Grandpa gives toddler $20 for the most touching reason
A woman from Oklahoma in the US has taken to Facebook to share a touching, selfless act of kindness by an elderly man that left her in tears.
Alyssa Hacker was shopping at her local Target store with her young son, Owen, when the toddler picked up three toy dinosaurs off the shelf. “We were trying to pick out which one he wanted when Owen abruptly yelled, “Hi,” at this older man walking past us,” Hacker wrote.
“[The older gentleman] turned around and said, ‘Hey sweet boy,’” the mother recalled. “With this crazy world we live in I was a little hesitant as to how close he was with Owen.”
But then, the man did something completely unexpected. “The man got his wallet out and pulled a $20 [note] out, he put it in Owen’s pocket on his shirt and said ‘I just lost my two-year-old grandson last week. You take this money and buy this boy all three dinosaurs,’ and rubbed Owen's back, wiped his tears and walked off.”
The touching story, shared on the social media site over the weekend, has since accumulated more than 186,000 likes, 15,000 comments and 130,000 shares.
“There is still some good in this world,” Hacker concluded the sweet story.
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