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Whenever you willingly use a food delivery app like DoorDash, you’re also subjecting yourself to dealing with the inevitable and occasional human error. Some botched attempts at a successful food delivery can end up stinging more than others. You might find yourself on a cold winter’s night waiting hungrily for that fresh pepperoni pizza that you also could’ve walked down the block for, only to find yourself still waiting for that not-fresh-anymore pizza a couple of hours later. Then, a particular devastating plot twist can erupt out of nowhere, and suddenly you’re told that the pizza was “delivered” yet it’s nowhere to be found. Such is life sometimes. 

So, when one particularly irritated DoorDash customer went to order themselves a couple of Subway sandwiches, they were in no reasonable way prepared for what they would end up getting.

@knockbackaria Btw the subway manager asked for the boxes back & doordash rejected the refund request. #doordash #subway #trending #fyp #viral ♬ original sound – knockbackaria

“We ordered two Spicy Italians from Subway and it said order completed and we got this picture on the front door,” TikToker @knockbackaria angrily explained in a viral video last month.

The picture taken was of three flat boxes that were stacked on top of one another, while the order displayed on the phone was clearly sandwiches. As he moves the phone away, you can then see two huge boxes of Subway fliers and posters. 

To make matters more unpleasantly chaotic, DoorDash refused to issue the refund. 

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Matt has spent the last 8 or so odd years as both a writer and editor in Seattle and Brooklyn, where he is now based. He loves escaping the tirelessly fast pace of the “Mad Apple” that is NYC by taking walks and runs through parks where he’s able to catch up on the latest tea about society from the city’s ever chatty, always hungry, occasionally rabid, pigeons. When he’s not taking his urban nature strolls, or dutifully combing the deepest rabbit holes of the internet to find the content that’s worth sinking your mind’s teeth into, he’s likely holed up at a dark-lit dive bar with a book and/or some friends, or just easily he could be on the hunt for the next addition to his steadily growing plant family.