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So it was late, I was nearly home and starving. So I decide to pull into the local arches for some quick grub.
It's about 11 o'clock and I found out later that there were only 2 people working. There's a minivan ahead of me at the speakerbox. He's sitting there for a good five minutes...I mean, an abnormally long time. I'm not in a particular rush so I sit and wait. Meanwhile, a car full of teens pulls in behind me.
Finally the minivan pulls ahead to the next window and I pull up to the call box to see a MASSIVE order on the screen (something like forty/fifty dollars worth of food).
I sit and wait for another four or five minutes without a peep over the com. But again, I'm patient, not in a rush. Oh, and also, it's pouring rain (important to the story).
After a couple minutes waiting the teen guys in the car behind me begin flashing their lights and yelling at me out the driver's side window, telling me to pull up, come on, they'd like to order. I ignore them because A) I'm not going to stick my head out in the pouring rain and b) I'm sure as heck not pulling up until _I_ get to order.
They start yelling louder, cussing and swearing and demanding that I pull up. Just about then, the girl comes on the speaker and apologizes, tells me there's only two of them working and asks for my order. I give it to her and she gives me my total. Takes less than ten seconds from the time she answers the com until I pull up.
I go to the window and pay and she again apologizes. I tell her it's fine and make a joke about what kind of person waits until 1100 at night to order enough food to feed ten people at a drive thru. I pull forward to the pickup window and the teenagers pull up to the pay window. I'm watching them in my rearview hoping they're not asses to the poor frazzled girl when I saw karma take over.
The driver pulled too far away from the window to reach, he leans very far out of his window (to the point he's almost sitting on the sill), and goes to hand her what is clearly a bunch of cash and a lot of change he's balancing precariously in his hand.
And he drops it.
Right into a big puddle.
I get my food and can't help giggling to myself as I pull away, looking in my rearview and seeing the rude driver out of his car and scrounging miserably in a puddle for his money. I only feel bad that the poor girl had to handle wet money after that.
It's about 11 o'clock and I found out later that there were only 2 people working. There's a minivan ahead of me at the speakerbox. He's sitting there for a good five minutes...I mean, an abnormally long time. I'm not in a particular rush so I sit and wait. Meanwhile, a car full of teens pulls in behind me.
Finally the minivan pulls ahead to the next window and I pull up to the call box to see a MASSIVE order on the screen (something like forty/fifty dollars worth of food).
I sit and wait for another four or five minutes without a peep over the com. But again, I'm patient, not in a rush. Oh, and also, it's pouring rain (important to the story).
After a couple minutes waiting the teen guys in the car behind me begin flashing their lights and yelling at me out the driver's side window, telling me to pull up, come on, they'd like to order. I ignore them because A) I'm not going to stick my head out in the pouring rain and b) I'm sure as heck not pulling up until _I_ get to order.
They start yelling louder, cussing and swearing and demanding that I pull up. Just about then, the girl comes on the speaker and apologizes, tells me there's only two of them working and asks for my order. I give it to her and she gives me my total. Takes less than ten seconds from the time she answers the com until I pull up.
I go to the window and pay and she again apologizes. I tell her it's fine and make a joke about what kind of person waits until 1100 at night to order enough food to feed ten people at a drive thru. I pull forward to the pickup window and the teenagers pull up to the pay window. I'm watching them in my rearview hoping they're not asses to the poor frazzled girl when I saw karma take over.
The driver pulled too far away from the window to reach, he leans very far out of his window (to the point he's almost sitting on the sill), and goes to hand her what is clearly a bunch of cash and a lot of change he's balancing precariously in his hand.
And he drops it.
Right into a big puddle.
I get my food and can't help giggling to myself as I pull away, looking in my rearview and seeing the rude driver out of his car and scrounging miserably in a puddle for his money. I only feel bad that the poor girl had to handle wet money after that.
as there was nothing any of us could do until that order was completed. If that person was in that much of a hurry, they really should have parked and gone inside as it was a nice summer day outside.
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