Raising your first child can be stressful for new parents. Because sleep and free time become luxuries, many will lean on the kindness of their relatives and friends for help.
But one couple in Philadelphia is, perhaps, expecting a bit much from the people they know, hoping that their chores can be outsourced while they care for the baby.
Jim Burns posted on the site Meal Train asking his neighbors to reach out with support. He felt that could include cooking their meals, cleaning the house, and even walking the dog.
The now deleted request had specific menus written out, which could be left in a cooler he placed outside the home, so as not to be distracted.
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
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
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
