. So when they make the teachers lunches they make sure to put aside an extra cup of soup for me when I come out early to get soup. These things just go to show how much these women truly do care about us and our needs and wants. It may be a simple little thing to them but it is so nice to know that they really do care about me being happy
I only ever had nice dinner lady’s I remember one time I was about to cry and the dinner lady saw me and pulled me aside and tried to cheer me up and they always gave me extra apple crumble 💕
I remember when I didn’t have money in my account once and the lunch lady said I couldn’t eat and then my favorite Hispanic lunch lady yelled at her to let me eat since I looked like a malnourished child it was very nice of her
I wish my school had lunch people like this. At my school they started charging $3 for a mini water, it didn't matter if you've gone all day without drinking something or not. Not only that but all the water fountains are still shut down due to covid, and this includes the water bottle refilling stations. The total charge was around $10 per meal. Idk what the heck was going on with that but I'm glad I'ma be doing online school next year
@@Sadpepper exactly. I don't have that kind of money, my family is currently dirt poor. Never was able to get the school lunches. I'd much rather just pick up a blizzard from DQ for lunch, it'd cost less too
It makes me mad when schools charge outrageous prices for food because I know they can afford to buy it, especially when they have all this fancy equipment for expensive sports teams. Then they complain that the school barley has enough money. The whole thing doesn't make sense to me. I know that some schools are different but this is how it goes down most of the time. 😭🤦♀️
@@Sadpepper it makes me mad too. The school I was at last year (when I wrote that comment) is one of two highschools in the country, and it's been around since the 1930s. For the longest time it was the only highschool, so at the times when it had the lowest number of students (when a ton of students were out sick for example), there were still over 3,000 kids in the building. That means that on average attendance days they could make up to a bit less than $9,000 per day JUST FROM WATERS. I know they don't get to keep it all, so say they have to pay $2 out of each water bottle sale to where they're sourcing it from, they're still making a bit over $3,000 per day just from water bottle sales. Absolutely infuriating and outrageous, especially because the majority of my county is in moderate to severe poverty.
Yeah, it kinda makes me wonder what the schools do with all that money.. I mean I have some sense but I don't know why they would do that to someone. Especially because you couldn't use you're water fountains due to covid. I'm glad you don't have to pay $10 per meal anymore since you're doing online school though.
At my school kids who get turned away, I used to walk up with my card and buy it for them from my account. I finished 6th form last week, so I hope someone else takes my place. I never bought food from school, my parents put alot if money on my card from when I was in year 7 as I used to buy their shortbread, so I'd I saw a kiddo with a lunch tray getting turned away, I'd leave my packed lunch and pay for it for them. Even if the kid just wants some water, it's on me. :3
My old primary school had a dinner lady who remembered what every kid liked and she always saved me a piece of apple crumble and if it was Christmas dinner a trifle she also made sure I didn’t have Brussel sprouts she made my sister a trifle with out custard every single year she passed while I was in my last year their I miss her...
I've been denied for food before too. But the sweet dinner lady paid for me. I loved that woman, she was an icon. She started calling me pasta girl lol
when I was in school (graduated 11 years ago now haha) I would walk about 2 miles there every day and look in the road and sidewalks for any change trying to get enough for lunch. I always tried so hard to get enough for a salad because I was overweight and hated it but they were more expensive so I'd end up with the unhealthy cheaper food or nothing. you could go through the line and be holding your food but if there wasn't enough money they'd take it back and just watch you walk away hungry and embarrassed. if only I had cafeteria workers like this.
I saw a video on twitter the other day about a dinner lady having to tell kids they can't have any lunch because they don't have any money on their account due to the cost of living crisis, and it broke her heart and mine too. Every kid should get a lunch, it might be the only meal they get that day
This is gonna make me cry because at one point my account hadn't been paid because we were struggling and my mom hadn't been able to sort it out. The lunch ladies let me get lunch anyway until my mom was able to pay it off.
