Why do some people insist on WALKING through the McDonald’s DRIVE-thru???
It is meant for cars, not pedestrians. Pedestrians are supposed to go inside!
Yes, “walking through the drive-thru” was fun in junior high and high school. But you are two GROWN adults. And not doing this to “recapture your youth”. You were just being stupid.
And the fact that you stood at the window after placing your order (which you placed after me, but before I could DRIVE up to the window ~ hence MY order was going to be up first) instead of moving out of the way made it so that I had to be EXTREMELY careful not to hit you.
Well the McDonald’s around here makes you go through the drive through after a certain hour, but I doubt that’s what was going on. Sometimes the line inside is horrendous, and it makes it very tempting to walk through the drive through.
Actually, I thought you were going to mention a situation that happened to me once. I was going through the drive thru, got my food, and noticed that there was a TIP JAR on the counter, right beside where you pick up your food. What did these people do to deserve a tip?! Maybe they just felt that they weren’t paid enough, so they would try to hit the customers up any chance they could get. But it was still a little stunning.
Here in CA all the drive-thrus have signs which say “pedestrians will not be served” or something to that effect. I remember walking around Hillcrest (a community of San Diego) late at night and the only place that seemed to be open was the CrapInaBox drive-thru. My friend Chris and I walked up and tried to order but they refused to serve us, even though we whined. As we were wheedling, a car pulled up behind us and we moved aside for it. The driver rolled his window down and my friend Chris walked over to talk to him. The guy offered to place our order for us, so Chris told this kindly stranger what we wanted. The man ordered, pulled up and paid, and my friend Chris walked up to get our food and pay him. They exchanged some quiet words, Chris shook his head and handed the guy a five. After the man pulled away and we were walking, eating, Chris told me the man had offered him the food free in exchange for a blowjob.
If I’d known, I would have kicked the guy’s ass: nobody underbids on this Pimp’s manhoes! Sheeeeeeeiit! Fried food for a blow job? :wally
Quite a few times, I’ve had to walk through the drive through ATM. I’ve no choice, sometimes ( for reasons that blow me away ) the bank sets up the ATM so that it is only accessable when the bank itself is open.
I walk up, and kind of scrunch down and do my thing. Now and then a car will drive up and give me dirty looks. Tough SHIT- I’m given no option at all. However, since the restaurant was open, they were just being assholes.
i was behind some cunt in a taco-hell drive thru. she must have ordered some monster order, cause when she got to the window, they told her it wasn’t ready and for her to pull up and park, they would bring it to her when it was ready. she pulls up about 10 feet and stops. i pull to the window, grab my freakin’ taco, then sit for about 15 seconds. (about 14 seconds too long, in my book, but i must have been feeling patient that night) she doesnt move, so i give her a tiny beep. this bitch looks back at me and says in the most cuntiest tone i have ever heard, “WHAT do YOU want?!?”
like, what the fuck do you think i want? i want to drive the fuck out of this goddamn line, and continue living my fucking life, lady! pull your goddamn piece of shit forward and out of my way!
i nearly got out and beat her with a tire iron. i swear if i had been driving my old ford pickup, i would have compacted her shitmobile into the retaining way!
“WHAT do YOU want?!?” i want you to taste your own blood!
(im better now, thanks! and by the way, the blow-job-for-fried-food-story was goddamn funny!)
I can understand restaurants getting POed when people walk through the drive-thru when it’s busy or when the restaurant is open, but what about those fast food places that close the restaurant but leave the drive-thru open late? If you’re walking by and there’s no one in the drive-thru line, why wouldn’t they mind?
IANAL, but I think it’s because the restaurant’s liable if some idiot is walking in the drive-thru lane, and gets creamed when a driver doesn’t realize he’s there, because after all, it’s a drive-thru (and thus vehicular traffic) lane. There might be some sort of paranoid security issue, as well.
i don’t personally see such a big deal about walking through the drive-thru, but it was pretty rude of them to get in your way. a drive-thru is meant for cars, and any pedestrians who happen to be about should get the fuck out of the way.
I don’t really care how long the line inside was, the drive thru is meant for people to “drive” thru it. Hence the name.
But more important than that (and my big issue with these people) was the fact that they then didn’t get the heck out of the way so that I could get through after my order came up. It was more a concern for their safety than anything.
Oh, and may I also say a hearty fuck you to the people who, although they plan to go inside to get their food, stand in front of the bloody drive-thru menu to decide what they want. Oh, I see brain damaged teenager is on the menu tonight! Sounds delicious. Urgh.
Dude, I know there’s a shortage of public restrooms out there, but if I saw you scrunched down next to the ATM “doing your thing” I’d give you a dirty look too. I mean, I have to DRIVE through there. I don’t want to get anything nasty on my tires.
I dunno, when I was in high school/early college working a summer job we would all go to the mcdonald’s across the street because it was a convenient place to gather right after work and grab something to eat. They had that thing where the drive through stayed open for a few hours after the restaurant closed. One night we observed two guys (stoned off their ass) walk side by side up to the drive thru, the one on the left pretending to steer and shift. They picked up their food and walked about ten feet where they proceeded to change an imaginary tire on their imaginary car, and then picked up two girls (also stoned) who then hopped in their “back seat” and “drove off” with them down the street. It was one of the most fantastically amusing things I have ever seen.
But yeah, with more relevance to the OP, if you are a fast food place and I want food and you have the restaurant closed and there’s nothing else around I’m going to walk through the drive thru. Although, I’ll be sure to wait my proper turn.
