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  • Annoying Things People do in Drive-thrus

    I used to work in a drive-thru, which was ten times worse than the front counter. The things that really pissed me off were this:

    1). People talking on their cell phones LOUDLY because they thought they were sooooo cool on that phone. They would talk for a while before finally ordering, and the conversation usually consisted of stupidity like, "Guess where I am?!?" Then the customer behind them would complain about the line being slow.

    2). Screaming kids in the backseat.

    3). People, almost always guys, with loud trucks. I can't hear them over the trucks.

    4). People cutting into line because they don't want to wait.

    5). People who pulled up to the first window, threw the money down, and sped away to the next one, almost always because they were short and thought I wouldn't notice.

    6). People starting their orders with, " I NEED." Okay, so that one isn't a drive-thru thing. I wanted to snap back, "No, you don't NEED a Big Mac. You don't NEED a super size soda."

    7). One time this guy came through the line, and when he pulled up to window, he had his hand in his girlfriend's crotch. Then he used the same hand to give me the money. Ewwwwww!

    8). People who sit there saying, "uh, uh, uh, I don't know what I want. Wait. Um, um, uhhhhh..." for a long time.

    9). People coming through smelling strongly of pot. That made me sick at my stomach.

    10). People who literally pound on the window after I've closed it because they want more napkins, and then yell at me over it.

    11). They tell me exactly how many ice cubes they want. Really. Once this guy did that to me, and was being rude in general. While I was filling his drink, a fly flew in there and died. I kept filling up. He didn't notice because he was too busy yelling at me.

  • #2
    I gotta agree with you on all everything except the one part about leaving a dead fly in someone's drink. That's just stooping to his level IMO.

    Kibbles

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    • #3
      This is one that happend to a friend of mine you will need brain bleach , a man in his 50s drove through and talked about how great sex was after the age of 50.
      The Grand Galactic Inquisitor hears all and sees all.

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      • #4
        My brother and some friends went through the drive through backwards a few times years ago. By "backwards" I mean they put the car in reverse and drove backwards through the drive through the correct way. They where polite and everything, person in the passenger seat ordered, gave the money, and took the food. How they did it with a straight face I will never know. Always got funny looks from the people working there. Then there where the times they did a Chinese Fire Drill at a red light during rush hour.
        "Magic sometimes sounds like tape." - The Amazing Johnathan

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        • #5
          When I worked at McD's, we had two guys in separate cars come thru the drive-thru...dont know if they were related to each other, or if it was a road rage thing. The first guy ordered his food and pulled up to my window and paid. Guy behind him was following him very closely...kept tapping the first guy's bumper with his car. Pretty soon guy #1 put his car into reverse and backed up...tires spinning, smoke pouring out of his tires. Then the car in front of him moved, so he pulled up.

          Guy #2 pulled forward...very fast. TAP

          #1 put his car in reverse, tires spinning, smoke pouring.

          #2 started yelling that #1 was going to set off his air bag.

          Finally (slow day in the d-thru, and I think the manager was stalling so the cops could get there) the car at the window pulled away. #1 pulled up, got his food and started to pull out. #2 followed him and they did some weird bumper car thing until they got out to the access road when the Omaha PD and the Douglas county Sheriff's showed up.


          We also had a regular customer who would show up in the drive-thru. He was usually a little underdressed, wearing bright red lipstick, and apparently had not shaved, bathed or straightened up his comb-over before deciding that he wanted a Big Mac with extra sauce.

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          • #6
            Bout the strangest looks I've ever gotten, is driving up to the local DQ to get a slushie in my jeep.

            Mind you, this is at a point when I have the doors off, the roof off, the front windscreen laid down, and a ball cap backwards on my bald head.

            However, the best yet was after a costume party some years ago. Imagine the fun when two guys in an old black and white cop car pull through looking every bit the part of Jake and Elwood blues. We did try to order two whole chickens and a coke with dry white toast for the other order, but the guy taking the order (seeing us in the camera) couldn't stop laughing enough to take it.
            Learn wisdom by the follies of others.

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            • #7
              One Halloween years back I went as a Blues Brother. One scary thing about it is that I got the entire costume--white shirt and socks, black shoes, pants, belt, jacket and hat--from my wardrobe without laying out any money.

