Couple Expecting Their First Baby Asked Neighbors to Do Their Chores and Make Them Free Meals

“One of the things I’m most afraid of is not getting a great deal of sleep and as a result not being in the best frame of mind to offer my wife the support she needs to recover from the child-birthing process,” Burns continued.

Though it’s normal for someone to help out a neighbor in need, the couple is drawing ire for the specificity of their requests. Burns provided recipes for dozens of meals, noted specific dietary restrictions including that the couple “avoid[s] sugar” and asked neighbors to contribute chores like vacuuming or doing the dishes if they were unable to cook.

“Turns out they are … asking total strangers to help them and with the most millennial phrasing I have ever seen in my life,” the Twitter user wrote while sharing screenshots.

The specific recipes that the parents-to-be requested included red lentil, chickpea and coconut soup, banana oat bars and steel-cut oats cooked in milk.

Social media users sounded off on the couple’s post.

“I just keep thinking that in the time it took him to write up that list, he could have made a bunch of meals in advance and froze them,” one personwrote.

Anotherchimed in, “#MealTrains are great! Supporting new parents is great! But, uh, normally it’s the friends of the new parents that support them with a Meal Train. I have never, ever, seen anything as bizarrely entitled as this.”

source: people.com