Deanna Pilling, mother of McKenna Pilling, flew to surprise her daughter at Utah State University last weekend just in time for Mother’s Day. Part of the surprise was lying down in what she thought was McKenna’s bed, but when Deanna sent her daughter a selfie, she discovered she was in a stranger’s room!
momma pilling at it again. pic.twitter.com/KzPINUYeNR
— McKenna Pilling (@kennapilling) May 6, 2016
McKenna, being the 18-year-old Millennial that she is, naturally tweeted the screenshot of her mother’s texts, and the tweet went viral. It currently stands at 17,000+ retweets and 36,000+ likes, and will surely be memed into oblivion. The two are now so famous that they appeared on Good Morning America, where they got to explain the exact circumstances of the mishap.
McKenna’s mother said that she was in the correct dorm at Utah State, but somehow landed in the wrong room. McKenna added that, in the midst of sharing the hilarious mix-up with fellow college students, a friend of hers recognized the bedspread in the photo and actually discovered it was her room that Deanna had mistakenly wandered into! Thankfully, Deanna was not exposed to the frightening petri dish of germs that flourish in male dorm rooms.
Luckily, McKenna and Deanna were reunited and able to spend Mother’s Day together. McKenna tweeted another photo of the two, saying, “shout out to momma pilling [sic] for being hilarious and going viral on Twitter. Happy Mother’s Day, love you.” We’re glad they found each other, and that they now have what is probably one of the best surprise-gone-wrong tales that exists!