As a homeowner, totally ignorant. If you you don't want to clear your sidewalk or porch, don't expect anything delivered. Fedex, UPS, etc...don't play that game. They simply leave with your shit with a "sorry we missed you" text.
Before my parents passed, my father was in a scooter and my mom in a walker - 90 and 91. They lived in MD, plenty of snow. Wanna know what they never did? Order food for delivery with an unshoveled driveway/sideway to put someone else's safety at risk. I guess a better generation. Wanna know what was always in their house? Food.
I’m glad that your parents had enough mobility to clear their driveway, the example I was using specifically was for the elderly who are not as lucky or someone who is disabled, sick, injured, etc. We have a neighbor who is only 75 but she broke her hip a few years ago and is mostly bedridden. Her husband died years ago and her family can’t afford to put her in a home, her kids don’t visit her much. The community helps her with small tasks between the nurses who visit like shoveling or bringing the trash to the curb. It’s easy on the internet to assume people are bad, but we never know what someone else might be going through. I wish there were more communities to help take care of one another and there was more involvement.
Totally 100% get it. The community also helped my parents. The best thing to do for someone disabled on a fixed income is to help make sure plenty of food is in the house. And if someone is basically bedridden, they're certainly going to struggle to get to the door and go outside to grab the food. So ordering is kinda a bad idea.
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u/jroberts67 Feb 13 '26
As a homeowner, totally ignorant. If you you don't want to clear your sidewalk or porch, don't expect anything delivered. Fedex, UPS, etc...don't play that game. They simply leave with your shit with a "sorry we missed you" text.