The life of a pizza delivery driver can be full of surprises. But what happens when the surprise isn’t a big tip or a wrong address, but the unsettling realization that your last customer didn’t live long enough to enjoy their pizza? One Kentucky driver faced this exact situation—and the night ended up being impossible to forget.

A Redditor asked delivery drivers for their weirdest stories and a pizza delivery driver based in Lexington, Kentucky weighed in with a tale no one expected. It was a regular Wednesday and the order was familiar—a pepperoni pizza for one of his regulars.

The regular was an elderly woman who called without fail, every week. The pizza shop knew her order so well that it was ready in under ten minutes. The driver headed out for the short trip without a second thought.

But as he pulled up to the house, he found an ambulance parked outside. Maybe he assumed his customer had fallen or had some other minor emergency. With the pizza in hand, he approached the door and rang the bell, anticipating his usual friendly exchange.

Instead, a younger woman opened the door. The customer’s daughter? His suspicions were confirmed when she introduced herself and explained the situation: the elderly woman had passed away just moments before his arrival. In a twist that seemed too bizarre to process, the delivery driver had been the last person she spoke to—while placing her usual pizza order.

The young woman was somehow collected enough to not only pay for the pizza, but to insist on tipping. The driver, though caught in a surreal moment, completed the transaction and left, carrying one less pizza bud burdened by the weight of the encounter. For the driver, it was a delivery that didn’t go as planned—yet, in some strange way, it did. He had fulfilled the woman’s last request. When he recited the wild story on Reddit he had one word to describe the powerful experience: “Epic.”