Put cards through neighbours doors the other day, offering emergency support if they're self-isolating. Someone sent one to the local Parish Council so I'm now some sort of coordinator for my part of the village. Which is all fine, although they've set up a WhatsApp group to coordinate through, so I'm having to acquire a second phone (because Facebook isn't getting near my contact list).
First call, "Can you deliver a newspaper to me every day?"
Well, no, that's what the local newsagent employs paper boys for. But I can pop around, tell them you'd like the service, ask them to give you a call, add you to their round, get you up and running, and they're doing it at cost for the duration.
Mentioned to a friend that's volunteered to also help out, and she told me that the WhatsApp group is now attacking me because I should have realised that the caller is actually lonely and wants someone to go round and keep them company.
No. If the caller wants company then they should have asked for company, and not for a newspaper. What's with these weird people imagining that someone asking for A wants B instead? Sure, I could knock on the door, get arrested for harassment, get #MeTooed on Twitter, get socially shunned in my village. Or I could do exactly what the lady calling asked for, and arrange a daily newspaper delivery.
I'm very annoyed. It's probably a good thing I'm not on their WhatsApp group.
