Don't get in the take-out line until you know what you want

[taterguy]

I'm a busy man.

I don't have time for you indecisive fucks to study the goddamn menu while my meter is running.

Look it up online before you go.

Thank you in advance for your cooperation.

[leftyohiolib]

1. amen to that. sometimes i get stuck behind someone who, it seems, has never seen a drive thru

but god help you if you go around them they act as if you just cut in line. there have actually been shootings here in cleveland over drive-thru line jumping

[rug]

2. You look stunning in white.

[taterguy]

3. I wish we had 1,000 more like him

[rug]

4. He's been blocked from both the Cooking & Baking and the Peacemaking and Community Groups.

[taterguy]

5. What sort of fascist would block the Soup Nazi?

[rug]

8. There were some nasty exchanges about broccoli stems.

When the Peacemaking Group tried to intervene everyone unanimously cast asparagus at them. I left for the Wyoming Group before it got any uglier.

[taterguy]

24. You know what's nasty?

Broccoli stems, that's what.

[Chan790]

28. Is the Wyo. forum the loniest place on DU?

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I know Wyoming is conservative, but I was shocked to learn that there was anyplace in the US that desolate. Big state, very small population.

I was watching a TV show once, some sort of documentary-reality thing (I don't recall what, the following story was the only memorable thing about it; possibly some sort of travel show?), anyways it was something where they were traveling in a camper...and in one episode they broke down on the side of the interstate in Wyoming. It's April or May and it's like barely 50'F about 2 or 3 in the afternoon, they realize they've got no cell-signal, they don't remember seeing civilization or any other cars lately so they decide to huddle-down and wait for someone to come by...4 hours later they see the next car. That shocked me. I've never lived outside the major metropoli of the Eastern seaboard except going to summer on my grandparents farms growing up...I didn't know that there was anyplace in America one could be that isolated.

So I ask, if Wyoming is conservative and it has a population-density to rival the outer steppes of Mongolia, does that make its' DU forum the loneliest place on DU?

[rug]

33. It is. I drop in from time to time for the peace and quiet.

[GentryDixon]

46. The town I was born

in has about 80 people. Far from the freeway, but when you are raised in the West you think nothing of traveling hours to get where you need to go.

I am partial to Wyoming. The beauty of the Tetons, the Wind River Range (think Loius L'amour), to the desert grasslands where I was born and the pronghorns outnumber the people.

[taterguy]

7. There's a time and place for everything

And when I'm hungry, it's not the time or the place to make me wait.

[OriginalGeek]

37. waaaaaat?

Not community-minded?

Hell, I consider moving slow dumbasses from the drive through lane to be doing the Lord's work. Give that man a medal!

[OriginalGeek]

49. Are you serious?

I honestly can't tell.

You might be getting me good.



Me? I'm just having fun in a joke thread in the DU Lounge. If that ain't what you're doing then I'm sorry shit has got you down today and I hope whatever it is clears up.

IF that IS what you are doing, then Kudos! You got me good!

[snagglepuss]

75. "Doing the Lord's work"

[Kali]

9. not a bad idea

with the usual places I go I know what I want but occasionally hitting an unfamiliar junk-food stand leaves me doing the 'durrrr' trying to figure out the menu

BECAUSE THEY CAN'T JUST LIST THE FUCKING SANDWICHES, IT ALL HAS TO INCLUDE THE STUPID GIANT SIZE COMBO MEALS AND OTHER ASSORTED RANDOM GRAPHICS ALL SPLASHED IN FRONT OF YOUR FACE SO YOU WILL TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT AND ORDER NUMBER 3 (GOD KNOWS WHAT THAT IS - PROBABLY A BURGER WITH THE WRONG CONDIMENTS A TOO-LARGE ORDER OF FRIES AND FREAKING BUCKET OF CARBONATED CORN SYRUP, WHEN ALL YOU WANTED WAS A CHEESEBURGER AND A SMALL DRINK)

so yeah, check the menu first if you have a way to do so but it would be nice if the menu board was fucking legible in the first place

[taterguy]

10. Too-large order of fries?

There is no such thing.

[Kali]

19. this is a secret - and I know it will make me look insane

(among other things ) but at Mc Donalds? the small fries are better than the larger sizes

go ahead mock me try them sometime

[taterguy]

23. If you want something to stay a secret . . .

Don't post about it on a public message board.

Just a suggestion.

ps: Did you know that McDonald's was founded by two brothers: Mac and Richard.

Guess which one they named the hamburger for?

[MiddleFingerMom]

32. I'm guessing, "Let's give 'em Dick."

[siligut]

48. We have Dick's Drive-ins in Seattle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick's_Drive-In

But it isn't the same guy that started McDonalds.

