A hungry pensioner left diners open mouthed when he joined the queue of a drive-thru KFC restaurant on his mobility scooter.

The plucky pensioner steered his 8-mph vehicle into the line of traffic at the diner in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, and was later seen cruising down the road to tuck into his lunch.

Shocked motorist @outbrum found the scene so funny that he posted a photo on Twitter and it has since been shared hundreds of times on other social media sites.

Meals on wheels: The pensioner, pictured, rolled up to the cashier's window as he paid for his chicken lunch

Along with the caption 'I just had to LOL and take a pic', the grey-haired man can be seen on his red scooter collecting his food from the cashier as a line of cars wait patiently behind him.

Adam Cartwright, who took the picture said: 'I was just going out for lunch when I spotted this man chugging around the drive-thru on his scooter.

'I was sitting in my car not believing what I was seeing.

'The cashier didn't seem to take much notice and he just paid for his food, plonked it in the basket on the front of the mobility scooter and off he went down the street.'

Commenting on the picture Wendy Jones wrote: 'Bless him xx' while another internet user added: 'It doesn't get more lazier than that.'

After paying for his lunch the pensioner was seeing cruising down the road to tuck into his chicken (file photo)

Lou Fallon added: 'I live in a town where people do this' and Bev Jackson said: 'I hope his food was still warm when he got home. Those scooters aren't the fastest.'