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10-17-2019, 08:10 AM #1
Banning of the Drive Thru. It's a thing.
First I've heard of this:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cities-...bon-emissions/
Proponents claim decreasing drive-thru windows will help combat obesity, improve walkability and push back on pollution.
"Cities ban new drive-thrus to fight climate change"
"Proponents claim decreasing drive-thru windows will help combat obesity, improve walkability and push back on pollution."
I don't really care why they're doing it, but I support this ban. Mostly b/c I hate that people are so lazy they'd rather wait 10 minutes in a car line than get out of their car and that same cup of coffee in under 5.
Thoughts?It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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10-17-2019, 08:21 AM #2
I mostly support it. However I did have an experience in CA when my kid was 2.5 and sound asleep in the car. I needed cash from an ATM for the babysitter and there were zero drive through. I had to wake her up, get her out, carry her, put her back, etc. It screwed up her sleep which of course screwed up our day. Of course we were there for a wedding, so things were fuct already. I ended up doing the liquor shopping with her asleep in one arm/shoulder and pushing a shopping cart full of booze. Some idiots just had to make comments. Fortunately she was a small kid at that age. I would have loved a drive through liquor store at that moment. 1st world problem.
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10-17-2019, 08:21 AM #3
Delivery and ordering ahead apps make it a non issue.
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10-17-2019, 08:23 AM #4
Yup, the folks who are really inconvenienced are the grubhub drivers...
Brandine: Now Cletus, if I catch you with pig lipstick on your collar one more time you ain't gonna be allowed to sleep in the barn no more!
Cletus: Duly noted.
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10-17-2019, 08:23 AM #5
Also, there will be some pushback from mobility impaired folks. I can see a tech solution for that though.
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10-17-2019, 08:27 AM #6
First they ban drive through liquor stores. Now this.
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10-17-2019, 08:45 AM #7Galibier Designcrafting technology in service of music
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10-17-2019, 09:10 AM #8It makes perfect sense...until you think about it.
I suspect there's logic behind the madness, but I'm too dumb to see it.
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10-17-2019, 10:47 AM #9
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10-17-2019, 10:53 AM #10
Would the drive thru stage a comeback when cars are electric and have no emissions?
I think most of the business would simply get pushed to order ahead apps and curbside pick up. Which is necessary for older folks and mobility impaired people regardless.
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10-17-2019, 11:07 AM #11Funky But Chic
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They always fuck you at the drive-thru.
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10-17-2019, 11:09 AM #12
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10-17-2019, 11:21 AM #13
I seldom go to fast food restaurants, as I prefer to have an orderly dinner on a proper table with waitstaff and linen tablecloths, but you say some people of low culinary standards will drive up to a window, receive food and eat in their vehicle? Have you heathens ever tried to get the hamburger smell out of a Bentley?
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10-17-2019, 11:27 AM #14
Slight thread drift, but it reminds me of this classic John Mulaney bit
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10-17-2019, 11:38 AM #15
Holy fuck I go stuck behind one of them in the drive thru last week. Seemed to take forever at the order speaker.. then when they got to the first pay window they were shuttling cash in and receipts out for like 8 god damned orders... Then up at the food window 8 bags shuved out to the car.. sat there for several minutes then two bags pushed back in the window, guess they screwed up those two.. Holy shit!
Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-17-2019, 11:46 AM #16
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10-17-2019, 12:04 PM #17
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10-17-2019, 12:10 PM #18Funky But Chic
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Huh, I thought that was Stuttgart.
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10-17-2019, 12:11 PM #19"timberridge is terminally vapid" -- a fortune cookie in Yueyang
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10-17-2019, 12:15 PM #20
Would you like fries with your order, Sir?
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10-17-2019, 12:43 PM #21Registered User
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10-17-2019, 12:58 PM #22
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10-17-2019, 01:07 PM #23Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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10-17-2019, 01:38 PM #24
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10-17-2019, 01:54 PM #25Go that way really REALLY fast. If something gets in your way, TURN!
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