Touching picture of elderly couple helping young stranger to tie a tie goes viral

A man at a train station in Atlanta (US) photographed an adorable elderly couple teaching a young boy to tie a tie.

The couple were waiting for a train when they spotted the boy struggling with his neckwear, the Huffington Post reported.

When the woman approached the boy to ask if he knew how to do it, he said he did not.

She immidiately instructed her husband to show him the ropes. The man have the boy a step-by-step lesson and asked the youn make to repeat what he learned.

The photo was taken by Redd Desmond Thomas and uploaded on Facebook which has gained over 900, 000 likes.

"I was some distance away (but close enough to hear the exchange), and got even closer to snap this candid photo of the tutorial in progress before hopping on the train, " Thomas said in a Facebook post.

"Happy to see there are still people with hearts, " one person commented about the photo.