How to Money · Monday, August 10, 2026
Rebecca shared an experience where a gas station attendant from India asked her about investing after seeing her Fidelity Visa card. She explained index funds using Google Translate and exchanged contact information, planning to help him get started with investing, emphasizing that it's never too late to start, even for those over fifty.
“And today he took my card. It's my Fidelity Visa card, it's a credit card and he said this Fidelity. Is it stocks? And I said, yeah, it's kind of stocks, it's investing.”
“And he said I want to invest and I said, okay, sounds great. I can help you. And he said, okay, do I have to go to Fidelity? And I said, yeah, you can start with Fidelity. You do it on a website on a computer, and basically we got started in talking and he said, how do I pick a stock?”
“And I said, well, what you want to do is you really want to pick a group of stocks. It's called a mutual friend. And right away I got on my phone and I put this into the translator app and I translated it into Punjabi for him, and we traded phone numbers. And this is the attendant at my gas station. So I think we're going to be buddies.”