Sometimes you just have to dance like no one is watching. And for one Minnesota woman, that is exactly what she did on cloudy day. She stepped outside her apartment and in the parking lot and began to shimmy her around the cars, bopping to music in her earbuds. But she wasn’t alone for long – a police officer arrived and headed straight to her.

When 92-year-old Millie Siever saw the officer stop her patrol car, she didn’t stop dancing. To her surprise, Police Sgt. Kim Lenz made her way to Millie, and with the camera in her car filming, Lenz and Millie began dancing. The officer had tuned her cruiser’s radio to the same station Millie was listening to and the pair cut a rug to Brother Osborne’s “Stay a Little Longer”.

Sergeant Lenz and Millie Seiver dance. Photo courtesy of Austin Police Department

“I just cranked it up and started dancing,” the sergeant said. Lenz, a 10-year-veteran of the Austin police department, said she had no idea that such a small moment would suddenly go viral. “It was such a small gesture,” Lenz said. “People do things like this every day.” Often when Millie goes for her walks, if she gets tired she’ll stop for a break, Lenz said. “When she gets tired of walking, she starts dancing.”

But the internet felt the kindness Lenz showed Millie was amazing, causing the video on the Austin police department’s Facebook page to get more than 60,000 views swiftly after it was posted. Lenz said that she was surprised at the video’s popularity. The small moment lasted just a song, and when it was over, Seiver and Lenz hugged and said goodbye. 

Her dancing is nothing new, Millie’s granddaughter Tammie Maus-Sutphen said. She is always dancing. “‘At her 90th birthday party, we were out dancing because I love to dance too,’ Maus-Sutphen said. After Millie’s dance with the sergeant went viral, Lenz made a visit to Millie’s apartment to let her know she was famous now.

‘You brightened my day and now you’re brightening the whole world’s day, one view at a time,'” Lenz told Millie.

Often when Millie goes for her walks, if she gets tired she’ll stop for a break. “When she gets tired of walking, she starts dancing,” Lenz said. It was not the first time, she said, that she had seen Millie cutting a rug on the asphalt, but it was the first time she pulled over to cut in.

Millie Siever

“She brightens my day,” Lenz said. “I’ve seen her a few times, dancing by herself, so this time I just stopped and danced with her.” The pairs’ viral fame was surprising, she said. “It’s definitely overwhelming,” said Lenz, who still thinks it wasn’t a big deal. Kindness should just be something easily given.

For her part, Millie is a bit shocked that her dancing has made the internet So happy. “‘I don’t know, I was just so amazed, I was so shocked, I didn’t think it would go any further than that,'” she said. But like anything these days that puts a smile on peoples faces, the joy the dancing partners shared was just what the internet needed. For a look at this dancing duo, watch below.

Sources: Yahoo News | Daily Mail