This man did what a son is supposed to do for his old mother but onlookers were not bright enough to keep their judgmental reactions to themselves…until this old man told him this.
A son took his old mother to a restaurant for an evening dinner. Mother being very old and weak, while eating, dropped food on her clothes. Other diners watched her in disgust while her son was calm.
After she finished eating, her son who was not at all embarrassed, quietly took her to the wash room, wiped the food particles, removed the stains, combed her hair and fitted her spectacles firmly. When they came out, the entire restaurant was watching them in dead silence, not able to grasp how someone could embarrass themselves publicly like that.
The son settled the bill and started walking out with his mother.
At that time, an old man amongst the diners called out to the son and asked him, “Don’t you think you have left something behind?”.
The son replied, “No sir, I haven’t”.
The old man retorted, “Yes, you have! You left a lesson for every son and hope for every mother”.
The restaurant went silent.