There's something to be said for leaving things to the imagination. Like those six-word short stories that suggest a greater narrative ("For sale: baby shoes, never worn" being the most famous, even if Hemingway didn't actually write it), you sometimes see an odd little detail — a quick snapshot — that sets your mind racing. You can only speculate as you peer through this small window into a story you'll never truly understand.
And so we arrive at the 10-cent DoorDash order from McDonald's. Compiling some of the most notable trends and curious happenstances of the past year, took note of a peculiar order a customer placed. This person ordered exactly two items from their local McDonald's: a small carton of Creamy Ranch dipping sauce ( ) and a straw.
It cost the customer a mere 10 cents before tax and tip; the toll it's exacted upon our psyches, however, is incalculable. What drives someone to order a single dipping sauce and a straw? Were they items they forgot to add to a previous order? That has to be it — otherwise, we're forced to assume that they were going to drink the sauce through the straw, and down that path lies only madness. How much did this DoorDash order really cost? Of course, anyone who's used a delivery app knows that this wasn't really a 10-cent order.
There are plenty of fees and taxes that DoorDash applies to your order so that getting someone to drive fast food to your house remains a sustainable business model. There's the Service Fee, which DoorD.