Oh lord, this reminded me of a time where my friend had to go to the office to get their account balance topped up. Issue was the school's admin system is so trash that it takes a day or so for anything to get through, and that's if you're on the system and lucky. Now, if you go the office and verbally ask them to call your parents to top up your account they'll either forget until way later, call your parents on the spot or not at all. This meant that my friend sat there for the entirety of lunch with no food except what me and my friends could pitch in (dumb one school meal a day per account rule)
The first time my fiance brought me to meet his mom I saw her and remembered her as the lunch lady in my cafeteria in high school that let me get lunch one day even though I didn't have enough money. She still makes sure I eat whenever ai go over lol. I love her.
We all need cafeteria ladies like this. I remember once I didn’t have food at high school. I hadn’t had breakfast either and didn’t have any money on my account. I only had cash but they stopped accepting cash due to COVID. I went to see if I could get some food. Went to the till but they never accepted the cash. I told her I didn’t have any money on my account and she let me have my food (she was my primary school lunch lady and also a neighbour) I’ve never forgotten her kindness
When I was in primary school one of my friends mums was a lunch lady and she knew how picky of an eater I was and also that the headteacher would stand by the bin and not let us go unless we had eaten what she qualified as enough (even if we didn't like it she'd make us eat it) so she would always just give me a little bit of the foods I didn't like so it would look like I ate enough. I'm always so grateful to her for that.
I will never forget the time a lunch lady i was intimidated by had me come up to her during lunch when most people were sitting to take off 30$ of overdue charges on lunch fees because "she saw me sitting there with the saddest face she'd ever seen on a kids face." I was so relieved (and incredibly depressed because I had no friends and was frequently bullied- on top of a moderately rough and traumatic upbringing) I mumbled thank you and turned away, she didn't hear my thank you and told me to come back and say it so I looked her in the eyes and raised my voice to say Thank You.
i had a lunch lady just like this. she was a short old asian lady and she would always give me free food when i couldnt afford it. im really grateful because i never had to go hungry for most of the while she was working there. my family are immigrants and we cant afford to pay for lunch everyday so i decided i dont need lunch wveyday but she was so kind and always gave me food
i remember my school turning down kids who couldn’t afford lunch. they probably didn’t eat anything at home either, that was the only chance they had to eat a warm meal, i wish all lunch ladies were like this.
I remember once when I was waiting in line and every Friday we have like lots of food then normal and I wanted to get rice & H Chicken, ice tea, ice block and spring rolls and I had just enough money and this kid took all of it and the lunch ladies pay for it all and gave me 20 dollars god bless them
these sort of dinner ladies never sorted it out later. lol
the real mvp's!
Yes.
That's the best tho it just means they cared enough
Yup
Facts
My dinner lady once paid for my lunch I haven’t forgotten that moment and it’s been years
If she did that for you, how many others did she help out? No one will ever know.
Did you pay her back?
@@popol8622 yes
you make me 😭😭😭
Help her back
If a child is legally required to be in school, they should get a free lunch!
Yeah and COVID has shown it doesn't break the bank, these schools are perfectly capable of spending thousands to charter new sports teams after all that. Honestly the tater tots they sell more than make up for all the costs of the whole lunch operation, everyone loves them and the lines at the snack bar get really long
But they're not legally required to be in school. They have to get an education, home school is a valid option
@@cottoncandiez8872 yea but the parents have to prove they are giving them a valid education in some way and if they dont they are legally required to go to public school. Because how can a parent prove a good education if both parents are working full time.
In Ireland you just bring your own lunch like no school that isn't boarding or private has food
With all the taxes and funds these schools get, I would hope so!
Representing the dinner ladies up and down this land who with their warmth and kindness, serve us our dinners before we run off and go back to our football/spelling/mental maths
*legends* 👏👏👏💖
Dinner ladies are truly one of the jobs that provide the most kindness and warmth to people a doctors still gonna force you to pay a arm and a leg for his efforts a lawyer may be greedy and corrupt but a lunch lady demands no pay for there service and gives the absolute most kindness to people (if your reading this and your still in school let the lunch lady know you appreciate them or give them some money for how nice they act )
@@Bacon2000. I never go to my schls canteen bc I have packed lunch
sometimes when I go to game theory I always need a lot of food and the cafes always are there for me❤ *moment of silence for the cafes they have there because it’s delicious*
I was leo on many occasions, whenever a cafeteria lady gave me my food anyways I was so grateful 🧡
Same
I am Leo and no one gave me free lunch :((
@@retroleoxo i dont think lotus is talking about the name leo, their talking about the character
@@kyliesworldd I'm aware..
