NBA is unwatchable wrote:
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.
The modern version is:
Build a man a fire, you keep him warm for a night. Set a man on fire, he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
registereds (aka paid trolls- forums are made to form opinions, they're for sale to corporations) coming out to resurrect the thread when no one cares amymore and turn it back to 'she's so great, a childhood friend this is real frfr'... yeah sure buddy
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.[/quote]
What a ridiculous analogy. At 80 years old they likely have 60+ years experience driving a car. They probably don’t own a Smartphone, or if they do don’t use it for ordering food.
jethro for hire wrote:
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.
What a ridiculous analogy. At 80 years old they likely have 60+ years experience driving a car. They probably don’t own a Smartphone, or if they do don’t use it for ordering food.[/quote]
smartphone operation and use should be required for a driver's license. Keep morons off the road.
no accidents wrote:
jethro for hire wrote:
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.
What a ridiculous analogy. At 80 years old they likely have 60+ years experience driving a car. They probably don’t own a Smartphone, or if they do don’t use it for ordering food.
smartphone operation and use should be required for a driver's license. Keep morons off the road.[/quote]
According to this study less than 20% of people over 80 use smartphones:
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/05/think-older-people-are-technophobes-think-againBelieve it or not, in the past, 100% of drivers didn't have smartphones.
The parts of her story that are unbelievable are:
The elderly couple were so isolated. If they had children or grandchildren, they could call them and explain their predicament and one would have placed an order for them. Any decent neighbor would have helped them out. A cleaning person or a caregiver would have helped. They also could have called Safeway.
Bend, Oregon is probably full of decent, God fearing, Trump voting people, so the 45-minute wait for the "right" person is ridiculous. At a typical Safeway, about a hundred people would have walked by their car during that time.
The talking through a crack in the window is over the top paranoia. It is also poor etiquette to do so with someone you want a somewhat significant favor from and she was going to be touching the groceries, anyway.
Maybe things have changed with social media, but most people don't toot their horn over doing doing something that most other people would do.
Look, it sounds like they were scared. They're in their 80s. The disease has a high mortality rate specifically in the over 80s. It's frightening. I don't really think it's fair to criticise them. They may well be people who have immune system compromised etc.
Also, a huge amount of people are isolated, more isolated than you can probably imagine. A lot don't have kids, grandkids - or aren't in contact with them. They go about their lives on their own, day in day out.
crumpolina wrote:
Look, it sounds like they were scared. They're in their 80s. The disease has a high mortality rate specifically in the over 80s. It's frightening. I don't really think it's fair to criticise them. They may well be people who have immune system compromised etc.
I'm not criticizing them at all; I'm saying the story is made up. The story has several components that are doubtful and when combined, the story is unlikely to be true.
Mehra claims it's not about her, but she has no problem appearing on T.V. to talk about it. Many people would have done the same thing she did without posting the story on social media. Other people would have asked the Safeway employees if there was a phone number the couple could use for the next time. Mehra, herself, could have gotten their contact information to get them some help.
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?
Jakob Ingebrigtsen has a 1989 Ferrari 348 GTB and he's just put in paperwork to upgrade it
Move over Mark Coogan, Rojo and John Kellogg share their 3 favorite mile workouts
Mark Coogan says that if you could only do 3 workouts as a 1500m runner you should do these