A 99-year-old couldn’t buy anything on his shopping list except a comb amid coronavirus panic buying and then a kind stranger stepped in.
32-year-old Dan Scott spotted OAP Norman who was trying to buy beans, eggs, and Marmite and other items on his shopping list but was unable to find in a branch of Tesco in Basildon, Essex.
Dan stepped in to help him but was left heartbroken when he couldn’t find anything on Norman’s shopping list except a comb.
He explained the heartbreaking moment in a post on Facebook: “Sadly, in these times, I couldn’t get Norman anything off his list but a comb. I was devastated.”
Dan decided to help the 99-year-old, who told him he’d eaten better during the war, and gave him his number.
Dan asked him to call him with his shopping list the next day.
When Dan asked Norman how he was getting home, he told him he was driving.
Dan was left shocked and emotional as the man is 99-year-old and he is struggling to find things.
He wrote: “I was truly overcome with emotion when he left me and thought, ‘How can this man not get any food?'”
Dan asked someone in Tesco to do him some overnight shopping and even asked his neighbors if they had some spare items.
He received an overwhelming response as he managed to get a huge hamper of food for Norman with the help of his friends and neighbors.
Dan and his colleague Carole showed up at Norman’s house with everything on his shopping list and a lot more.
Dan wrote: “He was so grateful and said, ‘I’ll live like a king until I’m 100 now’.”
He then urged everyone to stop selfishly clearing the shelves as people like Norman can’t go out every day to buy basic food items.
He concluded his post: “I feel so happy today knowing Norman has food tonight, but how many more Normans are there right now because of the most selfish, disgusting people in this world.”
The post has now gone viral on the Internet and it is a great lesson to those who are clearing the shelves without even thinking of others.
Internet users applauded Dan and criticized selfish stockpilers.
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