Next time you get too lazy to dress up before stepping out of the house, remember this.
Earlier today, Facebook user Neil Jed Castro posted screenshots of a Twitter thread by John Sitchon (@theonlyjohntan) that narrates how the latter was mistaken for a homeless person for wearing pajamas in a McDonald’s in Cebu.
Yeah, seriously.
Sitchon’s tweets were from last week and have gotten more than 1,000 likes on the social media platform but it’s the republished screencaps on Facebook that have truly gone viral, now with over 17,000 likes and almost 20,000 shares.
“Peopl[e] thought I was poor this morning,” Sitchon started his thread, tagging the Twitter account of McDonald’s Philippines.
https://twitter.com/theonlyjohntan/status/1017963798949289984
He proceeded to tell the story through a twitter thread, saying that he went to McDonald’s at 10am to buy some pancakes for breakfast.
“I drove to McDo in my pajamas and I looked rugged af (as f*ck),” he wrote. “Ya boi looked like a hobo.”
https://twitter.com/theonlyjohntan/status/1017963817572028416
After getting his order, he noticed a group of “rich kids” walking towards the counter near where he was. He said they had iPhones and even wore Rolex watches.
https://twitter.com/theonlyjohntan/status/1017963826346684416
What happened next was right off a sitcom.
“Mcdo crew walks up to me with another serving of pancakes,” Sitchon wrote. “I was like ‘what’s this for?'”
https://twitter.com/theonlyjohntan/status/1017963839726313474
The crew member then told him that the free pancakes came from the group of “rich kids” that walked in.
Sitchon asked the staff member if the group said anything else about the free meal, to which the crew member replied: ‘They said [to] give it to the homeless kid over there. NO NEED TO SAY IT WAS FROM US.’
He cracked up in his tweet: “I CHOKED ON THE HOT CHOCO BRO HAHAHAHAHA”
Although he was shocked, Sitchon said in a message to Coconuts Manila that he didn’t mind being thought of as homeless. “I wasn’t offended [by the gesture], it was as most people would say ‘funny’,” he said.
https://twitter.com/theonlyjohntan/status/1017963855920619521
Instead of revealing his “true identity,” Sitchon took the pancakes and asked the crew member to thank his benefactors for him.
https://twitter.com/theonlyjohntan/status/1017963865840087040
https://twitter.com/theonlyjohntan/status/1017963874807508992
Sitchon didn’t tell the group directly that he wasn’t actually a homeless person, saying that it would ruin the moment for them.
“I guess I didn’t want to ruin it for them because I knew that the moment I tell them they’d feel betrayed and embarrassed of what they thought,” he told Coconuts Manila.
But they did get the surprise of their lives when Sitchon left the McDonald’s outlet and got in his car.
“They was (sic) shookt when I whipped out my car keys and drove through the entrance,” he said. “I could see [their] stuck faces in awe.”
https://twitter.com/theonlyjohntan/status/1017963879148576768
“All they could see was a face of a champ,” he added.
https://twitter.com/theonlyjohntan/status/1017963886580912128
Netizens were amused by the story, as seen in 2,400 comments on the Facebook post with screencaps of the Twitter thread.
Edgard Jaurigue said: “Still, thanks to the dudes over there.”
Olga Mallari tagged a friend and asked in a mix of English and Filipino: “Do you want free pancakes?”
April Magpantay shared the same sentiments: “FREE FOOD HAHAHAHAHAHA”
“At least those rich kids are so mabait (kind),” Kim Torriña wrote with three laughing emojis.
Tiffany Devilleres tagged her partner and teased him about trying it: “Babyyy! Try this, wear your torn out sando (tank top). Wahahahahaha”
What a way to start the day.
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