They call me MISTER Krebbs.
Sorry, you were being a jerk.
Not even in a Gas station?
A couple of other points,how many cars go through the DT per shift?
Even taking the optimistic five seconds of smoke rule multiply that by the number of cars and its going to be a lot more.
As its illegal in W.state to smoke in those circumstances the OP has no right whatsoever to whine about the cashiers request.
But I was only a few beers over the limit…
The speed limit there is stupid,nobody obeys it…
My bullets went nowhere near anyone,whats everyone getting all upset about…
You dont pick and choose which laws you obey.
So live with it.
I don’t go through drive-throughs because I don’t eat fast food, but I’ll put myself in your shoes for a moment. I have one of those ash cans in my car to hold my cigarette when I can’t smoke it.
I probably would have put it there until the transaction was complete, though, at the bank drive-through, I usually make it a rule to keep the cigarette in my other hand and not take puffs until I’m on my way again. And that’s mostly because I don’t want to set my money on fire when I reach for it.
I’m a considerate smoker. I have always known people don’t like it, and I’d like to stop doing it someday, but it’s hard to be considerate when people don’t even ask nicely. People tend to treat me as though I’m wiping my ass in front of them or choking small children. I don’t get up every day and tent my fingers and draw on my big angry eyebrows and look for ways to offend people.
I always believed that smokers’ line about how if you’re bothered by their cigarettes and politely ask that they not smoke, they’ll gladly comply, no rules or regulations needed.
I am just, like, horribly disillusioned. 
Nobody should use drive in windows. Get out of the car and go inside. Save gas and pollution and relieve this problem.
I drive a Prius which automatically shuts off the gas engine when it’s stopped.
You need to read the book “Bellwether” by Connie Willis. She talks about this.
Me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me me.
Yes, you’re a self absorbed jerk.
Maybe she was just concerned about your health.
She didn’t want you to get lung cancer before you injected your arteries with 3000 milligrams worth of chalupa.
I worked in the McDonald’s drive-through for a couple of summers in high school. I also really don’t care for the smell of cigarette smoke. But not only would I never even dream of telling someone they couldn’t smoke in their own car, I can’t even ever remember being bothered by someone’s cigarette smoke in the drive-through. And we did have plenty of smokers come through. It’s not like they were blowing smoke directly into my face as I was taking their cash.
I’m with the OP (Mr. Krebbs if you’re nasty) on this one.
Somehow I doubt that smoking a cigarette in one’s car at the pump could pose a problem; it’s the whole exiting the car and being near a gas tank exuding fumes that causes problems. What do you think if an employee tells you to get off your cell phone at the gas pump?
Plenty of cars go through a fast food drive through during an 8 hour shift. However, considering something like 21% of Americans smoke, only one of five customers would be a smoker. Guess how much less likely it would be that every smoker encountered would actually be smoking?
So I don’t think smokers in the drive through pose any significant risk or inconvenience. At least not so much of an inconvenience that an employee should bother me about it.
Um, yes, I do. The Washington state smoking laws, for instance, are laughable. I’m probably within 25 of a door or window every time I smoke on campus and I pass doors and windows plenty often when I’m walking down the street.
Just for the record, if by some bizarre circumstance I ended up taxiing that cashier around, I would be perfectly willing to hold off on smoking in the car for the duration I had her as a passenger. When I simply have an open window next to her window for an enounter that took 5-10 seconds of her needing her window open in toto, I think it is much different.
The cashier just wasn’t forced to spend enough time with me for me to take her concern seriously.
Well I must say as a person that gets a terrible headache and vomits from just a little bit of exhaust and yet the smell of smoke doesn’t bother me at all, you’re just giving an opinion. I would be interested to know which is more damaging over the course of a fast food workers course of employment.
I’m no fan of cigarette smoke, but “don’t smoke in your own car next time” should be, like “how’s about you don’t bathe in cologne next time” or “leave your screaming brats at home next time, why dontcha?” one of those things you really wish you could say to a customer, but don’t. As a drive-through attendant, she’s probably afforded few opportunities for petty tyranny. Sounds like she was flexing her muscles (no doubt severely atrophied and concealed beneath shambling layers of gluteal fat).
Having come dangerously close to agreeing with Carol Stream on something, I now need to go seriously rethink my life.
Former smoker and former drive thru worker as well here, strongly on the side of the OP. Waiting in a drive thru line is prime smoking time. As long as you’re not blowing a big stream of smoke in her face or flicking your butts at her, it’s none of her business if you’re smoking in your car. It’s not a legitimate complaint on her part, just an attitude problem. If smoking on their property is an issue I bet there are 3 more of their exact same restaurant within easy driving distance.
I vote jerk.
I don’t see a reason not to wait til after you pick up your food to light up.
I agree–maybe you’d prefer that the customer doesn’t smoke, but if you live in an area where it’s perfectly legal to do so at the drive thru window, you (cashier) should STFU. Some people are harping on the fact that it’s their property and they can choose what policies to enforce and whether to ask you to leave. They sure can. They being the owners.
The drive thru employee who tells you that you should put your cigarette out isn’t making up and enforcing drive thru policy. More likely, if you brought it up with her manager, they’d likely apologize and agree that there’s no policy against smoking in the drive thru. At least, that’s what my experience with corporate complaint letters suggests.
The OP spent approximately 15-20 seconds face to face (a few feet away) from the cashier. During this time, the cigarette was held in his other hand, and he didn’t exhale in her face. Claiming that his smoking somehow inconvenienced her or threatened her health in this situation is, at best, absurd.
And Mr. Krebbs does not, so I’m not sure what your point is.
I love how all the anti-smokers in this thread feel the need to interject their own personal priorities on someone else’s life.
“I don’t see why you couldn’t have waited!” “It’s about courtesy!” What about the courtesy towards someone who’s minding their own business and doing their best not to have their habit interfere with anyone else? Some in this thread keep imagining a lit cigarette and someone blowing smoke on into the restaurant where it can possibly be whiffed by dozens of patrons and contaminate the food and and and…
I don’t currently and have never smoked - I just have enough sense to know when people are being treated like shit by self-righteous masses, demonized in commercials, and targeted by impossible-to-follow laws.
Mr. Krebbs asked if he was a big fat jerk, not if he was a big fat lawbreaker. Would you change your tune and feel that he wasn’t being a jerk if he lived elsewhere?