Annoying Things People do in Drive-thrus

[Giggle Goose]

I felt so bad this one time at about midnight when me and my friends went to the 24-hour McD's. I was trying to place the order and asked the lady what the late-night menu was. But these annoying fat girls in the car behind us were screaming: "2 THRU 9! YOU CAN ONLY ORDER 2 THRU 9! HURRY UP!" So they keep on yelling this even when I'm trying to place my order, and the order taker couldn't hear me. So I had to repeat the whole time over a few times cuz these chicks are like '2 THRU 9 YOU DUMB BITCHES!!!!" and just wouldn't shut up, and THEN they started blaring this really annoying pop music, so finally I was like "YEAH YOU KNOW WHAT THE MENU IS BECAUSE YOU PROBABLY EAT HERE EVERY DAY YOU FAT BITCHES! NOW SHUT THE FUCK UP!" So the order taker was getting so irritated that she had become very stern with us, and there was a huge line behind us at this point. Finally, my friend gets out of the car, goes to their car, and screams "BITCH YOU BETTER SHUT UP BEFORE I PUNCH YOU IN THE MOUTH.' Silence. Complete and total silence. I guess it's worth mentioning that my friend is black. I know this sounds horribly racist and I apologize for offending anyone, but I think her words shut them up because they were these spoiled, white preppy little bitches probably in Daddy's SUV, and that was probably one of the only times they had seen a black person in their life so they were pretty scared!!!!! I ended up not eating my food for fear of the bodily fluids I'd be ingesting after what we put those poor McD's employees through. They deserve a hefty raise for dealing with people like that!!!!!!!!!!

[Seanette]

Not annoying, but we had 2 girls actually ride their horses through our drive-thru. Now, this is a good size town (population was about 50-60k at the time), and this was one of the main roads through town. Not exactly rural, but I have to give them credit. Those horses were taking everthing in stride. My mare would have been bouncing off the walls if she had been in that situation.

For some reason, this had me wondering if drive-throughs (can't bring myself to use the butchered short form) in areas with a significant Amish population see horse-drawn vehicles come through very much.
[Note: I mean absolutely no disrespect to the Amish, for anyone who might be a bit on the PC-sensitive side. I've never known any personally, but I've heard that they're wonderful people.]

[BusBus]

I have managed to repressed my drive-thru days, but I can remember a couple of things.

1) "It's to go". Well, duh.

2) Multiple orders in one vehicle. Not such a big deal, if everybody gives me their orders one at a time. Not usually the case. The people usually shout what they want, regardless of who is talking. Person A gives half of their order, then Person B starts their order. Person A then continues their order, while Person C is asking questions regarding meal deals. Bonus point if they wait until they get to the window to let you know that the orders are separate.

[Crosshair]

then decides to shout "we want to buy some drugs" and "WEST SIDE, ES!" at people... he needs to learn that people who are hanging around in a parking lot after midnight with baseball bats aren't there to play baseball.

That is when you shove them out the door and hit the gas.

[stickycoins]

I just HAVE to post this one.....Back in high school one of my friends' parents went out of town for the weekend. They had a pool in the back yard. Party ensued. Smoking and skinny-dipping involved. Well of course with all that going on, some of us got hungry and decided to go to the closest fast-food place. Don't remember what it was, might have been BK. But anyway, the 3 of us got right out of the pool and into the truck. Did I mention we were skinny-dipping? Yep, went through the drive-through stark-ass naked!

[Lace Neil Singer]

There's only one drive thru near me, and it's near the place where I took my preliminary bike test. So, halfway thru it, all of us taking the CBT broke for lunch and decided to go to the drive thru... in full bike gear, minus the lids, in a car. To their credit, the staff never commented; guess they were used to the sight.

[draftermatt]

Gah, I remembered one from my craptastic days at Burger King.

Lady comes thru and orders a small coffee. Pulls to the 1st window to pay, and its taking forever. I don't know what's going on, but she pulls up, I give her the coffee and she leaves.

1st window guy comes up and says "Why'd you ring her up wrong?"
"I didn't, she asked for small coffee"
"She was a senior citizen, and wanted to pay the senior discount price"
"How am I supposed to tell through a head set that she's a senior citizen if she doesn't order that"

The other one was the lady who came through the drive through wanting a refill of diet coke. (Wer'e not supposed to do this, but I was only there for one more week, so I didn't care). I gave the lady her diet...

She came the frick back!!! Claimed it was a regular coke, and she needed diet because she was diabtec. Well I know I pressed the diet thing, and gave her that. I told her she needed to come inside then, because there was nothing I could do for her.

Why they trained me on drive through with 1 week left I'll never know. Makes as much sense as having me work a breakfast shift when I had never done it before. And again, I had already put in my two weeks notice.

[Jester]

For some reason, this had me wondering if drive-throughs (can't bring myself to use the butchered short form) in areas with a significant Amish population see horse-drawn vehicles come through very much.

