This couple having a baby asked their neighbours to cook for them and that was only the start
It’s a very stressful and busy time when you’re about to have a baby and it’s only natural that you might look to family and friends for a little bit of extra help.
But this, well this is next level stuff. It started when @JJFromTheBronx joined a sort of neighbourhood watch kind of thing and it really did escalate from there.
The week I got a thing in my mailbox to join a social network @Nextdoor. People in my neighborhood can alert each other about crime and stuff like that. Great idea! But today someone posted the most ridiculous thing ever (1/?)
— JJ (@JJFromTheBronx) April 18, 2019
“My wife and I are having a baby. I’m starting a meal train because it is our first and neither of us have a clue what we’re doing. If you are feeling neighborly” so I clicked the link bc there is no way these people are asking strangers to make them food bc they have 1 baby(2/?)
— JJ (@JJFromTheBronx) April 18, 2019
Turns out they are in fact asking total strangers to help them and with the most millennial phrasing I have ever seen in my life. (3/?) pic.twitter.com/ex0o9LBKVo
— JJ (@JJFromTheBronx) April 18, 2019
Here’s what it said.
Trying not to be negative, I figured maybe it’s like “if you make a lasagna and make too much, we would accept it”. That would be very reasonable inside a totally unreasonable ask. BUT THERE WERE 30+ SPECIFIC MEALS WITH RECIPES pic.twitter.com/BkE2kBuhyJ
— JJ (@JJFromTheBronx) April 18, 2019
And here they are. In full (scroll down as fast as you like, please).
Then it gets even better.
THEN THEY LET YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DONT LIKE AND IF YOU CANT ACCOMMODATE, YOU CAN COME AND DO THEIR DISHES OR VACCUUM. WASH THEIR FUCKING DISHES OR VACUUM THEIR HOUSE?!?!?!?!?! pic.twitter.com/yJ6IXJ56TW
— JJ (@JJFromTheBronx) April 18, 2019
This guy then tops it all off be telling us we can sign up for a day to text, and if they decide they would rather not see people, WE CAN COOK THEM A MEAL AND LEAVE IT FOR THEM IN A COOLER HIS WILL PROVIDE IN THE YARD BECAUSE HE COULDN’T BE BOTHERED ANSWERING THE DOOR pic.twitter.com/FXtNRgVa8Z
— JJ (@JJFromTheBronx) April 18, 2019
If I don’t egg their house, I deserve an award
— JJ (@JJFromTheBronx) April 18, 2019
There has only been one response and it’s been positive. Now I have 2 houses to egg… pic.twitter.com/ju63XVz7YG
— JJ (@JJFromTheBronx) April 19, 2019
And here are just a few of the things people said after it went very, very viral on Twitter.
If they spent less time writing up ridiculous requests and arrangements, they could have prepped a weeks worth of dinners themselves.
— lauren lin (@laurlintaylor) April 18, 2019
My favorite part is “Dark Chocolate (70%)”
— Mr. Steve (@MrSteveMusic) April 19, 2019
I literally want to drive to this dude’s house and shake the living shit out of him until he realizes he is an actual grown adult.
— Danny Deraney (@DannyDeraney) April 19, 2019
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