When a pizza delivery driver walked away from the door of an affluent house with nothing but a $2 tip, he didn’t realize it would change his life.
$2 dollars doesn’t sound like much, but it earned the attention of a local police officer, who, astounded and distraught with the lack of generosity shown to the driver, set up a GoFundMe to try and help him out.
A blizzard was belting Brownsburg, Indiana, and out in the middle of it was Conner Stephanoff, trying to keep the mail-like delivery standard of local pie-maker Rock Star Pizza.
In nothing but some sweats and a pair of Nikes, Stephanoff walked half a mile when the road to the address was closed. He got the $40 order to its buyer, and got $2.15 as a reward.
Nearby was police officer Richard Craig who was stopped by a crash. Seeing Stephanoff walking through the drifty sidewalk, Craig whipped out his phone and started recording an impromptu interview for his popular TikTok account.
After hearing how far he had walked, and the extent of the tip, Craig lost it.
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“Look at this man. This man walked through hell and high water to deliver a pizza!” Officer Richard Craig said.
Shortly after that, Officer Craig posted another video of himself in the snow explaining how he ran back to his car to give Stephanoff all the cash he had in his wallet.
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“Look at these homes, they absolutely had the means to tip this young man. Absolutely insane. Do better folks!” he said, announcing in the video description that he had set up a GoFundMe to try and get Stephanoff a $500 reward.
An anonymous donor dished out $1,500, while almost 2,000 people raised $39,000 at the time of publishing: all to show a delivery driver they appreciated him.
“I still don’t believe it’s real but it is,” Stephanoff told WRTV Indianapolis. The owner of Rock Star Pizza, Ron Mathews, says Stephanoff is well deserving of the attention.
“He wasn’t here in the restaurant; he had no idea people were watching him. But he got out, walked it to the house, and came back without any expectations,” Mathews said.
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