You know what I never tried? Ordering at a drive-through. I never even sat next to a person ordering at a drive-through, so I’m completely ignorant of the process.
I want to try but I’m too intimidated. Maybe I should seek a YouTube video to learn the process.
You don’t wanna know what they do to people who get the procedure wrong…. You just don’t. want. to. know.
(just kidding……. or am I?)
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Can you imagine what will happen if I’m prevented from getting my food immediately? That will not be pretty.
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I intensely dislike drive through anything.
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I’m glad to know that I’m not alone in this!
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I have a deeply irrational fear that I will hit the speaker with my car or something, and be terribly humiliated and have to pay vast amounts of money to replace it. Consequently, in the infrequent occasions when I do use a drive-through anyway, I end up too far away from the window to reach and have to get out of the car. Defeats the damned purpose. And I grew up in the Midwest. Growing up, we went to the drive-though more often than we went to church.
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Well, you see? Now I’m discovering that one has to be close enough to the window and I didn’t even consider this possibility. Maybe I should ask somebody local to give me classes.
Plus I still haven’t dared to go to a car wash on my own because I’m afraid that the process will defeat me.
Being an immigrant is hard.
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“And I grew up in the Midwest. Growing up, we went to the drive-though more often than we went to church.”
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Haha, I do need to confess this. A decade ago when I was, let’s say, not as healthy (physically and psychologically), I was embarrassed at the amount of food I ordered at a drive-thru that I ordered two drinks on top of that, to make him think I was ordering for two people.
TRICKED YOU, UNKNOWN DEL TACO EMPLOYEE. THAT WAS ALL FOR ME, MUAHAHA!
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No judgment here. Especially since I always get two pairs of chopsticks when I get takeout sushi for the exact same reason. 🙂
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Haha, good to hear that, but bingeing on sushi sounds so much more dignified than inhaling those paint-a-jackson-pollock-on-the-toilet-bowl-30-minutes-later shitty ass del taco burritos.
What was I thinking?
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“inhaling those paint-a-jackson-pollock-on-the-toilet-bowl-30-minutes-later shitty ass del taco burritos.”
My sister always orders the family-size ceviche at the Peruvian restaurant and proudly gobbles it down in front of the waiters who keep looking at the door, waiting for a family to join her. I need to work on getting that sense of entitlement for myself because it’s very healthy. Gosh, I remember how, as a teenager, I had to ask her to buy feminine hygiene products for me because I was too embarrassed. She was all of 8 or 9 and she did it with the panache I was not capable of in spite of the age difference.
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The trick with drive-ins is to make sure you visit one with a really bad speaker or on a rainy night. That adds a level of drama about what you actually get.
With car washes, you just have to make sure to leave at least one window down so the interior gets cleaned. (Most people I know have done that at least once — but only once.)
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Vic, you’ve got to be careful about making these jokes around a literal – minded autistic. I almost took the car window part seriously. 🙂
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When I think about a fast food drive through, I always think about the scene in the movie American Beauty where the husband who has quit his middle class job and is working at a fast food restaurant accidentally meets his wife who is having an affair with another man while he is staffing the drive through window.
I was having one of my rare breakfasts at McDonalds the day before you posted this and looking at the car next to me saw the familiar yellow and blue Ukrainian colors wrapped around the rear view mirror. Not surprising considering that the Ukrainian consulate is about a block east of where I live and there are lots of east Europeans living in the area.
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