A grandfather whose grandkids affectionately call “Papaw” invited his 6 grandkids to dinner and made 12 burgers but when only one of them showed up, he felt sad. In fact, he was so sad that the only grandkid who accepted the dinner invitation took pity on him; thus, she took a snapshot of her sad Papaw and shared it on social media.
In her post on twitter, Kelsey Harmon (@kelssseyharmon) posted a photo of her Papaw, shouting out to the whole world that she loves him.
…and in true social media fashion, Papaw’s sad photo quickly became viral!
dinner with papaw tonight…❤️ he made 12 burgers for all 6 grandkids and I’m the only one who showed. ? love him pic.twitter.com/0z0DkPtUiR
— kelsey (@kelssseyharmon) March 17, 2016
Many praised Kelsey for taking the time to have dinner with her grandfather, with many netizens even commenting that they wish they also had a chance to have dinner with their own grandparents before they had passed away.
But while Kelsey got the praise for showing up at Papaw’s dinner party, the rest of his grandkids earned the netizens’ ire. In fact, aside from netizens hunting these cousins down to message them about treating their grandfather better, there were also those who actually dealt death threats and hate messages to Kelsey’s cousins!
The matter escalated to dangerous levels that Kelsey had to make another post, this time to ask netizens to stop harassing her cousins because their Papaw does not really play favorites and that he treats all his grandkids equally even if they were not able to attend the dinner party he himself prepared.
papaw is ok guys I promise & he loves all grandkids equally, plz stop sending my cousins death threats everything is ok !!!!
— kelsey (@kelssseyharmon) March 17, 2016
One of the other grandkids, Brock Harmon (@BHarmon_10) would later post on Twitter that he made it up to Papaw by visiting the old man for dinner and, yes, eating his now famous burgers. He also revealed that the old man is amused about being viral and that Papaw thanks netizens for making him famous.
GUYS DON’T WORRY!!!! I CAME TO PAPAWS HOUSE AND AM HAVING A BURGER!!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/2EHVllGG2U
— Brock Harmon (@BHarmon_10) March 17, 2016
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