Sad papaw has more #friends than ever after pic goes viral
The only grandchild to show up for a burger dinner made by her grandfather -- or as the world now knows, her "Papaw" -- Tweeted a picture of him getting stood up that has gone viral.
The Tweet Kelsey Harmon sent out to shame her cousins ended up garnering her grandpa more sympathetic #friends than he ever could have imagined.
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
The first person to Tweet back at her, wrote: "Kelsey seriously why would you even tweet that bc now I'm sad."
Her answer? "bc people need to appreciate their family ok I was so sad."
"I know next time I'll come eat burgers with him, @MadiPaigeG23 replied.
Why couldn't they just show up to pawpaw's dinner pic.twitter.com/T2xZ7IqNaD
— Brandon williams (@hawaiinshirts) March 17, 2016
It was too much for even some hardened souls to look at. Her public shaming of Papaw was re-Tweeted more than 136,000 times, eliciting guilty responses from the other grandchildren who allegedly failed to show up for dinner, as well as many offers to come eat them with him in their stead. It even became meme fodder.
— Deeyung (@deeyung) March 18, 2016
And it made Papaw lots of new Internet friends.
Papaw dont be sad, i'll have all 12 burgers okay?
— archi got me like (@dahsyii) March 18, 2016
Harmon's last Tweet indicated she'd even gotten a bit more than she bargained for.
really sorry to bring this up again, but replying to everyone is impossible. just want to leave it at this.. thx😊❤️ pic.twitter.com/kr8LoJC5bH
— kelsey (@kelssseyharmon) March 18, 2016
But in the future, her cousins will likely to think twice about standing up their grandfather.