Man gets impatient waiting for GrabFood order, only to be ashamed after seeing deliverer in a wheelchair

Photo: Shahril Jantan / Facebook
Photo: Shahril Jantan / Facebook

Deeply affected by the guilt he felt earlier today, a man took to Facebook to recount his experience and proffer advice to folks not to take things for granted.

Shahril Jantan wrote that he had ordered some bubble tea via GrabFood, and it would have normally taken 20 minutes at most for the order to arrive at his Bedok Reservoir residence. When it took more than half an hour, he started to get a little antsy — more so after he saw on the app that the GrabFood rider had been gone past his carpark.

But that agitation turned into guilt when he looked outside his window and realized that the GrabFood deliverer is a handicapped lady in a motorized wheelchair.

“I went up to her as she reached my lift lobby and my heart really sank,” he Shahril said after realizing that she picked up his order from an I-Tea outlet in Tampines and went all the way to Bedok Reservoir on her wheelchair.

“I was a little shocked, to be honest. I was lost for words,” he added. Having already made the payment through GrabPay, Shahril gave the delivery woman some extra cash as a token of appreciation. He prayed that she would continue being an inspiration to other able-bodied people.

GrabFood deliverers like her have been lauded before on social media, with folks finding it inspiring that people with limited mobility would be willing to find work that involves traveling distances to pick up and distribute food orders.

“GrabFood is proud to be the platform that enables micro-entrepreneurs like our delivery-partners,” said Head of GrabFood Singapore James Ong to Coconuts Singapore about deliverers like the lady in a wheelchair.

“They have the flexibility to plan their working arrangements, from their preferred modes of transport to their working hours,” he explained.



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