Touching moment man helps an 83-year-old down a escalator
- Alonzo Johnson, 23, stopped to help an elderly man Massachusetts last week
- He noticed the 83-year-old hesitating to get on an escalator at the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside
- Johnson offered his arm to the man after learning the senior citizen had anxiety
- A woman took a photo of the pair linking arms as they went down the escalator
- It quickly went viral with more than 420,000 likes and 25,000 comments
Alonzo Johnson stopped and decided to help a frightened elderly man down an escalator in a Massachusetts shopping mall last week.
But the 23-year-old had no idea that his simple, random act of kindness would go viral.
Johnson says he didn’t know anyone was watching when he asked the 83-year-old man if he needed help at the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside last Thursday.
Alonzo Johnson, 23, didn’t know anyone was watching when he asked an 83-year-old man if he needed helped going down an escalator at the Holyoke Mall in Massachusetts last week
He had spotted the senior citizen hesitating to step on to the escalator when he offered him his arm.
‘He looked very afraid and I thought maybe I could help,’ Johnson told Mass Live.
Paula Picard and a friend were standing nearby and managed to take a heartwarming photo of the pair linking arms as they went down the escalator.
She posted the photo on Facebook and it quickly went viral with more than 420,000 likes and 25,000 comments.
‘The older man was paused at the top of an escalator and a few people started gathering waiting to get on,’ the Facebook post read.
Alonzo Johnson said he had no idea his random act of kindness in offering to help the elderly man would go viral
A woman managed to take a photo of the pair linking arms on the escalator. She shared the image on Facebook and it has since attracted more than 420,000 likes and 25,000 comments
It was clear he was feeling unsure and this young man offered the simplest kindness: an out-reached arm and a “can I help you on, sir?”.
‘He quietly started to explain to the young man that he had gotten stuck on an escalator once and was a little scared. The young man gently offered an assurance, they looked at each other eye to eye for just a moment and the older man accepted his arm.’
Johnson said he never expected his actions to reach so many people.
‘My Mom always tells us to be nice and do the right thing, you never know who’s watching. It’s really the way I was brought up and how I was raised,’ he said.
The 23-year-old was shopping at the Holyoke Mall at Ingleside last Thursday with his cousin when he decided to help out the elderly man
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