2:02 800 runner Rebecca Mehra's virus tweet about buying groceries for 80 yr old couple goes viral

Good for her. Not sure what to think about the bunch of insecure losers on here who feel the need to criticize a kind act. I guess that's part for the LRC course.

zzzz wrote:

NBA is unwatchable wrote:

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.

Maybe. My dad doesn't even have a cell phone, much less a smartphone, so that might work for some and not others.

The older couple could have called the store or asked a neighbor for help. Hanging out in the parking lot and giving a stranger $100, is a little hard to believe. At best, it's self-serving for her to post her story.

The only thing in this story that happened, is that she went to the grocery store. She then imagined this scenario.

Happy to hear it wrote:

Good for her. Not sure what to think about the bunch of insecure losers on here who feel the need to criticize a kind act. I guess that's part for the LRC course.

I think people have a problem with the Virtue signalling.

Virtue signaling and humble bragging. Gross.

Truly despise any and all "inspirational" stories where the person telling it is the protagonist.

Happy to hear it wrote:

Good for her. Not sure what to think about the bunch of insecure losers on here who feel the need to criticize a kind act. I guess that's part for the LRC course.

Altruistic acts are not altruistic if you need to be praised for them. (Or make them up in the first place then be praised for them!)

Stanford + Oiselle = virtue-signalling BS story. What a joke.

Is this self promotion via virtue signaling primarily a female thing? I looked at the social media of a relative who apparently makes a living in marketing non-profits. Very white women on the backs of "helping the poor and disadvantaged" while actually doing practically nothing for anyone. The friend group was a who's who of regional virtue signalers. Female. I know some men who do it too, and lots of men who condone it in women, but it's mostly women.

These virtue signaling profiteers are the new religious priests sheering the flock.

zzzz wrote:

NBA is unwatchable wrote:

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.

Maybe. My dad doesn't even have a cell phone, much less a smartphone, so that might work for some and not others.

Look, if they can't operate a smartphone then they shouldn't operate a 3,000 pound vehicle. Nothing about this situation is okay. If you can put everyone else's life in danger driving your car around, you can use a smartphone.

bigBrain wrote:

These virtue signaling profiteers are the new religious priests sheering the flock.

With religious nuts the proclamation is "Praise the Lord!". With SJWs it is "Praise MEEEE!!"

how does it make sense that they wait 45' in a CAR trerrified of blacks instead of driving a few minutes elsewhere?

also, calling anglos 'white' is wrong. furthetmore, a name like mehra being clearly middle eastern should also tip you off. becky looks moroccan/anglo mix

scared but not just now wrote:

how does it make sense that they wait 45' in a CAR trerrified of blacks instead of driving a few minutes elsewhere?

also, calling anglos 'white' is wrong. furthetmore, a name like mehra being clearly middle eastern should also tip you off. becky looks moroccan/anglo mix

Are there black people in Bend, OR? According to Wikipedia it's about 90% white.

there must be. and for sure it's not 90% white. you must mean 90% caucasoid whatever

Watched her tell the story on CNN today: https://www.facebook.com/cnn/videos/1084789221873963/

They are in their 80s - why are they afraid of death?

They should have moved to The Villages two decades ago .

Bloomberg would have preferred they die .

And she did not“buy” the groceries.

She purchased them with their money.

Kid in a balloon story.

I generally concur in the skepticism others have on this board.

But I know Rebecca (she went to the same high school, but much later than I did). This is not self-promotion or opportunism to somehow grab the spotlight.

She's genuine and this is just her being kind like we all ought to be in a similar situation. Nothing wrong with being nice to an older couple. It is actually kind of cool, in my opinion.

stinker found a sponsor correct jacket to wear on the news. Bend is whiter than Southpark

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

You obviously don't get it. Not all people know how to do that or even that it exists. Plus not everyone lives in areas where there is a delivery grocery store. I can definitely see people who were old and had no family doing this. I'd just buy a mask and do it myself but that's me. I'm only 30 and I've never once bought anything off amazon. Never been on that site in my life. My mom loves it and I don't know any eighty year olds that want to work a iPhone let alone own one.