North America's oldest retail worker celebrates big birthday at Home Depot

Video footage has captured the heartwarming infinitesimal a TikToker amazed America's oldest worker with $1,000 - arsenic helium revealed the cardinal to a meaningful life.

Popular TikToker Zachery Dereniowski, known for his viral videos of helping those successful need, approached David Frank, a 100-year-old Home Depot employee, by accidental pretending to request assistance purchasing materials - having seemingly nary thought astir his unthinkable backstory. 

The centenarian idiosyncratic didn't hesitate to connection support. 

Touched by Frank's willingness to help, the TikToker revealed his existent volition and awarded Frank $1,000 for his unthinkable selfless enactment of kindness.

He soon learned helium was speaking to America's oldest employee, David Frank, who precocious celebrated his 100th birthday.

When asked astir his concealed to a agelong and meaningful life, Frank replied with conscionable six almighty words: 'Treat the satellite similar your family,' helium said. 

Frank's continued with his elemental yet inspiring message, adding: 'Be bully to them, beryllium sensible - that's all.'

Frank was calved successful Montreal successful 1924 - and has lived done a period of change, moving successful manufacturing during World War II and owning aggregate businesses earlier uncovering his calling astatine Home Depot 23 years ago, arsenic reported successful a section quality diagnostic successful Windsor Star.

Frank told the outlet helium loves moving successful retail arsenic helium gets to link with radical and assistance lick their problems - which helium demonstrated successful the video. 

'You get to conscionable the customers themselves,' Frank told the Star. 'You perceive their problems and you get to assistance lick them.' 

He said not lone is helium capable to enactment - helium takes pleasance successful it.  

'It keeps maine engaged and successful the loop,' Frank said. 'The hours are good, the radical are good, and the checks don't bounce.' 

Store manager Gloria Mattia describes Frank - affectionately known arsenic 'Davie' - arsenic an 'amazing person' who genuinely loves people.

'He is an astonishing person,' Mattia told the Star. 'He genuinely loves radical and I deliberation that is what has kept him present for truthful long. He loves what helium does and helium does it due to the fact that helium loves it. 

'Not everybody turns 100 ... it's a immense milestone.' 

The store has adjacent dedicated an full aisle successful his honor, dubbed the 'David Frank Aisle' oregon 'Davie Frank Lane.'

Earlier this month, they celebrated his 100th birthday. Frank was surrounded by friends, family, coworkers and adjacent peculiar guests like Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens. 

'It was bully to spot a bully happening happen,' Frank said. 'I don't privation the attention, but if it's a bully happening and radical consciousness bully with it, that's the mode thing should happen.'

Mayor Dilkens called it an 'honor' to observe Frank's milestone 100th birthday. 

Frank attributes his longevity to bully genes. He said that astir of his household members person lived past 100.

'It's thing special, it's conscionable genes,' Frank said. 'We don't enactment our lives successful information successful anyway, you know? We don't tempt the end. And that's it.'

Despite being 100 years old, Frank shows nary signs of slowing down.

'What would I do? Sit astatine location and extremity up getting blisters connected my rear end?' helium told the outlet. 'No way. I would ne'er privation to (spend) it that way.

'I tin determination astir precise good and tin bash a batch of enactment that a batch radical of this property would not. I privation to enactment active.'

The heartwarming TikTok video has since gone viral, with astir 2million views and thousands of comments by users who are successful awe of Frank's unthinkable tone and liveliness.

'Dudes 100 and inactive working?! God bless him,' 1 idiosyncratic wrote.

'He’s 100??? He’s much alert and spunky than I am!' different added. 'He looks astonishing for 100!' 

'I enactment astatine the aforesaid Home Depot arsenic Davie. He’s a large man. Important to enactment that helium doesn’t enactment due to the fact that helium has to, helium does it due to the fact that helium genuinely enjoys helping people,' a 3rd idiosyncratic chimed in.