Kindness isn’t patronizing. Just offer to help because you care for Stevie and your neighbor. No need to make it a debt (or worse, make her “work it off”), which would redefine your relationship as employer/employee. Just friends doing what friends do.
Most liquors, but gin and tequila in particular.
I remember they were side by side, but I don’t remember which one I gravitated toward first: It was either Pong or Skeet (with the light gun) for me.