“I know it’s a time of hysteria and nerves, but offer to help anyone you can. Not everyone has people to turn to," she later tweeted.
After finishing her workout last Wednesday, Rebecca Mehra stopped by her neighborhood grocery store in Bend, Oregon, to pick up a few things.“I walked over and found an elderly woman and her husband,” Mehra, 25, recounted in a now-viral tweet. “She cracked her window open a bit more, and explained to me nearly in tears that they are afraid to go in the store.”
Mehra picked up her own groceries and headed home. When she told her boyfriend the story later, he said she had to tweet it. So, she took to the internet with her story. By Monday, her story was just about everywhere. Her original post had been retweeted almost 107,000 times and she was featured on cable news and online outlets.
“Thank you for sharing this story,” Cunningham wrote. “I’m a City Councilmember and it inspired me to start a volunteer program for community members to go grocery shopping and run errands for elderly neighbors.”
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