              Anyway, people would inevitably ask me which Blues Brother I was. And in my best deadpan expression/Dan Aykroyd impression, I would say:

              "Elwood. Jake's dead, ma'am."

              For some reason, some people didn't find that all that funny. The rest of them, though, cracked the hell up.

              "The Customer Is Always Right...But The Bartender Decides Who Is
              Still A Customer."

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              • #8
                Quoth Cosmic Cat View Post
                1). People talking on their cell phones LOUDLY because they thought they were sooooo cool on that phone. They would talk for a while before finally ordering, and the conversation usually consisted of stupidity like, "Guess where I am?!?" Then the customer behind them would complain about the line being slow.
                Wow, I thought people stopped playing the "Guess where I'm calling from" game back when car phones were still the new thing.
                You're not doing me a favor by eating here. I'm doing you a favor by feeding you.

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                • #9
                  off topic, I love Blues Brothers!

                  back on topic, I hate it when people smoke in drive thru and breathe all the nice smoke in my face. I'd rather not get lung cancer from THEIR decision to smoke, thankyouverymuch. I think that if they can't smoke inside, they shouldn't be allowed to smoke in the drive thru lane either, because it's almost like smoking inside. Bah.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Cosmic Cat View Post
                    3). People, almost always guys, with loud trucks. I can't hear them over the trucks.
                    I was kinda guilty of this one for a while. I had no idea just how loud my Camaro was to the people working drive-thrus. I've learned to turn it off whenever I'm ordering.
                    "I don't have an anger problem I have an idiot problem!" - Hank Hill

                    When in deadly danger, when beset by doubt, run around in little circles, wave your arms and shout!

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Cosmic Cat View Post
                      6). People starting their orders with, " I NEED." Okay, so that one isn't a drive-thru thing. I wanted to snap back, "No, you don't NEED a Big Mac. You don't NEED a super size soda."
                      Ughhhhh. Nothing to do with fast-food, but that is just one of my biggest pet peeves, when people confuse the word "need" with the word "want."

                      In college, I knew a guy who always "needed" the newest computer system avaliable. I knew another guy who "needed" an X-Box 360.

                      No! You don't "need" that!!!

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Crosshair View Post
                        My brother and some friends went through the drive through backwards a few times years ago. By "backwards" I mean they put the car in reverse and drove backwards through the drive through the correct way.
                        We (my family and I) did that one night at Steak N Shake. I was in late middle school or early high school I think, and we were in a minivan (sliding doors come in handy haha). It must have been like 9pm - dad decided we were going on a 'road trip' to SNS, so we piled in. When he backed in, my mother went haha. The best part was when a car pulled in behind...er...in front of us, the look on his face was also . Through some sort of sign language/gesturing, we convinced him that he wasn't insane, we were haha. The drive thru lady was amused, and we were all polite and all. We figured we'd give her something to break up the night.
                        Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

                        Proverbs 22:6

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                        • #13
                          I have got to try that just for the amused looks. My friends will think I'm crazy but it would be worth it.
                          The Grand Galactic Inquisitor hears all and sees all.

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                          • #14
                            I drove my brother and his friends to a Dairy Queen one night way back when thasy all spoke to each other still. Bro's in the passenger seat, and we're sitting in the drive thru. As I pull up to the speaker, he suddenly leaned over me, to place the order out my window. (Okay, whatever.) And ends the order with, "...and a free smile!"
                            Whoever was taking the order was obviously very congused by this, as she didn't give us the total just yet, so my brother took the opportunity to ask for a free smile again.
                            Finally, we get our total, and I pull into the drive around area. Suddenly, there's a knock on my window, so I roll it down to be confronted with a cop.
                            "That wasn't funny, you know you could be heard throughout the restaurant."
                            *blink, blink* "That would be my brother's fault, he ordered."
                            I am such a stool pigeon. Ah, well, not like he got in trouble for it other than a talking to.
                            "I call murder on that!"

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                            • #15
                              The most irritating thing that comes to mind right now is when Mommy & Daddy thought it would be cute for the kids to place their own orders.....from the back seat......with the windows that only roll part-way down. Then they'd get mad 'cause you couldn't hear them..

                              AARGH. (and it's been 10 years since I worked fast food).
                              That is so full of suck Dyson doesn't know how they did it - shankyknitter

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