Being pregnant is hard. You can barely touch your toes, your ankles are swollen, and you basically have a bowling ball pressing against your bladder. And although getting around is a wee bit harder for expecting mamas, most of the time other people can see that you're walking around with a tiny human inside your belly and are willing to give you a hand with the everyday tasks that pregnancy makes especially difficult. Though not everyone feels the need to be so generous.
One mom from the UK is now putting one seriously unhelpful delivery man on blast after he refused to help the pregnant mama bring more than $260 of groceries up the stairs. In her Facebook post, which has since gone viral, Amy Botten argued that a delivery man refused to be "a decent person" and instead made her make the trek alone. But not everyone is on the mom's side, some feel like it wasn't his job to lend her a hand. Now the Internet is torn over who's right and who's wrong.
The drama started when mom Amy Botten ordered a huge load of groceries, which were meant to be delivered straight to her front door.
The mom had a crying son inside her apartment and, according to The Daily Mail, is about 4 months pregnant. That means getting around is not the easiest task.
But instead of taking the groceries to Amy's apartment, the delivery man left all of her packages on her first-floor landing.
He also left many of her purchases on the ground, unbagged, which would make the journey up the stairs even harder.
When Amy confronted the man, she asked him if he would help her bring some of the packages upstairs as she was "heavily pregnant."
In the video Amy posted online, you can see the mom huff and puff up and down the stairs to get all of her groceries.
At one point she confronts the delivery man and asks him if he could help her bring the food upstairs because "my little boy is up there crying his eyes out."
But the delivery man refuses.
"You'd rather not?" Amy asked. "But this is your job."
The man eventually left Amy alone to finish the trek, but his diss was enough to get the mom seriously steaming.
In a post Amy wrote on Facebook, the mom shared that she "just had to carry £200 monthly shop up two flights of stairs alone, pregnant with pelvic problems," and added that she had "no choice but to leave my son on his own crying."
Her post seems to have struck a chord. More than 12,000 people have shared the post and it has been liked more than 5,000 times. But not everyone agrees that Amy was in the right.
Some people online are calling Amy out for overreacting. They argue that it wasn't the delivery man's job to carry the groceries to her door.
And another person argued that the man simply may not have had the time to go up the stairs with the mom because he had other trips to make.
"Does she want him to lick her feet as well?" another person asked.
In a screenshot on ASDA's website, Amy does point out that door-to-door delivery is sort of in the job description.
Since posting her story online, Amy wrote that the Feltham ASDA "gave me a bottle of champagne and some flowers and couldn’t apologize enough for the driver not doing his job." She will be meeting with execs from the grocery chain to "talk about what ASDA will be doing to ensure that their customers always get the service they deserve"
A spokesperson for ASDA gave a statement to The Daily Mail, saying, "We always try to offer our customers great service but clearly we got it wrong on this occasion and we are truly sorry.
'We have offered our full apologies to Ms. Botten and are in contact with her to try and make amends."
But for now, the angry mama is speaking out so that othe's won't have to go through the same experience that she did. "This shouldn’t be happening to anyone, bad health, lonely and elderly, disabled, pregnant!!" the mom addd. "It should NOT BE HAPPENING. It’s called HOME delivery."
