Viral News Fact | Because its All About News You Should Know that: Millennial couple asks neighbors to provide 'homemade granola' after giving birth. It backfired.

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Welcoming a baby into your family completely upends your daily routine. Tasks you'd otherwise consider essential — cleaning, cooking, bathing, sleeping, playing Fortnite for hours — become practical impossibilities.

You may well find yourself running on four hours of sleep, wearing yesterday's clothes with burp-puke on them, struggling to scrub dishes or prepare a simple meal.

Surviving the earliest days of parenthood requires a support system — indeed, there's a whole field of etiquette surrounding the assistance of new parents. But a pair of millennials in Philadelphia posted a "meal train" request on NextDoor that pushed one man over the edge. Fortunately for the rest of us, he aired his grievance publicly on Twitter — and gave the Internet some mind-blowing #content in the process.

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

If I don't egg their house, I deserve an award
— JJ (@JJFromTheBronx) April 18, 2019

There has only been one response and it's been positive. Now I have 2 houses to egg... pic.twitter.com/ju63XVz7YG
— JJ (@JJFromTheBronx) April 19, 2019

I have so many thoughts. "Teetering on a fence of emotions" is sheer fuckboi poetry, a phrasing that arises from years of pulling out and refusing to pay for half the Plan B.

Re: the food specifications, who's making "lamb meatball stew with orzo" for themselves, let alone two strangers? The list resembles a celebrity nutritionist's approved meals that you'd see in US Weekly but I have a feeling even Jessica Biel would be like, "This is too much. I'll just have a green juice."

The Twitterverse felt similarly.

This person maybe shouldn't be procreating if it's so beyond his ability to steam his own quinoa. 🤷🏻‍♀️
— Janie Haddad Tompkins (@janiehaddad) April 19, 2019

If they spent less time writing up ridiculous requests and arrangements, they could have prepped a weeks worth of dinners themselves.
— lauren lin (@laurenlinmurch) April 18, 2019

They’re having a baby, not both dying of cancer. Reality is hopefully going to slap these two in the face one day.
— Andrea Bachman (@BachmanAndrea) April 18, 2019

These are some white-ass millenials. I can just picture it: he has a beard & wears a knit cap; she has green hair & a nose ring and their parents just don't "get" them
— J C H (@CoastCountryCal) April 19, 2019

Naturally, there were dissenting opinions.

This is just something neighbors used to do for each other. We love to bitch about how social media is destroying the fabric of society, but here is an example of someone using it to build community and then that's wrong, too? Don't take food if you don't want to. Simple.
— Kristy Dallas Alley (@KristyDAlley) April 19, 2019

Totally agree with you. What's the big deal? A neighborhood of folks who know and care about each other is great. I love it.
— Angela Roberts (@AngelaRR56) April 19, 2019

Thank you. Reading these replies is like listening to the worst people in high school make fun of people they don’t even know. Asking for help is a sign of health, we should all do it more. And if you can help someone who needs it, great. If not, walk on by.
— Chris Wells (@ChrisWellsLives) April 19, 2019

But most people agreed the post smacked of entitlement.

Community begins with giving, not demanding/receiving. A “concerned friend” would do this for the couple, rallying their existing friends and neighbors they knew. The “beneficiary” doesn’t send out their Christmas wish list to Santa
— Bo Bromhal (@BoBromhal) April 19, 2019

Godspeed, you crazy kids! I'm rooting for you despite your grave mistake. The NextDoor post wasn't great, either.