I’m sure people find the drive-through parking sign funny int he same way that people seem to find braille on drive-through ATMs funny.
Both have perfectly logical explanations, but both seem to amuse people.
When the restaurant (if you want to call it that) is busy, or has to do something out of the ordinary for your order, you will sometimes be asked to move to the parking spot while they complete your order and serve the cusomers in the drive through behind you.
Unless you haven’t gone to a drive through in 20 years you would be familiar with the process. I have kids. I am familiar with the process.
They were probably drunk. They spend an inordinate amount of time drinking wine on their show. Also, Hoda looks like she could be Kathie Lee’s mother even though Kathie Lee is about 20 years older.
And we drive on parkways and park on driveways. Maybe they were just making a stale joke.
I never heard of Hoda before, but I remember when Kathy Lee was voted the most repulsive person on TV.
That’s not really a “misspelling” though. Not one that Americans should get all giggly over.
I think the sign was from a hospital in Virginia. It is an uncommon spelling in the US, but certainly not unknown.
She has not improved. She is now that older friend of your mother who wears too much makeup, always speaks 2 volume settings too loud, and thinks it’s cute to make crude remarks about the pizza delivery kid’s package.
And yet is filled with self-righteousness. I don’t know how it is possible to reconcile being a prude who disdains popular culture as crude and yet is bestest friends IRL with Kris “Kardasian” Jenner.
One of the funniest moments was when Hoda was gone and Kathie Lee’s mother took her spot.
Kathie decided to have a game between Regis and her mother about who knows her best. Regis went along for the most part, but a couple of times he said what all the viewers were thinking.
After trying to guess what her drink of choice is he asked, quite sincerely, “Does anybody really care?” And then later she played a clip of her song “Everyone has a story” she asked for the next line and Regis replied, “Everyone doesn’t care. Come on, what is it?!”
She’s not quite as prudish as she use to be though.
Frankly, I see her as a bitter drunk. She’s failed at having a music career; After leaving Regis it took her a long time to get another gig on TV; And I remember in the late 90’s she was going on about what a wonderful marriage she had and how people should try to be like her and Frank, and then oops, he was cheating on her.
Only if you regularly attend fast food joints in a city that doesn’t have enough of them. I’ve never in my life seen parking reserved for a drive through, although I have had to pull forward for a bit to wait on something. The idea that there are places that have this problem so often that they need to set aside parking for it? As far as I’m concerned, it negates the concept of fast food if I regularly have to park and wait on the food–the delay should be short enough that I don’t have to actually park.
I live in a small college town that has nothing but fast food restaurants, and we have a parking space for drive-through customers, and yes, it is a pain.
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, before the Cafe Society Forum was a gleam in TubaDiva’s eye, there was a truly fast food joint. It served hamburgers, cheeseburgers, fries, shakes and sodas. Only. It served so few menu items but had such a large demand that it pre-cooked everything and customers didn’t have to wait. It served so many shakes at once that it ordered some very large shake-makers and the shake-maker distributor said, “WTF? Now that’s a restaurant, and I want a piece of that!”
That time is long gone. Now McDonalds has a menu of fifty-eleven kinds of sandwiches, forty-eleven desserts, and thiry-eleven kinds of coffee, most of which cannot be made in advance because they sell very little of any one item and customers want them fresh. They have therefore redefined the term “fast food” as “PDQ food, if you don’t mind a little wait.”
Fast food places here have them. When they don’t, they have you pull up so you aren’t blocking the window while you wait.
I hung around the New Orleans news anchor people in college in the 90’s and Hoda was one of them. I didn’t know her very well but she went out with us a couple of times with her then boyfriend and we had some fun late nights. She was a really successful/party girl back then and never struck me as dumb at all. I don’t know what she is like now but I think the networks encourage the dumb persona on purpose. It is mainly middle-American housewives that sit at home during the day and watch that crap so they can’t make them feel too stupid. She is one of a long string of those types of characters now. Now you want to talk truly stupid, see Katie Couric.
Hoda is the smarter of the two but once they get into their cups, all bets are off.
Kathie Lee and Hoda’s demographic are those middle-age stay-at-home moms who don’t get out much. It’s the vicarious thrill of being in New York and watching celebrity chefs make haute cuisine and clothes designers and beautiful, skinny models showing off the latest fashions from Milan and Paris, and the hostesses drinking wine at 10 in the morning, when the viewers themselves live somewhere like Salina, Kansas, know their husbands and kids won’t eat anything more exotic than tater tot casserole, and haven’t worn a stitch of clothing in years that didn’t come from Wal-Mart.
Which doesn’t change the fact that I want to kick Kathie Lee in the teeth and tell Hoda to get a real job because working with Kathie Lee is making her dumber by the day.
Amen. And Kathie Lee treats her like dirt.
When I get home from working out I turn on the TV and this is on because I watch the Today show when I get up. There is not much else on, and I like hearing voices in the background. Most of the time it doesn’t bother me, but I guess today itdid.
I am a retired teacher from central Illinois, so you know how worldly that makes me. Can they really be drinking that early 5 days a week? I know they get up early so it’s not early to them, but don’t they get tired of it? I can’t believe Hoda doesn’t just say, “Give me a Coke.” sometimes.
No, not really. As a middle-aged stay-at-home-mom who doesn’t get out much, I think they both act like idiots. 
But to be fair, Hoda Kotb used to be a fairly decent fill-in on the news desk for the Today show. She used to be a credible, serious broadcast journalist. I cannot fathom why she opted for this career path, but frankly, if I had to deal with Kathy (Kathie? whichever) Lee five days a week, I’d be drinking by 10 a.m. too.