September 13, 2010
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Umm, it’s the drive thru.
What the fuck is so hard about it? I mean, really? How many times have you been here?
WHY is it taking you 5 minutes to order?? I would really like to know, for real. What are you doing there? I didn’t know you were ordering a porterhouse and had to tell the waiter exactly how you wanted it prepared.
Then there’s limited space between the pay window and the window where you get your food, and you leave too much room, so I can’t pull up to the window and pay until you pull forward. This is a drive thru, not the interstate. I think you can get a little closer to the person in front of you.
I see the drive thru person hand you your one little bag and your cup of whatever you’re drinking. What?! Seriously?! It took you 5 minutes to order, and that’s all you have?? I thought you were ordering for an army, that’s CRAZY!! Then you check your bag, and I see you give it back. What? Ugh.
Why are you so annoying?? I want to punch you in the back of your skull.
The entire time I’m behind you, I ordered my meal in 10 seconds flat, while the cashier tries to interrupt me asking all kinds of questions, and I’m telling her exactly what I want. Then I pretty much ride your bumper because you didn’t pull up far enough and I really wanted the extra time I was there to think of an alternate way to pay in case my credit card doesn’t go through. I finally am able to pay and then pull up to the second window and get my order right away and I check it really quick and then I’m on my way.
That was the hardest thing I’ve ever had to do in my life. The most stressful amount of time out of my day.
Seriously.
I didn’t know it was so hard to order fast food.
I will know for next time how I need to complicate things both for myself and for others.
Comments (21)
I have a 30 minute lunch break at work, which occasionally turns into a 5 minute lunchbreak when I have soccermom debbie doolittle and her 8 kids in front of me.
McDonalds is the worst where I live. Part of it is the people ordering and the other part is the idiots taking the orders. I don’t know which causes the bigger problems!
I haven’t done fast food in a few years now, but when I did, I always got pissed when people sent shit back whilst being in the drive-thru. Pull into a parking space, check your stuff, then go in. The workers are the ones who have to “wait” (how snobby does THAT sound?!) on you, not us!
@ItIsAllGravy - We are no longer allowed to leave for lunch where I work, but I remember that from when we could!! grr :/
@bloggingqueen - I know!! Just let me order and if you have a question, wait until the end… then no dumb questions! kthx! lol
@airbornerose - YEARS?! OMG I totally think you should be MY wife and cook for meeeee
And this is just another reason why I no longer eat fast food
@crazy2love - hahahaha, actually, Fred does the cooking! We are just sort of health-nuts
lol. The problem when one wants to order food is… they’re too freaking hungry to be patient. Then again, you’re so right about them people and employees.
That’s my rant too–from the customer point of view! Regarding the other side of the window….I worked the drive-through at a McDonalds the summer I was 19. I went off on some lame-ass lady with 20 million coupons and a car full of half-naked noisy kids and 2 dogs. She kept changing her order and was screaming at me about it when I finally stuck my head out the window, yanked off my headset and pointed to my left saying “There’s a Burger King right down the street. I don’t have to serve you!” It’s a wonder I wasn’t fired after that, but my God, was it satisfying!
@fargoneandout - awesome. i love stories about people quitting their jobs like that.
believe it or not someone cut me off in the drive thru lane today. there was an opening, for some reason, and he totally cut in line in front of me and smiled. “do you really need your shitty food THAT badly?” i thought. i hate people most of the time.
i never have this problem because i rarely go to fast food restaurants. in fact, i can tell you exactly the last five times i went because they all involved starvation and poverty– dire unforgettable circumstances. lol
Heh, I actually went through the drive through at McDonalds today. It took a long time because the people working there couldn’t keep any of the orders straight and were confusing who order what.
The other day I heard someone say something funny: “They have all kinds o’ time in the South. It brings a whole new meaning to fast food.”
To be fair, maybe that person was doing gluten free. We are seriously a pain in the ass. But we have to be.
Then again, I try to go inside if I have to go be a pain in the ass. Unfortunately, it’s hard to find gluten free fast food but sometimes we just don’t have a choice.
I’ve learned to give people the benefit of the doubt in that case. There are more of us out there than most people realize.
I was once annoyed with a woman because she lied to me. I was stopped by a train and she was in the car behind me and all I wanted to do was throw my car in reverse, punch it (gas pedal) and rear end her all the way up the block, smoking tires and all. Well, drive-thrus make me want to do basically the same thing. I just want to plow the car in front of me out of the way and pull up, take my bag and haul ass back to work. Oh, if only society would allow me to do such a thing…
I miss In-N-Out. Its the only thing I miss about SoCal. Well, a few friends, too.
I hate people like that. That’s why when I go to any fast food drive thru, I already know what I want..so no one can be inconvenienced by me. It makes it easier really. Alas, I’m never working in fast food again..I hate those kind of people. I remember them when I was working drive thru in Taco Bell…
Mmmmmm I love me some unhealthy food.
Haha when this happens to me, I feel like it’s God’s way of saying, “Shanny, put down the chicken nugget and chocolate shake.” Haha. Oh well… tasty, unhealthy food is so worth it sometimes.
@Megan@revelife - Yes, I love In-N-Out! Double-double with animal fries
But I seriously don’t know how I’ll find a replacement for it once I leave socal..
Hahaha! I often feel the same way. I don’t roll through McDonald’s often, when I do it’s usually because my daughter and I are in the car, not going home for awhile and she’s hungry (she’s two, there’s nary a patient bone in her body lol). I’ll stop and get her some chicken nuggets (she doesn’t get the full happy meal with me, I don’t give her french fries. She’s learned that’s a Daddy thing, only at Daddy’s house lol) and a Hi-C and get myself a strawberry banana smoothie. Quick, easy, no questioning what I want so it drives me CRAZY when I’m stuck behind someone for five or ten minutes waiting for them just to order!
I REALLY hate the new setup for some of stores where they have the two drive thru lanes that merge before the windows. That’s when they REALLY start messing up orders and most of the time, they’re only taking one order at a time anyway – so what’s the point??
My bf is like that. He takes forever to order, while I just wait until I’m ready.