On 12 December 2025, residents queued outside a small shop in Petit-Goâve, southern Haiti. They were buying food after receiving cash assistance from the World Food Programme. Hurricane Melissa had brought deadly flooding in October and killed at least 43 people across Haiti. Joceline Antoine, interviewed while in the line, said that her house and animals were gone and that she had lost five members of her family. This is not a queue whose scarcity should be treated as spectacle. It is the final stage in converting post-disaster assistance into food chosen from a local shop. Its distinctive feature is that recipients were not collecting a standard parcel; they were using WFP support to make purchases themselves. The record preserves both the mechanism of aid and one participant's losses without turning compulsory waiting after disaster into an uplifting anecdote.