@@kyliesworldd I was literally just making a joke...
I was an exchange student in the UK and the lunch ladies were prob the only ones who treated me like an actual human being. hahaha, being so far away from home and being asked, "what can I get for you, love?" was so touching.
Which part of the UK were you in?
The dinner ladies in Wales Primary Schools are always the best!!I love them and bc I live near my old school I always wave at them and they remember me!!
@@abigailmarshall-zx4fyI agree! Mine was called Julia, she was the best!
This broke my heart when I was in school.
I watched lunch ladies dump a kids tray in the trash because they didn't have enough money.
I always tried to share what I had
Why would they waste the food instead of give it to the starving child. It’s not like it’s the kids fault that they have no money…
How disgusting and illogical! They'd rather throw it away than give it to a hungry child 😭
Wtf? That's awful and downright cruel! I'm not surprised just horrified really.
You're a good person ❤❤
the fact that they would rather waste the food chucking it in the bin than let a child eat (esp since it’s likely that’s their only proper meal if they have financial issues paying). it makes me fucking sick to the core. obviously it’s not about money if they’re fine trashing it. imagine the kid seeing their tray dumped out, knowing the adults entrusted w their care & well-being would rather bin their lunch than let them eat. how horrible & demoralising. idc if it sounds mean, i wish every adult who would starve a poor baby like that, trashing their lunch in front of their little hopeful face, has a period in their lives where they can’t get food, are starving, and are turned away as disgustingly as they did to a sweet baby. so they can feel in their core the way they made a child feel
No joke, these " dotty" sketches are my absolute favorite to watch. 😁👍
Dotty makes me want to cry … that’s exactly how it should be. No child should ever be starving or sitting on a chair looking at others eating while pretending not to be hungry. 🥺😫. I know that feeling
I remember that in high school. We had mega negatives, but were always fed.
The way it should be. Food isn't optional, it's not a luxury. _Especially_ when it comes to growing bodies.
Our school tracked the meals too much for the ladies to give out free entrees , but they would give you as much as you wanted of the “sides” that often got refused like Hummus and carrots, whole wheat crackers, and an apple or banana ❤
“Especially when it’s pizza day, are you mad?”
I swear the lunch ladies are some of the sweetest ladies out of the whole school they help us out more than the so called “school therapists”
In my experience? That was NOT a high bar to climb 😂 (And from working with teens the last decade? The bar has not risen)
That made me smile. So wholesome ^_^
This hit me, my brothers name is Leo. We grew up poor and we have missed meals. 😢 Thanks to all the folks who are like this fictional lunch lady. God bless them.
Dotty the dinner lady will always have your back 😁😍
Dinner ladies like this saved my life when my parents forgot to feed me
This lady makes my day.
She actually reminds me of my old HR manager which I love.
I remember when the lunch lady recognized me and what I ordered (when that food was served) and i was so grateful. She was the cutest little ol lunch lady :)
Whoever has a lunch lady like this is lucky mine NEVER smile and NEVER talk and are just genuinely misrable
Love Dotty 💜💜💜 I had a dotty of my own back in school! She helped me a couple of times when I was short on cash. Thank god for these kind of lunch ladies!
I love the dinner/lunch lady videos. They give me a warm, fuzzy feeling 🥰
I remember in elementary school there were days that my family couldn't afford the food or there was no money in my account because we were in-between pay weeks so I would have to get a single cheese sandwich that was cold and a water cup. This happen once in about 2nd grade. I went through the line and got to the till and my account got declined so the lady pulled me off to the side and gave me the cup and sandwich and I walked out of the line crying because so embarrassed it happened in front of my friends and I was lactose intolerant so couldn't eat. I sat down at the table and my friends were all super worried about me so gave me some of their food when I explained my situation. It just makes me so frustrated and brings me to tears that we punish children because they have no money to get a decent lunch. But I also live in America so you can't qualify those lunches as decent anyways.
