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Rebecca Mehra
@rebecca_mehra
I went to the grocery store this afternoon. As I was walking in I heard a woman yell to me from her car. I walked over and found an elderly woman and her husband. She cracked her window open a bit more, and explained to me nearly in tears that they are afraid to go in the store.
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Afraid to get sick as they are in their 80’s and hear that the novel coronavirus is affecting older people disproportionately. And that they don’t have family around to help them out. Through the crack in the window she handed me a $100 bill and a grocery list, and asked if I
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would be willing to buy her groceries.
I bought the groceries and placed them in her trunk, and gave her back the change. She told me she had been sitting in the car for nearly 45 min before I had arrived, waiting to ask the right person for help.
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I know it’s a time of hysteria and nerves, but offer to help anyone you can. Not everyone has people to turn to.
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Grocery stores deliver these days.
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Yes, but only lazy Millenials are using it.
It's not like the average 80 year old has an iphone with a groceries order app on it. -
Drink more Corona beer wrote:
Yes, but only lazy Millenials are using it.
It's not like the average 80 year old has an iphone with a groceries order app on it.
Wrong. Every 80 year old has an iphone, it's 2020. -
NBA is unwatchable wrote:
Drink more Corona beer wrote:
Yes, but only lazy Millenials are using it.
It's not like the average 80 year old has an iphone with a groceries order app on it.
Wrong. Every 80 year old has an iphone, it's 2020.
Your "Wrong" is wrong. I know quite a few senior citizens who are not computer literate and have a phone that they only know how to make calls on. Particularly as you go down the economic scale you find more non-tech literate seniors. -
I'm calling BS on this story.
These "look at me and how wonderful I am" stories are usually bogus and I suspect this one is no different. -
I love how she spun her story.
Is she naive to believe that she mitigated exposure by bringing groceries out to the car and handling their change? if she contacted anything that was infected and touched groceries, money, check out, etc, etc, etc she risks exposing them.
I'm sure her sponsor was yeasty proud and full of proud cry. hope they don't end up dead. -
ronald mexico, esq wrote:
I love how she spun her story.
Is she naive to believe that she mitigated exposure by bringing groceries out to the car and handling their change? if she contacted anything that was infected and touched groceries, money, check out, etc, etc, etc she risks exposing them.
I'm sure her sponsor was yeasty proud and full of proud cry. hope they don't end up dead.
i'm sure she mitigated the exposure to some degree. -
[quote]some good advice wrote:
. She told me she had been sitting in the car for nearly 45 min before I had arrived, waiting to ask the right person for help./quote]
I'm guessing the old lady with the $100 bill was in a black neighborhood and was looking for the "white" person to ask for help. I would have got her groceries if she asked me. -
70 year old upscale guy wrote:
NBA is unwatchable wrote:
Drink more Corona beer wrote:
Yes, but only lazy Millenials are using it.
It's not like the average 80 year old has an iphone with a groceries order app on it.
Wrong. Every 80 year old has an iphone, it's 2020.
Your "Wrong" is wrong. I know quite a few senior citizens who are not computer literate and have a phone that they only know how to make calls on. Particularly as you go down the economic scale you find more non-tech literate seniors.
The iPhone is the easiest electronic device in history to use. Now would be a good time for 80-year-olds to learn how to push a few buttons rather than rely on strangers to buy their groceries. -
ronald mexico, esq wrote:
I love how she spun her story.
Is she naive to believe that she mitigated exposure by bringing groceries out to the car and handling their change? if she contacted anything that was infected and touched groceries, money, check out, etc, etc, etc she risks exposing them.
I'm sure her sponsor was yeasty proud and full of proud cry. hope they don't end up dead.
Cash is loaded with germs. Instead of buying groceries, she should have spent that time showing them how to use Venmo and/or a delivery service. -
krispy kremlin_._._._ wrote:
I'm calling BS on this story.
These "look at me and how wonderful I am" stories are usually bogus and I suspect this one is no different.
correct, anyone afraid to get sick would order food on amazon or another service, not beg a stranger to grocery shop for them -
Kvothe wrote:
krispy kremlin_._._._ wrote:
I'm calling BS on this story.
These "look at me and how wonderful I am" stories are usually bogus and I suspect this one is no different.
correct, anyone afraid to get sick would order food on amazon or another service, not beg a stranger to grocery shop for them
Sure, but that's not my point.
