Mystery at the drive-thru

[greek_jester]

Personally, I think it's foolish to go through a drive-through window at McDonalds at all. Just go inside, buy a soda, and relax with the free refills and the wi-fi for as long as you please. Let everyone else drive each other batty at the drive-through.

When I have my mother in the car we go through the drive-through and go park somewhere at the back of the car-park to eat it without a soundtrack of screaming kids. I am not spending 10 minutes putting mum's wheelchair together, getting her out of the car and settled into the wheelchair, to then have to wait 20-40 minutes for a table to turn up where we can fit the wheelchair against the table without blocking the aisle.

In the UK you don't get free refills of soft drinks, so that's not a valid reason for 30-50 minutes of pain and stress. I am also there with my mother, who I enjoy talking to, so why would I be playing on my phone? Tell me, am I still "foolish" for going through the drive-through with that set of circumstances?

Just because drive-through doesn't work for you doesn't mean that there aren't good reasons for other people to use it. Please be more cautious with your sweeping statements.

[Food Lady]

^ hence Kristev's use of the word "personally".

[raudf]

At my local Golden Arcs, I prefer to walk in. Usually, it's faster and more often, the order is correct. Actually, that's true of all the places I tend to frequent.

I wish corporate would get that some of us would rather wait five minutes for the correct order than 1 minute for the wrong one.. which then turns it into a 10 minute ordeal.

[catcul]

People circle the lot at the gym to get the closest possible and then go inside to walk on the treadmill.

Do you mean these guys?

[Food Lady]

^LOL Where did you find that?!?

[taxguykarl]

At my local Golden Arcs, I prefer to walk in. Usually, it's faster and more often, the order is correct. Actually, that's true of all the places I tend to frequent.

+1
It's a whole lot easier to check your order when you are there at the counter than in a car with a half-dozen cars behind you....and easier to get it corrected, come to think of it.

[Seshat]

I totally understand the folks who have wheelchairs, infants/toddlers, walking aids and the like to deal with. Or people for whom walking is painful or difficult, for whatever reason.

Toth and Bast often leave me in the car and go in and grab whatever. It's probably not the ideal plan for people wanting to be with their passenger - though if I can make it inside, those uncomfy seats are still one way to be with.

[Mr Hero]

Maybe all those drivers are wearing bunny slippers so they ain't leaving their ride.

[dalesys]

Maybe all those drivers are wearing bunny slippers so they ain't leaving their ride.

Weeeel... they're sexually explicit *Playboy* Bunny slippers...

[purple]

Maybe all those drivers are wearing bunny slippers so they ain't leaving their ride.

Learnt my lesson about wearing slippers through drive through. The day I went into BK wearing fuzzy green slippers and leggings (I am aware they arnt pants I wasn't planning on getting out of the car) to complain.