Oh, Thanksgiving. It’s the one holiday of the year that doesn’t require gifts, tests your patience with your least favorite family members, and involves stuffing your face before slipping into a slight coma to rest up before the craziness of the Christmas season.
In making preparations for the feasting frenzy back in 2016, one grandma’s text message to the wrong teenager took the internet by storm.
Jamal Hinton was a 17-year-old Phoenix resident who, on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving, received a detailed text message that outlined his family’s Turkey Day celebrations. The plans included family members “Amanda” and “Justin.”
The only trouble was that it wasn’t his family!
Confused about how he got roped into the plans, Jamal asked who these people were. The sender then identified herself as “your grandma,” and the texts that followed are PURE entertainment!
At first, Jamal thought it might be his grandma. Still confused, he asked her to send a picture to make sure.
Well, that’s awkward…
Jamal laughed and responded with his own selfie to assure “Your Grandma” (also known as Wanda Dench) that she’d reached out to the wrong grandson. But not before requesting a seat at the table with Justin and Amanda!
Dench’s response was that of an experienced grandmother:
“Of course you can,” Dench replied. “That’s what grandmas do…feed everyone.”
And so two strangers shared a meal that changed the trajectory of their Thanksgiving plans for every year to come.
