Heartwarming picture of elderly man helping stranger knot a tie goes viral
Never underestimate the kindness of strangers
A heartwarming photo of an elderly man teaching a young stranger to knot his tie has gone viral.
Redd Desmond Thomas posted the photo that he took in an Atlanta train station on Facebook along with the story. He wrote of how an elderly woman noticed the young man struggling and asked, 'Do you know how to tie it?'
When he replied, 'No ma'am,' the woman asked the man she was with to help, which he did without hesitation. Not only did the man teach the stranger to tie his tie, he then made him repeat the steps to show that he had mastered the technique.
The photo has been shared over a 190,000 times since it was posted on the 14th November. The full post is below.
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Our hearts are officially warmed!