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I had a run in in the drive thru a couple years back. I pulled into one of the two lanes at McD, and another car went through the second lane. I wait my turn, and then try to pull forward, but the person in the other car was riding up on the bumper of the person ahead of them, like, clearly intentionally making sure there was no room for me to take my turn.
So I roll down my window and call out “Hey, they’re gonna get our orders mixed up” and before I’d even finished my sentence the driver GOES BALLISTIC on me. Just screaming “oh my God, really? Really?? Over a burger? Really?? Really? Really??” And I just rolled my window back up. The person drove forward just far enough to keep me from moving ahead, but not far enough to get to the first window to pay. They waited. Waited until the line cleared up. Then they gunned it past the pay window and straight to the food window.
I pulled up to the pay window, rolled mine down and loudly declared “Yeah, could I get my receipt too? I think this person ahead of my is trying to take my food!”
At which point the driver ahead of me peeled out of the drive thru without having received any food.
Window person said that such a tactic had been done a few other times that month by other people.
Sell car, buy food
In Soviet US, door dashes you.
McD is the kind of place where they would say “Tough shit, re-order” as well. That’s why I stopped going like a decade ago.
Would have been hilarious if they slid into a curb while peeling out and got stuck because their wheel got fucked up.
And the lady order?
55 BURGERS 55 FRIES 55 TACOS 55 PIES 55 COKES 100 TATER TOTS 100 PIZZA 100 TENDERS 100 MEATBALLS 100 COFFEES 55 WINGS 55 SHAKES 55 PANCAKES 55 PASTAS 55 PASTAS AND 155 TATERS
And 100% reason to remember the name
Wow, I haven’t heard that song in a long time… thanks for the ear worm…
Nah, it was
I’ll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
a cheeseburger hold the cheese, a hamburger add cheese, a Big Mac with no onion tomato lettuce or special sauce, a large coke, no ice, a small coke with extra ice, 7 large fries with no salt
I was driving back from Atlanta a few years ago and stopped into a chicfila drivethru to grab some lunch on the go. I didn’t realize how backed up they were until i was already stuck in line and had no way to get out. There were 2 parking lot entrances merging into 1 drive-thru lane, the guy in front of me let a car from the other lane go in, then he went, so I figured the understanding was zipper merging and just taking basic turns so I let the other car go, then I went. When I got to the person to take me order she said “The guy in front of you has already paid for your meal for letting them go in front of you.”
When basic courtesy is so rare it needs to be rewarded.
And everybody clapped
LET ME HAVE THIS
This definitely happened.
I worked a drive-through for long enough to believe it.
Same. Every day was like a lengthy masterclass in infinite fresh flavors of assholery and Karen-hood. As soon as you think you’ve plumbed the shadowy depths of the human condition, the floor comes out from under you. Then, all of a sudden, you’re gazing straight into the maw of a clapped out Chevy Trailblazer where there used to be a drive thru window, and the driver is now prancing around nude, ranting about dipping sauces and firing a 12-gauge into the ceiling tiles.
Then everyone clapped and he was crowned king and now he lives on McDonald’s Mountain.
A king of burgers, a Burger King
Wendy
That’s his wife
that’s his wife, the Dairy Queen.
In-N-out…shake shack…five guys…
Not acusdomed to drive throughs. How would the guy get the karens receipt?
By paying for it at the first window. He’s in front of her. He gets to pay, says “I’m paying for me and car behind me. I need both receipts please”
Goes to second window for pickup. Shows both receipts, gets given both orders.
Leaves.
And only McDonalds wins.
eh. they get the same amount of business either way
Ooooh. Thanks for explaining :)
I wish i had fuck you level of money.where i can afford to do things like this
How would the person behind have already ordered if they’re behind?
Why would the cashier not check with the person behind that they want someone else to pay?
The whole thing sounds implausible and ragebait.
This literally happens all the time… Have you been through a drive through?
You order first, then at the first window you pay, then at the second window you pick up what you ordered. So you can pay for the car behind you, people do it, sometimes they get a long chain of people doing it, all paying for the car behind them.
Personally I think the long chain is dumb, and I won’t participate if I’m in the middle. If nobody ends it then nobody benefits from it. Might as well be me, I’m not rich.
However… you are right, I don’t think it would be easy to take the food of the car behind you, even if you paid for it. I’ve never worked in fast food but I’m sure there’s checks in place to make sure the right car gets the food, so you’d have to explain yourself. I imagine?
Edit: reminded me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATjL9CmwkCo
I have, but not in a long time.
I didn’t know payment chains were a thing. Makes little sense to me, the Tim Robinson sketch kind of shows the gist of why, but why not.
Drive through consists of five distinct locations:
- Ordering at a speaker stand.
- Paying at the first window (which is not where you ordered)
- Waiting at the second window to get told to go to the third window.
- Being told to move out of the line, and park next to it, because an order of a royale with cheese, a medium fries with mayo, and a medium sprite is too complex of an order to process fast.
- Going down the highway, crying because nobody remembers pulp fiction, and eating your bag of crap.
You are assuming that A) drive thru workers give a fuck & B) drive thru workers give a fuck.
“I want to pay for the car behind me” THEM: “ok”
“I need to grab both these orders.” THEM: “ok”They aren’t paid enough to care. At worst the second car had to wait for her food to be remade and got it for free - the horror.
If this is true that’s incredible
But also you should have an idea what you want before you go through the drive through. That’s common curtsy.
Dude I eat fast food like twice a year. I have no idea what I want when I roll up. The menus change often as well.
That’s common curtsy.
