Pizza delivery drivers are unsung heroes.
Whether you're hungover or just plain hungry, with nothing more than a phone call and a short wait, they'll be at your door with a piping hot box of deliciousness (tailored to you, of course).
However, life being life, pizza delivery drivers don't always get the credit they deserve, which is why the emotional moment this 89-year-old pizza delivery driver received a $12,000 tip is going viral.
The tip was given to the senior citizen after a TikTok star started a fundraiser in his honor.
Derlin Newey, 89, works 30 hours a week at a Papa John's Pizza in Roy, Utah to get by, and earlier this month, he dropped a pizza off at the home of the TikTok star Carlos Valdez.
Valdez went on to record his family's chats with Newey and posted the footage to TikTok where it went viral.
So much so that Valdez began to repeatedly request the driver, whose kindness touched the hearts of TikTok users around the world.
Watch the emotional moment the 89-year-old receives the huge tip below:However, it wasn't long before people began to question why an 89-year-old was delivering pizzas instead of enjoying his twilight years.
Valdez then got the idea to start a fundraiser for Newey and he was floored by the generosity of his followers, who raised a lifechanging $12,000 for the kind driver.
Hilariously, Newey didn't understand what TikTok was, but he did understand that a lot of people had been kind to him.
"We collectively collected a gift for you, and I'm here to deliver that gift to you on behalf of the TikTok community," Vadez told Newey.
In footage filmed by local news station KSL, Newey bursts into tears when he receives the money and explains that he began working 30 hours a week as a pizza delivery driver because he couldn't afford his bills on social security alone.
"This couldn't have gone any better," Valdez told KSL. "He needed this. I'm just glad we could help him. We just need to treat people with kindness and respect - the way he does. He stole our hearts."
