A grandma trying to text her grandson about Thanksgiving led her to invite a teen stranger to dinner after her holiday planning text went to the wrong person.
Jamal Hinton, 17, received a group text on Tuesday from someone’s grandma, inviting him to Thanksgiving dinner Thursday at 3:00 p.m., ABC News reported.
“Let me know if you are coming,” the text read. “Hope to see you all.”
Hinton responded to the message, asking the unnamed individual for a photo to confirm that it was indeed his grandma.
“I was thinking…my grandma got a new number, so why not ask for her picture?” Hinton told ABC affiliate KNXV-TV.
When the woman sent Hinton the picture, he knew immediately that she had the wrong person.
“[You’re] not my grandma,” Jamal replied with a laughing emoji.
The Desert Vista High School senior sent the woman a selfie of him to show her that he wasn’t her grandson.
“I said, ‘Hey, why not ask for a plate since the offer was still there,” he said.
The woman replied, saying “Of course you can. That’s what grandmas do…feed everyone.”
“I thought, ‘Wow, this lady is really nice,’” he told KNXV-TV. “Any other person would probably blow me off, and be like, ‘No, never text my number again,’ but she was actually pretty nice and sweet about it.”
Hinton told The Huffington Post that the grandma's name is Wanda, and she is a Mesa resident.
He went by Wanda’s house on Wednesday to meet her in person.
“She was really nice!” he told The Huffington Post. “A very funny, sweet lady.”
Hinton said he will not only be making his way to Wanda’s home on Thanksgiving, but he will be bringing something with him; maybe a pumpkin pie.
Twitter users were entertained by the unlikely encounter.
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