my lunches are free at my high school ( different school system), but i used to be given those too but wasn't lactose intolerant ( it happened about 10 times. it was my fault though, I forgot to tell my parents my account was in the negatives). I'm sorry that happened to you. I hope you are doing well
The thing is, even if your parents don’t have money to give you… I feel like better communication needs to happen between the school and parents or we need to go back to using cash. I had reduced lunch which meant my mom filled out paperwork with our tax info and income and the school board decided my parents didn’t make enough to pay the full $2. The thing was, even with only paying 40 cents my account was in the negative sometimes because who’s parents have time to sort out and pay for a few months of lunches ahead of time?
I’m so sorry that that happened to you and hope things are better now.
Wow, just started school again and lunches at my highschool are the only ones in the county that are not free. Thank you school system...
Ugh I’m so sorry. I’m a teacher and I’ve always kept actual tasty food in my room. Kids know it’s there for them anytime no questions asked. If they show up at lunch time they go help themselves and I’ll heat it up for them or whatever they need.
Love you, Dotty
Man that reminds me of my old dinner lady, she was lovely. Didn’t let you mess about but she’d never see you go away hungry
The best kind of lunch lady. My school had some mean ones but there were a few like this that would not stand to see a kid without a lunch
I remember when I was a teenager and had a eating disorder there was a dinner lady that would come find me and make sure I ate I had free school meals I just never wanted to eat
In my experience, lunch ladies always are the best, they are so sweet.
I will never forget the day I didn’t have enough money for lunch, so when I was at my lunch table the lunch lady put a tray on the table and left
I will never forget her, never ❤️
Lunch ladies literally are the best
I love this woman, she is so on point. I used to work in schools and her imitation of all roles within the organisation is so accurate and hilarious at the same time.
Honestly these were the lunch lady’s that kept me from starving at school ,(I had money for a lunch acc but I had a horrible memory)
These are wholesome
Idk why I find these videos so comforting and wholesale 🤣
Once in 3rd grade I forgot my lunch money and I was standing near the kitchen. The lady there asked if I would like something and then she gave me a hot dog. Never forgot that lol.
Seeing this made my heart happy, I was turned away so many times at lunch because there wasn’t enough money on my account when I was a kid :/ I wish the school system cared more about childrens health and not about the money
The dinner lady we all wished we had😂😂
We love these people. Respect to the dinner ladies who won’t let any child starve just because they’re out of money.❤
I love Dotty. She’s epic. Every school should have her.
This reminds me of my middle school years where all my friends would go to the restaurants down the street for lunch and idjust sit and watch cuz my mom could only aford to give us a decent dinner so I'd go hungry and watch all my friends eat expensive foods and just laugh along while they'd tell me I was overweight compared to them it was painful and so wished i could've had someone like this
I love the lunch ladies at my school very much for many reasons.
There are 2 lunch ladies who have a little hut outside so that we don't have to go to the cafeteria if we are planning on eating outside anyways. Its always the same 2 and they are amazing.
I am autistic and so I have sensory issues with wooden spoons. Knowing that, the lunch ladies always keep a metal spoon outside for me so that I don't have to go all the way to the cafeteria to grab one after buying my soup.
I have a 5 minute early card that I use to avoid crowded halls, meaning that I am one of the first people outside at lunch. So when they make the teachers lunches they make sure to put aside an extra cup of soup for me when I come out early to get soup.