I have a friend who lives in that area. I will ask her. Since the Amish tend to keep to themselves AND don't usually bother with modern conveniences (and I would imagine fast food would not fall into their old-fashioned rustic lifestyle), I would think not, but who knows?

Yep, went through the drive-through stark-ass naked!

[friendofjimmyk]

My most recent b/f (now ex) and I would drive thru occasionally.. Did I mention he was an asshole? No. Okay, he was/is an asshole. I've had two bad experiences with him in a drive thru - well, every experience was bad, but these two stand out

Taco Bell drive thru:

I was eating, he wasn't. I ordered. After giving my order, I *GASP* changed my mind, I didn't see this little meal deal thing they had. So, told the lady I was sorry, but I needed to change that. She said, "Okay, hold on a minute" No problem. Not to the ex. He slammed the car in gear and sped through the drive thru bitching about how he hates people who change their order and don't I know what they do to the food when people change their order!?!? I was like, "Provided I am not being a bitch about changing it (which I wasn't), they change it". He squealed out of there like a bat out of hell because he was so embarrassed that I had the audacity to change my order.

Another time, at McD's:

I like McD's BBQ sauce for my burgers and my fries. Call me funny. It tastes good. We go through the drive thru. Get our food, he's driving, I ask him to please ask the lady for some BBQ sauce. He acknowledges. She comes back with our drinks, we drive off. I said, "You didn't ask for my BBQ sauce" Then he launched into a tirade about me thinking I am so special that I have to have BBQ sauce for my food. He hates people that order stuff all special and he finds it annoying. Nevermind the fact that he does so at restaurants we go to when we sit down.

Did I mention I broke up with him?

[Banrion]

Did I mention I broke up with him?

Frankly, from those stories, I'm not quite sure how you stayed with him long enough to make it through a drive-through twice.

[Sofar]

I like McD's BBQ sauce for my burgers and my fries.

It's strange, I can't stand McDonald's or Burger King otherwise, but I've had one of those McRibs and that barbeque sauce is curiously tasty.

[thegiraffe]

Yep, went through the drive-through stark-ass naked!

Some people, that wouldn't be so horrible. Others, some would be required in copious amounts. Guess it depends on what category you're in

[ginlyn32]

In my hometown where I grew up, the McD's was right beside a railroad tracks and they were always telling you to wait untill the train went by to order. I think they finally put up a sign Reading "If there is a train on tracks, please wait untill the train passes to order. Thank You." Because according to the town ordinence, the train had to blow the whistle at every intersection all through the city limits. And it could get loud. The train ran like every 30 min.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

Say...I seem to remember a story from one of the old boards, about some guy picking up an order in a drive-thru wearing a banana suit and driving a homemade go-kart.

I wonder whose story that was?

[Erin]

I like McD's BBQ sauce for my burgers and my fries. Call me funny. It tastes good. We go through the drive thru. Get our food, he's driving, I ask him to please ask the lady for some BBQ sauce. He acknowledges. She comes back with our drinks, we drive off. I said, "You didn't ask for my BBQ sauce" Then he launched into a tirade about me thinking I am so special that I have to have BBQ sauce for my food. He hates people that order stuff all special and he finds it annoying. Nevermind the fact that he does so at restaurants we go to when we sit down.

McD's in your area will actually let you have BBQ sauce even if you're not getting the chicken nuggets?? The McD's that's down the street from my house has these two employees (I call them twins, even tho one girl is black and the other is white, they've both got identical bad attitudes) that absolutely refuse to give me any BBQ and Sweet & Sour sauce for my french fries (got addicted to both sauces on my fries when I worked for McD's)

I ask, and they'll go into a diatribe about how they have to charge me a quarter for an extra sauce. (a nickel I could understand, since that's actually how much they're worth, but a quarter?!) I'll start to get a quarter out and they'll actually start arguing with me about how they're not allowed to "give" me any sauces unless I've ordered nuggets...and godforbid if I do buy nuggets but ask for extra nugget sauces! (I'm standing there with a quarter, waiting for them to take it and hand me a sauce packet, but they're still "explaining" things)

Even if I'm perfectly willing to hand them a quarter for the sauce, they'll act as if I'm complaining about it. That's the point where I either give up, or I'll ask them for a manager to come give me my money back, since my food will be cold at that point and I've suddenly decided that Wendy's or Burger King sound better.

I'll do the same at BK, get the BBQ and sweet & sour sauces, at least at BK they'll cheerfully hand me as many sauces that I ask for. They dont taste as good as McD's sauces tho.

I quit going to McD's for breakfast too, even tho that's my favorite fast food place for breakfast. They've got the same cheap attitude over the syrup and butters. There's another McD's about 2 miles away that's not so cheap-assed, but I dont think it's as clean as the one near my house.