Grandma invites wrong teen to Thanksgiving, now every teen wants to come

Usually, a text sent to a wrong number is nothing but a mundane annoyance. But for Jamal Hinton, a 17-year-old from Phoenix, it turned into a new friend and a Thanksgiving dinner invitation.

Hinton had a hilarious and heartwarming encounter with a grandmother who accidentally texted his number about Thanksgiving plans.

He found himself in a group chat with two unknown numbers and an invitation to Thanksgiving dinner. When he asked who it was, she replied, "Your grandma."

"I really thought it was my grandma so I had to ask for a picture to make sure," Hinton wrote to Mashable.

When Jamal's close friend Ronald shared the screenshots to his Twitter account, teens across the world took notice.

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The selfie that appeared was definitely not taken by his grandma.

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So, he sent a selfie back to prove that she had the wrong number.

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He asked if he could still "get a plate" at dinner and she surprisingly said yes.

"Of course you can. That's what grandmas do...feed everyone," she replied.

Naturally, the teens of the internet think the encounter is just the cutest.

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However, the viral attention got back to Grandma in an unideal way. Hinton left her phone number in the screenshots he tweeted, and when we called her hoping for a comment, we received a message saying that her number had been disconnected.

We were apparently not the first to try contacting her.

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Hinton and Grandma continued to chat beyond the screenshots, too.

"Me and her talked. She changed her number people were blowing up her phone with inappropriate things, but I am in contact with her daughter and grandson," he said.

And yes, he absolutely would take her up on the offer.

"I plan on texting her today and asking for the address to Thanksgiving because, hey, another plate on Thanksgiving is always great," Hinton told Mashable. "If I was invited to their Thanksgiving for real, yes I would go."

Here's hoping Grandma's new phone number is a little more private, and that 10,000 teens don't figure out her address and show up at her door next Thursday.

[H/T: BuzzFeed]