- Amelia Goldsmith was in tears after her efforts to pay for a stranger's groceries didn't pan out.
- The TikToker said she'd wanted to pay for someone's shopping to cheer them up.
A TikToker ended up in tears when her plan to pay for a stranger's groceries did not go as expected.
Amelia Goldsmith, who lives in London, went to a nearby Sainsbury's store with the intention of buying someone's shopping, saying she'd wanted to "cheer someone up."
"I'm nervous," she said in the video, which was viewed nearly 700,000 times. "I just hope they don't look at me thinking I'm some weirdo."
But after several failed attempts, Goldsmith hadn't found anyone who accepted her offer and ended up saying she felt sad and overwhelmed.
"That was really stressful," she told the camera. "I was expecting the first person to be like, overjoyed and grateful and happy for me to pay for their shopping, but obviously that didn't go down well."
@millyg_fit in hindsight i can see why people can react differently to this, but my intentions were purely to brighten up someones day i’m still super happy with what I ended up doing and i’ll do more of it for sure #storytime #vlog #makesomeonesday #foodshop ♬ Dandelions Ruth B - CIMON PAWRET
Goldsmith first went up to a man in the store who was checking out his groceries. She told him she wanted to pay for his items, which he immediately refused.
"There's really no need," he said, with Goldsmith adding in the caption of the video that he looked "angry."
Goldsmith tried asking another person, who also said no. Goldsmith said at this point she was feeling "embarrassed and judged."
"There's a lot more deserving people in the world," the next woman to refuse Goldsmith's offer said. "But thank you."
Afterward, Goldsmith said the people she asked were quite taken aback by her offer. One of them looked at her as if she were an "absolute idiot," she said. She started to cry while saying the experience had given her an "overwhelming sense of emotion."
Goldsmith said she instead bought pasta and sauces to place in the store's food-bank bin; such bins are meant to collect donations for people who cannot afford food.
"Weird turnout, but I'm still really happy that the food can go to those who really need it," she said. "I'm just really overwhelmed right now, I don't know what's going on."
In the comments, some people noted the area of London that Goldsmith was shopping in, Balham, is a wealthy area. One person said this was probably why her offer was refused. "People in my area would be extremely grateful for this," the person said.
Others commented that being filmed might have made people feel awkward.
"Lovely gesture, but remember you don't need to film a good deed to be valid," one person said.
Goldsmith ended the video by saying that going up to people like that was a big challenge for her because she sometimes found social situations hard to deal with so she was proud of herself.
"Just a lot of emotion," she said, wiping away a tear.
Goldsmith didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.