- Robert and Amy Wadford took all of their six children to a restaurant for a family dinner together, but their youngest child, two-year-old Brekken, had other plans.
- When Brekken saw a stranger eating alone at the restaurant, the little boy persuaded his mom that he’d join him.
- The man, Ladarius Sandifer, welcomed his unexpected companion and that restaurant dinner is the start of their beautiful friendship!
For some reason, two-year-old Brekken Wadford was drawn to a stranger eating alone.
When Robert and Amy Wadford took their six kids out for a dinner at Fernando’s, a local Mexican restaurant in Magee, Mississippi, they were surprised with the little boy’s gesture — he wanted to join a stranger who was eating alone.
Brekken was tapping his mom’s shoulder, begging to go and sit with the man, Ladarius Sandifer. When Amy told him ‘no,’ the kid started crying. So, Amy planned to bring him to the car to soothe him, but Ladarius, who noticed the fuss, told the family that the little boy could join him.
“He tapped his mom about four times and told his mom, ‘I want to sit with him, Mommy,’ and I told them just to bring him on over here,” Ladarius explained.
Ladarius and Brekken looked like two close friends joyfully catching up over some good food, when all they really talked about were just the cars in the parking lot.
The new pals had enough time to hit it off by the time the Wadford family left the diner. When it was time to bid goodbye, Ladarius and Brekken exchanged contact details, not allowing a friendship’s beginning to just end there.
That simple moment was such a beautiful sight for Amy, who then shared on Facebook a photo of the two eating together.
“Brekken instantly stopped crying and sat and ate chips and salsa and had conversation with him until he was ready to go,” the post read. “Brekken was completely content and told him bye like he had known him his whole life. It’s the small things!”
The post had quickly gone viral, and Amy was very happy with their decision of allowing the little boy sit with Ladarius. Nobody expected that that moment was a beginning of an extraordinary friendship.
And for little Brekken? That “completely made [his] whole day.”
Source: Inspire More