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A branch of Pizza My Heart (got to love the pun) in Menlo Park, California took a strange order two days ago.

Menlo Park is an affluent area and the pricey pizza order for a medium Maui Wowie (ham and pineapple) and Figgy Piggy (bacon, black figs, fresh sage & feta) came to $44.50 (roughly £30).

The note, which read "Send us your cutest delivery boy. Tell me I'm pret" had clearly cut out the instruction for using too many characters and the intention was obvious. The delivery boy, posted it on imgur yesterday.

(Image: getty)

He said "I've had orders like this before so I was expecting a group of college girls."

He could be forgiven for thinking he would be approaching some kind of giggling drunken mess of a party.

(Image: coldfan/imgur)

But when he arrived he encountered an absolutely heartbreaking scene. It was a clearly a birthday party, with balloons. "When I arrived there was no group, just one girl," he said. He wished her a happy birthday.

The lone customer explained she had hosted a party for her birthday, but no one had turned up. After a brief conversation on the doorstep she invited him in for cake. Throwing caution to the wind he went in for a slice of cake and they ended up chatting for close to an hour.

"We laughed and talked the whole time, as I was leaving I gave her a hug and told her she was pretty," he said.

On his return he also received a written warning from the restaurant for taken so long to get back from the delivery, but said it was totally worth it. He had cheered someone up on their birthday, and that was far more important.

Quite sweet.

But figs, on a pizza? REALLY?