These things just go to show how much these women truly do care about us and our needs and wants. It may be a simple little thing to them but it is so nice to know that they really do care about me being happy
I only ever had nice dinner lady’s I remember one time I was about to cry and the dinner lady saw me and pulled me aside and tried to cheer me up and they always gave me extra apple crumble 💕
This give me so many feels for some reason. 🥰❤️ God bless the lunch ladies
I remember when I didn’t have money in my account once and the lunch lady said I couldn’t eat and then my favorite Hispanic lunch lady yelled at her to let me eat since I looked like a malnourished child it was very nice of her
The Northern accent is so relatable for it though
"It's pizza day, are ya'mad?" 😂😂
Love all the Dotty's. They really do make the world go round
I wish my school had lunch people like this. At my school they started charging $3 for a mini water, it didn't matter if you've gone all day without drinking something or not. Not only that but all the water fountains are still shut down due to covid, and this includes the water bottle refilling stations. The total charge was around $10 per meal. Idk what the heck was going on with that but I'm glad I'ma be doing online school next year
10 dollars PER MEAL!?! You might as well order dominoes pizza for lunch everyday if you're gonna pay that much. 😤😮💨
@@Sadpepper exactly. I don't have that kind of money, my family is currently dirt poor. Never was able to get the school lunches. I'd much rather just pick up a blizzard from DQ for lunch, it'd cost less too
It makes me mad when schools charge outrageous prices for food because I know they can afford to buy it, especially when they have all this fancy equipment for expensive sports teams. Then they complain that the school barley has enough money. The whole thing doesn't make sense to me. I know that some schools are different but this is how it goes down most of the time. 😭🤦♀️
@@Sadpepper it makes me mad too. The school I was at last year (when I wrote that comment) is one of two highschools in the country, and it's been around since the 1930s. For the longest time it was the only highschool, so at the times when it had the lowest number of students (when a ton of students were out sick for example), there were still over 3,000 kids in the building. That means that on average attendance days they could make up to a bit less than $9,000 per day JUST FROM WATERS. I know they don't get to keep it all, so say they have to pay $2 out of each water bottle sale to where they're sourcing it from, they're still making a bit over $3,000 per day just from water bottle sales. Absolutely infuriating and outrageous, especially because the majority of my county is in moderate to severe poverty.
Yeah, it kinda makes me wonder what the schools do with all that money..
I mean I have some sense but I don't know why they would do that to someone. Especially because you couldn't use you're water fountains due to covid. I'm glad you don't have to pay $10 per meal anymore since you're doing online school though.
At my school kids who get turned away, I used to walk up with my card and buy it for them from my account. I finished 6th form last week, so I hope someone else takes my place.
I never bought food from school, my parents put alot if money on my card from when I was in year 7 as I used to buy their shortbread, so I'd I saw a kiddo with a lunch tray getting turned away, I'd leave my packed lunch and pay for it for them. Even if the kid just wants some water, it's on me. :3
Honestly, Dotty would be a great replacement for a lot of the dinner ladies at my school!
Awesome. Love Dottie 👍🏻😊
this made me want to cry. never would happen in the schools i went to lol
These dinner ladies were the best
If it weren’t for lunch ladies like Dolly I would’ve been hungry most days of school. So special!
My old primary school had a dinner lady who remembered what every kid liked and she always saved me a piece of apple crumble and if it was Christmas dinner a trifle she also made sure I didn’t have Brussel sprouts she made my sister a trifle with out custard every single year she passed while I was in my last year their I miss her...
"ARE YA MAD ?!" 🤣
I just love her accent 😂lol
I've been denied for food before too. But the sweet dinner lady paid for me.
I loved that woman, she was an icon. She started calling me pasta girl lol
Especially on pizza day ARE YOU MAD?!
😂
when I was in school (graduated 11 years ago now haha) I would walk about 2 miles there every day and look in the road and sidewalks for any change trying to get enough for lunch. I always tried so hard to get enough for a salad because I was overweight and hated it but they were more expensive so I'd end up with the unhealthy cheaper food or nothing. you could go through the line and be holding your food but if there wasn't enough money they'd take it back and just watch you walk away hungry and embarrassed. if only I had cafeteria workers like this.
Dotty is so totally adorable
I saw a video on twitter the other day about a dinner lady having to tell kids they can't have any lunch because they don't have any money on their account due to the cost of living crisis, and it broke her heart and mine too. Every kid should get a lunch, it might be the only meal they get that day
i just love this woman ❤
“Especially not on pizza day,are you mad?”
I think he is 😭
This is gonna make me cry because at one point my account hadn't been paid because we were struggling and my mom hadn't been able to sort it out. The lunch ladies let me get lunch anyway until my mom was able to pay it off.
Dinner ladies like this are just angels. Also people like this don't sort it out another day.
As a Leo myself I felt so appreciated rn. Thank you miss!❤
Why is she so sweet I need her in my life right now
Oh lord, this reminded me of a time where my friend had to go to the office to get their account balance topped up.