Rebecca made up this story for the likes and approval of the internet mob. Looking through her twitter feed, I can tell this is a low confidence girl looking for constant attention - the exact profile of someone who would fabricate this kind of feel-good, look-at-me kind of story.
Fake story, fake news, Rebecca is part of the problem. -
krispy kremlin_._._._ wrote:
Kvothe wrote:
krispy kremlin_._._._ wrote:
I'm calling BS on this story.
These "look at me and how wonderful I am" stories are usually bogus and I suspect this one is no different.
correct, anyone afraid to get sick would order food on amazon or another service, not beg a stranger to grocery shop for them
Sure, but that's not my point.
Rebecca made up this story for the likes and approval of the internet mob. Looking through her twitter feed, I can tell this is a low confidence girl looking for constant attention - the exact profile of someone who would fabricate this kind of feel-good, look-at-me kind of story.
Fake story, fake news, Rebecca is part of the problem.
Aw bless, did a woman say something on the internet again? -
A few weeks ago she could give a rat's bunghole about coronavirus or old people:
https://twitter.com/rebecca_mehra/status/1233829760897208321 -
Wow hahaha
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ronald mexico, esq wrote:
Is she naive to believe that she mitigated exposure by bringing groceries out to the car and handling their change?
The old couple mitigated exposure by being in proximity to ONE human being only for just a few seconds, not catching any breaths or cough-joices; in the supermarket there might have been dozens or hundreds milling around or lining up at the till. And they probably declined to ask a few who were wiping their noses or looked dirty before this girl came along. -
NBA is unwatchable wrote:
70 year old upscale guy wrote:
NBA is unwatchable wrote:
Drink more Corona beer wrote:
Yes, but only lazy Millenials are using it.
It's not like the average 80 year old has an iphone with a groceries order app on it.
Wrong. Every 80 year old has an iphone, it's 2020.
Your "Wrong" is wrong. I know quite a few senior citizens who are not computer literate and have a phone that they only know how to make calls on. Particularly as you go down the economic scale you find more non-tech literate seniors.
The iPhone is the easiest electronic device in history to use. Now would be a good time for 80-year-olds to learn how to push a few buttons rather than rely on strangers to buy their groceries.
They are likely unaware that this app even exists. The younger generation is to often self absorbed to understand generational differences. -
i know a lot of old people wrote:
NBA is unwatchable wrote:
70 year old upscale guy wrote:
NBA is unwatchable wrote:
Drink more Corona beer wrote:
Yes, but only lazy Millenials are using it.
It's not like the average 80 year old has an iphone with a groceries order app on it.
Wrong. Every 80 year old has an iphone, it's 2020.
Your "Wrong" is wrong. I know quite a few senior citizens who are not computer literate and have a phone that they only know how to make calls on. Particularly as you go down the economic scale you find more non-tech literate seniors.
The iPhone is the easiest electronic device in history to use. Now would be a good time for 80-year-olds to learn how to push a few buttons rather than rely on strangers to buy their groceries.
They are likely unaware that this app even exists. The younger generation is to often self absorbed to understand generational differences.
My dad is 81 and his first real job was as a computer programmer with IBM, who he ended up working for for 30 years, though mostly not as a programmer (I remember systems analyst as a job title). He is completely clueless about computers and smartphones because he never chose to take an interest. Probably didn't want to deal with it beyond work, and when he retired, the internet w.as just becoming a thing -
i know a lot of old people wrote:
NBA is unwatchable wrote:
70 year old upscale guy wrote:
NBA is unwatchable wrote:
Drink more Corona beer wrote:
Yes, but only lazy Millenials are using it.
It's not like the average 80 year old has an iphone with a groceries order app on it.
Wrong. Every 80 year old has an iphone, it's 2020.
Your "Wrong" is wrong. I know quite a few senior citizens who are not computer literate and have a phone that they only know how to make calls on. Particularly as you go down the economic scale you find more non-tech literate seniors.
The iPhone is the easiest electronic device in history to use. Now would be a good time for 80-year-olds to learn how to push a few buttons rather than rely on strangers to buy their groceries.
They are likely unaware that this app even exists. The younger generation is to often self absorbed to understand generational differences.
Once again, that's why the twitter girl should have showed them the app.
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