[MrCoffee]

73. Dickburger?

[bluedigger]

35. It's because they get just as much salt.

[rrneck]

40. I've seen people swear

that Coke tasted better in the small bottles.

[Enrique]

58. that's the right attitude

for someone named taterguy.

[Curmudgeoness]

18. At an unfamiliar drive-thru, do what I do.

Go inside instead of getting in the drive-thru line. That way, I can stand back and read the menu at my leisure, make up my mind, then move to get in line just as a busload of the high school soccer teams comes in.

[Kali]

20. uh

the whole point of a drive thru? not getting out of my vehicle

that would require going home and changing my clothes - in which case I might as well go to a real restaurant

[Curmudgeoness]

21. LOL.........

your point is taken. But really, do us all a favor and go to a familiar drive thru when you go out in your bunny slippers and house coat!

[bluedigger]

38. What could you possibly wear out driving around that isn't suitable for a fast food restaurant?

Shirt, shoes...?

[Kali]

47. well...I am often shoeless ;-)

but I live and work on a ranch - my clothes are usually pretty trashed (not to mention living in the sticks means a lot of junky work clothes you really don't want other human beings to see you wearing AND the fact that I am a slob and inevitably when wearing a new shirt I ruin it by spilling something greasy right onto my "shelf," if you get my drift.)

[TheCruces]

68. Please I routinely have customers that look like...

they just crawled out of some desert cave they've been hibernating in for 40 years...and I work at an expensive store.

I mean, this is stuff that goes beyond just came from the ranch.

[Odin2005]

11. Oh, I hate when people do that.

I'll be in the cafe in Barnes & Noble getting a coffee and cookie and some shithead in front of me take forever deciding what to get.

[siligut]

15. And here I thought it was an Aspie thing

Mr gut does this and I just let it go thinking it is a symptom of his Aspergers . . . damn.

[quakerboy]

12. I gotta hunger and a pocket full of pennies

and I don't know what I want today. The cheeseburger sounds good, but i dont want lettuce, tomato or mustard. But then the chicken nuggets also sound tasty. But theres all those different sauces. Which sauce do you like? Can I get two? That costs extra! no, I better get a cheese burger. No lettuce, tomato, or mustard. Extra catsup. Wait.. Im being healthy. Better put that tomato and lettuce back on. And extra pickles.

99 cents? Ok. One. Two. Three. Four...

[MiddleFingerMom]

13. Easy thing for someone who just orders 'one plain dumbass' every time.

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Oh, wait -- that's not the order... that's the orderer.
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[pipi_k]

14. By the same token...

When there's nobody else in line and I stand some distance away obviously perusing the menu before going to the counter, I'd like for the person behind the counter NOT to ask me for my order.

[HopeHoops]

16. No wait, maybe I'll have the ranch dressing instead of the blue cheese with my celery sticks.

I agree. If you're going to take so fucking long, grab some wood asshole!

[pintobean]

17. Just get there before me

and there won't be a problem.

[taterguy]

70. Good thing I rarely have a craving for pintobeans

[pintobean]

71. Eat me.

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It can be done safely.

[Sanity Claws]

22. I'm with you on that

What really bugs me is when people wait on line and then finally read the menu when they get to the front of the line. Why didn't they read it while waiting? Here in NY, some places will just skip over them and go to the next person.
Tourists seem to be the biggest offenders; maybe they are too distracted to realize they should be prepared to order when they get to the front of the line.

[hobbit709]

25. You have a meter on your bicycle?

[lunatica]

26. Sounds like you gotta get your fix of artificial preservatives and surprise meat

Don't stand in the way of a customer and their fast food fix.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

27. This is why I don't buy anything at Starbucks

I don't speak "Starbucks".

If I need coffee, I can stop at a gas station.

[siligut]

29. The non-standard sizes, the prices and the attitude

Fuck specialty coffee shops and I live in Seattle, so I know. OK, when on a walk, through our only snow of the year, a stop at a coffee shop for a hot cup of chai was quite nice. However, I was with Mr. gut and he knows the ins and outs of ordering at one of those joints.

[Chan790]

30. Nobody except the employees are required to speak Starbucks.

Just ask for what you want in plain English and they'll figure it out. I once in an internal-suggestion memo suggested that we eliminate the menu boards and replace them with promos for the current seasonal products and a list of your options for beverage customization. It got some consideration.

I'm a decaf triple venti caramel nonfat extra-foam mocha. If you wanted the same thing, you could say "large decaf 3-shots of espresso extra-foamy steamed skim milk with mocha and caramel" and your barista would get it just fine.

Also, the most ordered beverage is "Coffee with room". All they're going to ask you there is "which coffee" because we brew two types of caffeinated during the morning and afternoon. You're braver than me, I wouldn't drink gas station coffee...convenience store maybe, but the gas-n-go or Shell? I think they could use that to strip nuts it's so old and strong.

