It's overly complicated, nuanced social etiquette but what you're supposed to do to be polite in that situation is make them eat whatever you cooked, you eat what they ordered for themselves, and save for later the food they got for you.
Yeah they paddled if your parents signed the form. If your parents didn't sign the form then instead of being paddled for a minute and sent back to class they would force your parents to come pick you up and take you home for at least the rest of the day. Kids who got paddled always came back and were like it was w/e. A weirdly formal process of standing there and getting paddled in the butt w a piece of wood. Sometimes old fat lady teachers would say to kids acting up "stop it Bradley, or I'll send you to the office and it won't be me or Mrs Principal spanking you, I'll get Mr. Large male teacher to hwhack your asshole"
I don't smoke cigarettes and don't drink much caffeine and don't touch prescription medication. So yeah, $90 gets me a quarter which lasts over a month with the difference going toward occasional binge drinking. So maybe like $4 a day
My state just made proof of insurance required in order to register a vehicle/renew vehicle registration, and drastically increased the fine for driving without insurance, not having car insurance and not having registration are necessities otherwise you'll get pulled into a never ending shit spiral of cops and unaffordable fines and fees
I hate my job because it benefits the millionaire and billionaire corporate owners while no one who works there can afford basic necessities like car insurance or health insurance