I think you mean “courtesy”
Cutesy
Are you srsly flirting with me rn?? While I’m trying to read the new taco bell combos?! Omg 😳
That’s fine, but there are people don’t think about it until they get to the front, even inside.
And for the record I think drive through should be abolished. They’re a waste of space.
Often it’s actually quicker just to go inside.
When I was working fast food, during rush they prioritized the drive-thru orders over the indoor customers. Drive time was tracked and needed minimized, people waiting inside were presumably expected to be more patient.
It’s been a few decades, but I still see cars slide through a lot faster than our orders when we go in.
Yeah, but only a couple cars can have orders placed at most, so your wait time is the sum of all cars in front of you.
That’s changed now a bit, there are multi lines and they ask you to pull over and wait. But still.
It varies by restaurant, but I’ve had my family waiting in fast food restaurants, order already placed, for 15-20 minutes while I’m seeing cars entering the parking lot and leaving within four minutes or so. And it’s not like they forgot us (had that too), usually others were already there and also had to wait a while.
It’s not everywhere, but Ive seen it multiple times with multiple chains. Online pickups don’t seem to have it as bad, but drive times are absolutely prioritized over indoor wait times
But also you should have an idea what you want before you go through the drive through.
They have a menu for a reason. You don’t get to act entitled to other people’s ability to look at a menu at the restaurant to decide what they want – nor do you forfeit yours – just because you decided not to leave your stupid car to get your food. “Oh, gee, I’m wasting gas waiting for them to order.” Then go inside or order ahead.
Eating random extra garbage for what? She just goes around ordering again.
You could give the extra food to someone who needs it and wasn’t being a hugely entitled bitch.
The reason would be that the rudely impatient person has to wait in line again. Unfortunately the punishment will be lost on them, and they’ll take it out on the employees that don’t get paid a living wage.
Yep. A mild inconvenience for a mild offense
Of course it’s made up. How does one pay for an order which hasn’t been made?
Americans are so car-brained that “I was at McDonalds” means “I was in the drive-thru line outside McDonalds”
Do you carry around an air horn to honk it at people in restaurants?
No, which is why it was weird to read about a lady honking at jarrett when he was “at McDonalds”.
Because you can’t read? Drive thru exist in Europe.
And are far less commonly used than the counter inside the restaurant. In fact, I’d guess that the most popular fast food restaurants are actually inside train stations where there is no drive-thru lane, of course.
“I hope they see me in the drive through lane!”
No one should be giving money to IDF burger
Apartheid burgers and a geno-side of fries
Is McDonald’s all that much more active in supporting Israel than any other corporate fast food chain?
Ya they control the government
Yeahp you’re right there boycott them all. Haven’t touched one of them since the start of the genocide and my local independent places are so much better, like ridiculously better flavours not relying on adding addictive shite to keep you going back
Plus their “food” is just trash anyway!
🥇
I’d almost put money on the attendant asked the guy to wait a moment, then this lady honked because she had to wait in line for an extra 14.7 seconds…but when it was her turn to order she stared at the menu for 2 minutes, then ordered for more people who can fit into her car.
The same type of person at the grocery store who will complain yOuRe TaKiNg ToO lOnG if someone is looking at something she wants, but then will park her cart in the middle of the aisle and stand there for 4 straight minutes.
Bro ended up with Big Smoke’s order
Their revenge on the woman was to pay for their own food
And hers? They took both… making her need to order all over again after being told the person in front paid. So, she likely got excited for free food then was even more pissed when said food was neither free nor available at the second window…
I mean it wasted a bit of time on both side but she could probably just order at the receiving window, since the workers would know the situation already
Sounded like she was in more of a rush than he was and even if it did have an easy solution, the type that gets pissed off at a slight delay from a person being ahead of them in a drive thru is likely going to get pissed off every time she thinks of it.
And even if the workers understood what was happening, I’d say it was a coin toss whether they prepared to help her vs just wanted to enjoy the guy’s trolling.
Though there’s a decent chance that the person on cash and the person handing out the food didn’t stop to talk to each other to figure out what was going on and that it took more minutes just to understand what was happening when she got to the front of the line.
I mean he did have to explain to someone he was paying for the other person’s order so someone there was aware
I haven’t used a drive through in decades. How is one able to pay for the next person’s food?
You just ask. It’s an American thing to do. They think it’s funny to do. Like tipping and charity and other things where you can pay for feeling good about yourself.
What happens is that the next car also pays forward and so on until the chain breaks. It makes the news every once in a while when they manage to keep it up for an entire day.
Sorry, maybe I’m just sunbeat and can’t think straight—or just an idiot—because I still don’t get it.
This is what I’m picturing. Blue car orders as the pink car waits (and honks like a jerk) in fig. 1, right? Then the blue car drives up to the pick-up window to pay for and get their food in fig 2, at which point the pink car can make their order.
At which point between 1. and 2. does the blue car have the opportunity to pay for pink car’s food, get the receipt, and take their order? Did the blue car just wait at the pick-up window until pink made the order? If that’s the case, wouldn’t the staff know that that’s not their order?
There are usually more steps: Order, wait, pay, wait, get food.
When you’re at pay, they already have the bill for the next car who is in wait.
Some drive thru have two windows, one where you pay and one where you pickup. So you just tell the pay window that you have your car and the car behind you.
Nowadays most places either only have one window and make one person do both jobs, also they don’t have to pay as many people. The overall service is slower, but no one seems to care enough.
Sometimes you can even find older restaurants that have two windows and one is just permanently closed.
Also Starbucks had (still has?) a trend where you pay for the car behind you as a sort of pay it forward thing. Although in that scenario you probably can’t take someone else’s food.
The last time i went through a drive thru was many years ago.
S’nice
