Stupid Guest Tricks

Just to recap, the shelter I'm in closed the house for refurb all of June as well as the last week or two of May. During that time, I and those who had been sleeping in the house were resettled in the garage. However, at some point, some loser chick decided to complain that I had gas, and apparently did enough brown-nosing to the staff to get me kicked out of the garage.
Right after the Fourth of July, the house was reopened, a few weeks ahead of schedule. I went back into the house--for about a week. Then Little Miss Brown-Nose Powertrip got me kicked out again--same reason. I tried telling them what you guys said, even threw in "That's not fair", "That's discrimination", and their answer to all my protests was "We don't care."

I finally got my bug spray out of storage, but not until after I was bitten several times. I've got several bites around my right eye and on my left arm. I'd like to give the person I'm sure is responsible a swift kick where it counts, except there's another woman who looks alot like her, and I don't want to go after an innocent person. Not only that, from my extensive previous experience with bullies, I know this person is the kind who can make an innocent person look guilty as sin despite evidence to the contrary, while making themselves look as innocent as the proverbial lamb. And since this person has the ear of the couple who run the place, I don't have any real recourse.

Any more ideas?

Beano.
Don't know what to say.Don't know who regulates the shelters, but if they get state/county funding, don't think they are able to discriminate based on a medical issue. Facilities usually have a notice posted up on who to contact if there is a problem.
Do they use a fan in the sleeping area? if they point it at you and no one is behind you, cant imagine how anyone could catch a whiff. ;)

I'm with DisneyMom....they probably get some funding from the state or county; so, if I were you, I would contact someone higher up the food chain.

Sorry you're having all these problems. I wish you lived closer and I could help out.

They actually gave me a bottle of Beano. Do you they found that that stuff not only doesn't work, but it can make the problem worse? Besides, one of the ingredients in it is mannitol. I remember mannitol back in the 60s and 70s, when it was used as an artficial sweetener of diabetic products; they didn't have much in the way of low calorie stuff back then. You eat more than a little bit of that stuff, and you will be camping out in the bathroom constantly! There are ceiling fans in the house which are used, but quite frankly, we all hear each other's farts, but I never can smell them. I can't even smell my own, and my nose works fine, thank you.

No, it's run by Catholic Worker. The city has sued them before for having a shelter in a residential area, when apparently only a mission can operate. Shelters have to be in an industrial zone. Santa Ana hates the homeless, but the irony is, they probably have more homeless people per square mile than, say, Los Angeles. Used to be a family shelter, but now it's women only. And it's about the only emergency shelter around.

felinefan wrote:There are ceiling fans in the house which are used, but quite frankly, we all hear each other's farts, but I never can smell them. I can't even smell my own, and my nose works fine

No, it's run by Catholic Worker.

Could have gone all year without knowing this. If Catholic operated, call, go over to The Mother House ( O C Diocese) Speak with The Bishop's staff. Not that difficult. Just off Main in Orange, in back of St. Joseph's Hosp. Look for the tall brownish bell tower. Told you you should have gone to Our Lady of Guadalupe for help. Soooo, how do you surmise we all can help you?