Wurst.lu wrote:LUXEMBOURG-VILLE — A man who only moved to the Grand Duchy last month nearly starved to death over the weekend after his pleas for help went ignored.
On Sunday morning, Yusef Kaplan, 28, realized with horror that he had neglected to restock his refrigerator the day before.
“Where I’m from, supermarkets are always open, so I forget that almost everything here is closed on Sundays,” he explained from a hospital bed where he was recovering from third-degree hunger pangs.
“I was totally famished when I woke up, but I literally had nothing to eat in my refrigerator except for some old spinach, a bit of swiss cheese, and a half-empty bottle of cremant,” the compliance officer said. “And some cream, but it was expired. And a bunch of sauces, too, but nothing to put them on.”
That’s when Kaplan recalled a rumor he’d heard — that some supermarkets are indeed open on Sunday mornings. He launched an urgent appeal to fellow members of a popular Luxembourg expats Facebook group. Kaplan and many other recent arrivals rely on the group for survival tips such as how to find a reliable cleaning lady, where to get a cheap haircut in Howald, and which is the best internet provider.
“What shops are open today?” Kaplan posted at 8:49 a.m. By midday, however, when none of the approximately 10,000 members of the group had offered him live-saving information, Kaplan feared he would not survive. “Can anybody help me, please?” he commented that afternoon under his original post. Still, no one responded. “Please. I’m dying. Ughhh,” was his final post at 6:12 p.m.
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Ooh, the hardships of expat life, we all know them, but then for the "snowflake generation", it must be so much harder...
