The snow may not be melting, but your heart will.
An Arkansas woman embarked on a journey to find, thank and tip a delivery driver who trekked in the snow to drop off her space heaters after he crashed his vehicle into a ditch.
Brooke Kochel, of Springfield, made the purchase from Walmart after her home lost heat — and Eduardo Garcia, a Spark delivery driver, was assigned to the order.
“The app kept saying he was two minutes away, and then 30 minutes later, it said he’s two minutes away. I finally called and I said, ‘Are you lost?’ And he’s like, ‘I’m actually in a ditch. I’m not gonna be able to make it,’” Kochel told THV11.
Kochel explained to Garcia that the space heaters were for her husband, who is undergoing chemotherapy treatment and the delivery driver then insisted on walking the rest of the way.
“I told him, ‘I wouldn’t have asked you to do this,’” Kochel said.
“He said, ‘No, we can do this. Let’s do it. It’ll just be six minutes each. We’ll walk really fast.’”
After the heaters were dropped off, Kochel promised to tip Garcia on the app, but when she looked back on the app, she saw there was no tipping option, according to the report.
Kochel then went on a mission to locate her delivery driver to compensate him for his kind act, posting her plea on Facebook.
After 24 hours, the video garnered thousands of views, and friends of Garcia tagged him enough times that he reached out.
“I got a bunch of friends. They start sending me texts like: ‘They’re looking for you,’” Garcia told THV11.
“This kind of surprised me and it came out of nowhere. I’m not a social media guy. I don’t even know how to take it,” he said.
Though Garcia originally refused to take a tip from Kochel and her husband, he eventually relented — on one condition.
“He said, ‘OK, I will do this, if you promise me, I can meet your husband and our families can meet and that we will stay friends and that we can walk through this journey with you,’” Kochel told THV11.
Walmart released a statement and praised Garcia for his generosity.
“We love hearing stories like this because people are at the heart of the Spark Driver platform,” the company said.
“This is another great example of how drivers like Eduardo are serving their communities with excellence and compassion, and we are grateful for their hard work and dedication to changing lives – one delivery at a time.”
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