What if you change your mind, or realize you have no way to pay, or there’s an emergency? Unless you hop a curb, you’re stuck.
What if you change your mind, or realize you have no way to pay, or there’s an emergency? Unless you hop a curb, you’re stuck.
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Isn’t it like every restaurant ? You order, eat and then realize you have no way to pay
Only reasonable thing to do is exit the car and run away as fast as possible
My anxiety always makes me concerned that my car is going to randomly break down while in the drive thru and the people behind me are gonna get mad at meš
Also, one time I was in the Starbucks drive thru, there were only like 6 cars ahead of me, and yet it took like 40 minutes. I did not want coffee that bad but I had no choice – I was trapped.
Yes. I don’t frequent in-n-out because there is no out, only the in. It can be 30 minutes sitting in the closed off drive through. So tight. Even if you wanted to leave by hopping a curb you couldn’t because beyond the curb it’s a full parking lot.
Waiting at a train crossing.
Haha yes! One time I was late for work and the line was moving really slowly so I just hopped the curb and left. I felt terrible, but hey.. gotta do what you gotta do.
Iāve waited in line only to be told up at the speaker that they donāt have an item so then you just drive off, but for emergencies and what not still would have to wait until itās clear enough to drive off.
I did this at taco bell a month ago. I was in line and I saw the total so I just drove past the window š¤·āāļø suck cost fallacy
Yep. It 80% greed and 20% if any car steps out of line especially during a rush everything is FUCKED.
( Source on the latter reasoning l: former MCDs employee. Yeah this happened several times)
Someone is going to die because of this.
Yeah, having IBS has made me aware thereās no escape. Iāll just park up and go inside
Yep years ago my husband & I driving on old truck thru taco bell drive thru & the truck stopped running at the windowā¦ it was late so nobody behind us but we had to push it thru the skinny drive thru lol embarrassing ! No power steering
Ive almost never seen a drive thru like this. You gotta check before you exit, because cars who are going to park on that side might be there, or cars who took.the entrance that makes you need to drive around to enter the drive thru may be there. The only drive thru I can think of that is like this is Dairy Queen. Cookout let’s you leave. Pals let’s you leave. Mcdonalds let’s you leave. Burger King, Taco Bell, Bojangles…..they all let you leave.
This actually has happened to me twice recently. I was doing drive through and only noticed that I had no wallet after I had already ordered.
I mean it’s not like you are stuck stuck. The cars in front of you usually leave within a couple of minutes.
It can be humiliating to wait a few minutes when you know you can’t pay, especially if they already started making your food, but it’s not like they straight up won’t let you leave or anything.
I had a hilariously unreliable Volvo 940 a few years ago. My ownership of it coincided with a love of Oreo McFlurys.
That big blue bastard broke down on 2 separate occasions in the drive thru. Nothing as humbling as pushing a Swedish car up to window 2.
Just yesterday, we were bullshitting with a bunch of new hires. One of these guys is pretty rough around the edges and is telling prison stories and random wild stuff. And he said he never goes through drive-throughs for exactly this reason, and mentioned that if he had been looking to target someone, this was his favorite way to do it.
I think everyone knows this, but theyād still rather go through the drive thru so they donāt have to get out of their cars.
The fast food places build like this intentionally and it drives me crazy. Chick-fil-A is famous for this.
Not nearly as bad as the car wash
I realized this once when I drove into one and realized that I didnāt have my wallet. It totally sucked.
Sure there is. I watched a woman get out of the driver seat and run away. Luckily we had already got our food and parked, good entertainment for stoned munchies.
I escapedā¦I ordered a large take out order then realized I left my wallet at home ā¦ embarrassment raging I exited stage left . Drove over a curb to get away š
I leave space to jump a curb and keep a firearm within reaching distance, roll up the window etc.
I was once stuck in a taco bell drive thru for nearly 1 hr. When I got to the part to take my order I found out tgey discontinued my items and I did not order. I was stuck for nearly and hour because there was no out back then and I had to sit there the entire time. I of course called corporate but never heard anything.
There was a place years ago where they put the drive through right against a wooden fence and the way through was so tiny you were lucky if you didnāt scrape your car.
I always thought about how if I needed out there was absolutely no way but forward couldnāt even back out with the angle
Yeah or the dreaded car wash line
Iāve have drove up a few times and if they didnāt have what I wanted Iād just keep driving through, but some places have a way to just turn off as soon as the car above you pulls up a bit
Honestly this is one reason I almost never go through drive thrus. Yet people seem not only ok with situations like this but flock to them and canāt seem to get enough. I feel like if there were a road with a sign that said āyouāre going to be trapped here until you get to the other side and itās going to move very, very, slowlyā people would pay money for it