Boy asks mom to buy dinner for homeless man (Video)

A five-year-old boy moved restaurant diners to tears after asking his mother to buy a homeless man dinner before singing to him.

Josiah Duncan and his mom, Ava Faulk, were going for dinner at the Waffle House in Prattville, Alabama, when the boy noticed a man outside the restaurant.

“We saw a man who was dirty holding a bag with his bike outside,” Faulk told WFSA News in Alabama.

Josiah began peppering Faulk with questions: Where is his house? Where is his family? Where does he keep his groceries?

According to Faulk, her son was most troubled by the fact that the man didn’t have anything to eat.

So, he asked his mom if she could buy the man a hamburger.

“[The man] came in and sat down, and nobody really waited on him,” Faulk said. “So Josiah jumped up and asked him if he needed a menu, because you can’t order without one.”

Faulk said her son insisted on saying grace with the man before his meal arrived, as all the other Waffle House patrons became absorbed in the touching exchange between man and boy.

“The man cried. I cried. Everybody cried,” said Faulk.

The man thanked the family profusely for the free meal before going his own way. And Faulk said she’ll forever be touched by her son’s act of generosity.

“Watching my son touch the 11 people in that Waffle House tonight will be forever one of the greatest accomplishments as a parent I’ll ever get to witness,” she said.

Agencies/Canadajournal