An athlete, from Bend, Oregon, has shared a heartfelt message on social media after she came across an elderly couple stuck in a supermarket car park.
Rebecca Mehra told the elderly couple had been sitting in the supermarket car park for 45 minutes because they were too afraid to enter the supermarket.
When the woman spotted Rebecca, she yelled to her and told her with tears in her eyes that they were afraid to go to the store.
Rebecca wrote on Twitter: “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.”
The woman handed Rebecca a $100 bill and a grocery list and asked if she would buy her groceries.
Rebecca bought the groceries and placed them in the trunk.
Rebecca added: “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.”
She urged everyone to help their community members as not everyone has people to help them out.
She concluded: “I know it’s a time of hysteria and nerves, but offer to help anyone you can. Not everyone has people to turn to.”
The post instantly went viral online and people praised Rebecca for helping the elderly couple instead of making a distance from them as everyone is doing these days amid coronavirus fears.
A few days back, an Aldi shopper shared a heartbreaking incident that they witnessed during the coronavirus panic buying.
An unnamed Aldi shopper took to Facebook to tell that when they were in a very long line at Aldi with their daughter to buy bananas, they noticed an elderly man who was doing his weekly shopping.
The elderly man told them he had been to two supermarkets already before Aldi to find basic food items but couldn’t find anything due to the coronavirus panic buying.
The shopper urged everyone to look after one another and stop ‘selfishly clearing the shelves’ in order to have enough food and water for everyone.
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