Drive Through, fun or not?

[Hemily]

I had no clue where to stuff this, so i picked Off Topic, as it's not a complaint, or something i know much about...

i've never worked at a place with a drive through window, so i'm asking y'all here.

Are people who makes jokes, dress silly, or drive strange cars, annoying for the worker?

there's only one Drive Through shop locally, a McDonalds, when it first opened, we loved ordering food there, often while looking silly, or surprise them with weird cars, or just people who shoulden't be in cars, i got a couple examples, are they all bad? do we cause them grief or annoyance?

1.) Bad Drivers
often in the line, i see the car infront of me being someone in a tiny car, but think they have a giganourmous monster of a vehicle, they stop so far from the window, they can't reach it, and have to get out of the car after trying to reach the food, but failed.

2.) Lowered Cars
The typical yuth around here, thinks the lower the car it, the sportyer it is, some are so low, they can't reach the window, and often creates chaos in the line, having to move the car so they can get out to pick up the food and pay.

3.) Big Cars
This happened to me, i borrowed my dad's Ford Bronco, it's slightly modified with some bigger wheels and such, and unlike the ones that's too scared to get close to the window, i'm just inches from it.... now my problem was... the employee coulden't reach up to me.... o.O

4.) Dressing Up
We were bored, and it was close to halloween, even if it's not really celebrated in Norway, they still sell costumes, as we come to the window, what the employee see, is 4 people dressed completly black, all wearing a scream mask, and each one lifting their hand to show a random plastic toy weapon, and we laughed evilly, paid, and drove off with our meals.

5.) Making them do a double take in a way
I borrowed my grandmothers old car, i'm not a small person, neither were the three friends i brought with me, so 4 somewhat big people with big appetites, we get to the speaker thing, order 14 Big Macs and 4 large sodas, as we arrive around the corner and up by the window, they see 4 huge guys... in THIS (http://www.auto-selection.com/modules/MonAnnonce/photos_annonces/KA_001070706_grande.jpg) giant of a car, their faces was practically :eek: as they handed over all the Big Macs

do we annoy the workers? or are some of those jokes actually funny?

and have anyone else done any fun "pranks" like that on a drive through? :p

[digilight]

I worked drive thru at Burger King for a few years. Pretty much nothing was a shock unless it involved nudity, and I don't remember much of that. There was maybe a boob slipping out once or twice, but we never had a dirty old man pull it out or anything.

As for the vehicles, it can get annoying if you can't reach the person to get them their food/change/drink. Most people will open the door and get out if they need to, some will be jerks and make you crawl half way out the window.

Big orders thru the drive thru do suck though. This is simply for the fact that we are constantly being yelled at to get the times down as low as possible, and a big order will send it thru the roof. Hint, if you've ever been parked at a drive thru and they tell you that they will bring you your food, thats just to keep the times down as low as possible.

I actually enjoyed halloween time, seeing the costumes was allways pretty cool.

My biggest pet peeve was always loud cars and trucks, either big ass hot rod engine with glass pack mufflers or a POS with no muffler. Its hard as hell to hear the order over the car when its that loud.

[MystyGlyttyr]

Oh boy, Mysty has a wrestling story. I didn't do this myself but I've heard this story several times and it's always funny (to us wrestlers, probably not so much to the retail workers, le sigh). I won't name names for the sake of sanity, heh.

There were three wrestlers traveling by car together to a show...two men and a woman. They were getting hungry so they decided to go through a drive through for some late night supper. Two things to keep in mind here...

1. Wrestlers are starved for entertainment on the road.
2. Wrestlers drop each other on their heads for a living so their ideas of "fun" are a bit skewed.

Hence, the following idea came about. The three pulled into a darkened spot and "bound" the female's hands, then put tape over her mouth. She laid down in the backseat and the men covered her with a blanket, then went through the drive-thru and placed all their orders.

Once they got to the window, the blanket in the back starts moving and wiggling, and the passenger turns to yell into the backseat "I told you to quit wiggling around back there!!" Repeat this a few times while the driver calmly carries on his business at the window.

Finally, at the next window, while collecting their food (three drinks and three meals, heh), the woman abruptly sits up, throwing off the blanket and holding out her bound hands for her food, making very happy noises. The men hand it to her, and she lays back down and the passenger tosses the blanket back over her. The driver meanwhile looks at the window clerk and says point blank "You didn't see anything." Then peels out at top speed leaving heads being scratched everywhere.

Yes, we're a weird breed. :lol:

[Noo_Noo]

I have to mention that as an ex-macdonalds drive thru employee, these things would make my shift :D

I had a group of students crouch as though they were in a car, but weren't... They wound the window down and everything. Bless.

But no, its not annoying, we get a good laugh out of it usually...

[I See Stupid People]

As long as the joke doesn't make the person behind have to wait longer for their food, I don't see a big deal. Would it make me laugh? Maybe, but I'm afraid I'd be laughing AT, not WITH. :devil:

And maybe, I wouldn't get the joke. I'd just figure that was you normally :D


I did have a guy say something to me once... I don't remember what it was, but I do remember I had no idea what the heck he was trying to get at. Turns out he complained to the girl in the next window that I didn't have a sense of humor. (Apparently, he was trying to tell me a joke.) HA! I DO have one, I just didn't recognize yours!

[Seanette]

Being an ex-convenience store clerk, the bit with masks and apparent weapons would probably freak me out (I've been through one armed robbery, don't care to deal with another), and the pseudo-kidnapping would have had me calling 911.

The rest of the listed jokes were amusing. Keep in mind, I've never worked in fast food.

[HYHYBT]

As long as it doesn't hold up the line, involve ordering stuff you aren't buying, changing your order after it's made, insulting or attacking anyone (we once had someone throw a plate of ravioli in the presenter's face) or property damage, all's well. Oh, and don't make us think you're kidnapping someone. That sort of joke is only funny to those doing it, and I'm amazed you didn't have the police after you.

[protege]

One of the guys at Hechinger's actually took our forklift through the McDonald's (covered) drive-thru. From what he told us, the stacks *barely* cleared the roof! The boss wasn't too happy about it, because of the potential liability issues, even though he thought it was funny.

The only somewhat-funny incident I remember otherwise...was when my father and I took the MG through there. Because the car is low (not lowered, it's stock), he had to pull further away from the wall and get out to get the food. Annoying, but at least he did remember to turn the engine off when ordering--at the time, it was running, but not very well. It was down to only 3 cylinders--one of the plugs kept fouling, and the timing was off. He was sure the store employees wouldn't have enjoyed the roar. I'm sure the exhaust clouds would be tolerated though :p

[Hemily]

old cars are just fun :p

i used to have a 1978 Ford Mustang II, i had an exhaust leak, so even with the lousy V6 engine, it was loud, and sounded more like a V8, i miss that car, i would catch random people snapping pictures of it at the parkinglot when i went shopping (it's a kinda rare mustang here in Norway)

now i just have a old Buick :p

i think i'm guilty in not turning off my engine at the drive through tho, my first car was a Volvo from 1985, i kept blowing up the muffler, literally, it blew apart, the car was really strange, sounded like a rally car, and had flames coming out the exhaust, thus the muffler blowing up, it was LOUD, and i never turned it off when ordering >.>