MCKEES ROCKS, Pa. — A McKees Rocks woman was on a mission to track down her Uber Eats driver and lend a helping hand.
Michelle Hart spoke with the delivery driver for just a couple of minutes, but it was enough to leave an impression. For the last week, she’s been ordering pizzas to try and find him and start a GoFundMe for him.
When that didn’t work, she turned to social media to track him down and late Wednesday night, he found her.
Hart was determined to find the delivery driver. Her Ring doorbell video captured her stunned reaction when he showed up to her front porch on April 28.
“I’m looking in the camera and I see a bicycle pull up with groceries on the handlebars,” Hart said. “I said, ‘No way!’”
Her Uber Eats delivery person doesn’t drive up to her house. Instead, he pedals up on an electric bike with her Giant Eagle grocery store order.
“He comes up on the porch and he hands me my bags,” Hart said. “We go through the bags. Everything’s there, not a broken egg, nothing. He says, ‘I’m just trying to make a couple extra dollars the best way I can.’”
He told her his car broke down.
“I was like, wow,” said Hart. “I said, ‘I just upped your tip.’ Then I thought about it once he left. I said, ‘Nah, I got to do more. There’s something else I can do.”
But all she had was his first name, Eric, and his Uber Eats profile picture.
“I’m getting emotional because I really want to find this kid,” Hart said.
She made a Facebook post to track him down. It went viral in a matter of hours, reaching people from Ireland and South Africa.
“People from all over the world [were] trying to help me find him,” Hart said. “He’s like a mystery. I kept telling my cousin he’s like Scooby-Doo.”
Hart just wants to help out of the goodness of her heart.
“I love people, and if I can help just one person, my day is complete,” she said, wiping tears. “It’s about blessing someone else if you can. We have a lot going on in this world, a lot of hatred. If I can make your day, just one person’s day, this world would be a better place.”
Right before the story aired on 11 at 11, Hart told Channel 11’s Antoinette DelBel, Eric saw the social media post and found her. She’s now planning on setting up the GoFundMe so Eric can fix his car.
Eric, who didn’t want to give his last name, said all the attention has been overwhelming but he’s grateful.
“I was crazy how many likes were on there. It was crazy to me all the comments and stuff,” Eric said. “I’m thankful before anything. You just don’t feel like people would do that for you.”
Eric said he’s been without a car for a year and has been using an E-bike and rental cars to get around.
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