Issue was the school's admin system is so trash that it takes a day or so for anything to get through, and that's if you're on the system and lucky.
Now, if you go the office and verbally ask them to call your parents to top up your account they'll either forget until way later, call your parents on the spot or not at all. This meant that my friend sat there for the entirety of lunch with no food except what me and my friends could pitch in (dumb one school meal a day per account rule)
These ladies are legends 👏
I loveeeeeee lunch ladies like this, their always so kind
Everyone needs a Dotty in their life.
I spent a couple of months working in a school canteen this is very accurate
The first time my fiance brought me to meet his mom I saw her and remembered her as the lunch lady in my cafeteria in high school that let me get lunch one day even though I didn't have enough money. She still makes sure I eat whenever ai go over lol. I love her.
The accent is like the dinner ladys at my school- like when she says:
“Er,Kerry” and “Wait a second love”
We all need cafeteria ladies like this. I remember once I didn’t have food at high school. I hadn’t had breakfast either and didn’t have any money on my account. I only had cash but they stopped accepting cash due to COVID. I went to see if I could get some food. Went to the till but they never accepted the cash. I told her I didn’t have any money on my account and she let me have my food (she was my primary school lunch lady and also a neighbour) I’ve never forgotten her kindness
LOVE Dotty! Please keep bringing her back. The world and RUclips needs more Dottys.
'Esspiacly not when its pizza day are u mad' got me
She’s so good… this is brilliant 😂❤
The way thatcher literally outlawed that 🥴
re watch this a million time. I'm so english, i'm not self lady, but... bring me a giant smile on my face, and melted my heart for a... idkreason
I wish the dinner ladies at my school were like this.
When I was in primary school one of my friends mums was a lunch lady and she knew how picky of an eater I was and also that the headteacher would stand by the bin and not let us go unless we had eaten what she qualified as enough (even if we didn't like it she'd make us eat it) so she would always just give me a little bit of the foods I didn't like so it would look like I ate enough. I'm always so grateful to her for that.
I will never forget the time a lunch lady i was intimidated by had me come up to her during lunch when most people were sitting to take off 30$ of overdue charges on lunch fees because "she saw me sitting there with the saddest face she'd ever seen on a kids face." I was so relieved (and incredibly depressed because I had no friends and was frequently bullied- on top of a moderately rough and traumatic upbringing) I mumbled thank you and turned away, she didn't hear my thank you and told me to come back and say it so I looked her in the eyes and raised my voice to say Thank You.
i had a lunch lady just like this. she was a short old asian lady and she would always give me free food when i couldnt afford it. im really grateful because i never had to go hungry for most of the while she was working there. my family are immigrants and we cant afford to pay for lunch everyday so i decided i dont need lunch wveyday but she was so kind and always gave me food
I absolutely love this kinda of lunch lady she usually so sweet I just love it😃😃
i swear they all had the same accent too 😭
I've had my lunch taken from me loads of time and nothing like this ever happens lol
always go home starving and my mum calling the school real angry
I love the way she talks like”Magareta oa peparoni?”
Not all hero’s wear capes
The lunch ladies were always a vibe.
i remember my school turning down kids who couldn’t afford lunch. they probably didn’t eat anything at home either, that was the only chance they had to eat a warm meal, i wish all lunch ladies were like this.
I wish we had a lunch lady like you when I was at school. ❤
I swear literally in every primary school there is a lunch lady named kerry😂
I remember once when I was waiting in line and every Friday we have like lots of food then normal and I wanted to get rice & H Chicken, ice tea, ice block and spring rolls and I had just enough money and this kid took all of it and the lunch ladies pay for it all and gave me 20 dollars god bless them
School lunches weren't amazing when I was a kid, but they were free, and children shouldn't be denied food. I love this sort of dinner lady.
Wow I wish I had dinner ladies like this 😭
Wish I had her in high school ❤️ I skipped so many lunches
I love this, they always did this for me ❤
Love this character more than an other character ever!!
not me sobbing at this lady actually talking to herself
This is the most relatable thing I have seen in my LIFE