A
mum who thought she was doing a good deed by buying a homeless man a
meal in McDonald’s was left mortified when it turned out he was a paying
customer.
Claire
Varin had popped into the restaurant in Halifax town centre in West
Yorkshire when she saw an unshaven man with a rucksack sitting at a
table with no food in front of him.
The
man then started eating from the ketchup dispenser and Claire,
believing the man to be homeless and hungry, bought a meal and walked
over to give it to him.
However,
the warm fuzzy feeling in her stomach for her random act of kindness
soon turned to a feeling of total embarrassment when a staff member also
brought over a tray of food - that the man had just paid for.
The
confused customer didn’t say anything after being given an extra meal
for free - and Claire, from Sowerby Bridge, West Yorkshire, didn’t wait
around to find out what he thought.
Not so happy meal: The man got two McDonald’s meals but wasn’t actually homeless (Rex)
She said: “I was mortified. I felt like I was going to die of embarrassment. I wanted a hole to open up underneath me.
"I didn’t stick around to see if he ate the food I bought him too, I just ran out of the shop as quickly as I could.
"God knows what he thought. He probably tells people about the time a crazy woman bought him a breakfast for no reason.”
Claire now plans to give that particular branch of McDonald’s a miss for a while in case she sees the customer again.
She added: "My friends won’t let me live it down and my husband keeps laughing at me.
“He says he’s going to follow me around from now on to make sure I don’t buy strangers food.”
McDonald’s declined to comment on the incident.
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