I miss being a barista and coffeemaster.

[hobbit709]

31. There's 5 grades of coffee

1. Coffee
2. Java
3. Joe
4. Jamoke
5. Carbon Remover

[mikeytherat]

36. We had one labeled "Nuclear Mud."

I was on the IT staff of a huge accounting firm in the '90s, and we routinely made a triple-strength batch of coffee, which was identifiable in it's carafe with a neon-green neck (hence the nuclear mud moniker). Everyone in the office loved it, and it was the always the one emptied first.

mikey_the_rat

[nadine_mn]

53. I miss being a barista too!

I was a semi-barista, I worked at Barnes & Noble that had a Starbucks cafe, so we were all required to know how to work the cafe to cover breaks and stuff.

Learning the difference between a wet cappucino and a latte was hard, I loved making mistakes because we always got to drink them. Lots of mocha mistakes.

[Burma Jones]

72. The Pentagon's Food Court has the world's finest Starbucks

This Starbucks has a regular coffee ONLY line which moves very fast.

Oh how I wish this was the case at all Starbucks, or other Coffee Joints for that matter. It is a joy to avoid people who must have their coffee with at least six adjectives......

[av8rdave]

34. In that same vein, I have discovered there are three types of Starbucks customers

1. Those who are too stupid to understand anything but basic coffee. (That would be me). They are fast because their needs are simple.

2. The latte "experts" who know all the Pacific Northwest coffee lingo. They are fast unless the server behind the counter doesn't know the language.

3. Those who wait until it's their turn to just begin their research on what's actually in a latte/mocha/etc., and begin the agonizing decisions about what they actually want.

[ScreamingMeemie]

44. These reasons are why I drink my coffee at home.

[bluedigger]

39. For me, it's writing personal checks in the express line.

And not beginning until after you've been rung up!

[Phentex]

41. Or even

digging out your check book until everything is bagged and totaled. Wait, do you have a pen?

[bluedigger]

43. I'd get arrested.

[ScreamingMeemie]

45. Don't blame it on the person. Blame it on the stupid restaurant...

who doesn't take the time to list all the items because they think we all go there eleventy billion times a year and know their stuff. It's irritating as hell the way those menu boards read anymore.

[El Supremo]

50. The worst menu I have ever seen:

I had to let several people go ahead of me before I even started to figure it out.

[taterguy]

51. If the name on the front says Garbanzo . . .

I'm going somewhere else.

[El Supremo]

52. That's what hummus is made from...

Dummus!

[Ikonoklast]

54. I can't believe you falafel that!

[El Supremo]

61. Taterboy is just a Pita...

you know.

[taterguy]

56. That's not really a selling point

[madinmaryland]

55. Dude! Most people know what they want when they stop in at the drive thru package store...

Dumbass. Maybe you should know what you are getting before driving through.

Indecisive dumbass.

[taterguy]

57. I'm talking about take-out food, not boxes

I really don't care how long people take when they're picking up packages.

[madinmaryland]

59. You don't know what a package store is???

Dumbass.

[El Supremo]

60. I never saw a drive-through package store until I was in Ohio last year.

All state-run and closed at 5PM. What should I have expected from such a weird corrupt state that gave us THE Ohio State University, the Youngstown Mafia and stolen elections?

But John Glenn is OK.

[madinmaryland]

64. Actually, my town in Ohio was semi-dry. You could only get 3.2 beer.

There were state stores in the neighboring counties. I left a year after I turned 21 and everything in Connecticut is called "package stores". It really sucked on Sundays when we had to drive 30 miles to NY state package stores to buy a six-pack of beer.

[taterguy]

62. We call them liquor stores in my homeland

No sense in hiding what's sold there.

But this thread is about food, and if liquor is food to you then you've got a problem.

[El Supremo]

63. +1!

[TreasonousBastard]

65. I'll take all the time I want, thankyouverymuch...

and if someone behind me has a heart attack waiting, one less asshole breathing my air.

[Gold Metal Flake]

66. They say God helps those who help themselves, dickweed.

So the next time you are behind one of those sodium-encrusted joy-thieves I have two words for you. Two words mushed into one.




Burnout.

[nolabear]

67. Fine. My indecisive ass will be second lining back from your Type-A grave!

Busy that.

[Bake]

69. For real!

And it's not like this is the first time you've been to McDonald's. You KNOW what they have. Just order, dammit, and get the hell out of the way!



Bake

[MountainMama]

74. What I really hate...

is the movie snack bar or at a game. I was in a line and the lady in front of me was asking questions about the coffee and the wine like she was at the Ritz. It's not a five star restaurant! Pick the red or the white and move on!