posted on December 16, 2000 07:18:35 AM new
1.Drive through the drive thru in reverse and let your passenger order.
2.Ask prices of everything on the menu then order something that you did not ask the price for.
3.Pretend like your window is broken. Tell the employee this. Order with your door open, pay with your door open. Roll down window and take food through the window.
4.Go to McDonalds and demand a big breakfast at 11:30 at night. Put up a fight.
5.Pay for a large order in pennies and nickels unwrapped.
6.Order in another language. Be careful what neighborhood you are in.
7.When asked if they can take your order, tell them you are just window shopping and drive on.
8.Laugh sadistically when asked if you would like ketchup.
9.Ask how they fit into that little box.
10.If they make you wait, make them wait when they come back on.
11.Demand to speak to the manager. When he comes on, complain that you did not like the way the employee said "May I take your order?"
12.When asked if they can take your order say "No, why can't I take yours?"
13.If they ask you to wait, order anyway and keep doing it till they yell at you.
14.Pretend like your car broke down. Ask for assistance in moving it. When they come out, drive away.
15.Tell them you have to use the bathroom.
16.Order a cup of water and two napkins. That's it.
17.Don't order when they come on. Just sit there. If a line forms behind you, get out of the car and cause a scene.
18.When they hand you your food, hand them a bag back with all the trash from your car in it.
19.Just stare at them when you pay and get your food. Don't break your stare.
20.Honk your horn the whole way through the line.
21.When they say may I help you, respond with, no I am beyond help.
posted on December 16, 2000 10:43:58 AM new
22. Turn your radio up REAL LOUD so that neither the order taker or the customer can hear a thing! (if it's loud enough you can mess up about 10 orders!)
23. WALK thru...all the while muttering about discrimination against those who don't have cars or who can't drive.
24. Pack the car/van/truck with kids & tell the employee at the window to just throw the food into the back & be careful they don't get bitten.
25. Drive up to the window & hand the fast food employee your bank withdraw slip.
posted on December 16, 2000 12:04:48 PM new
Sorry but this would violate a sacred rule of mine. Never mess with someone who has my food where I can't see it. Could give a whole new meaning to "special sauce".
posted on December 18, 2000 07:48:29 AM new
True drive through story: Along with their burgers, two guys order a large water,no ice. Before taking the food, they ask the teller to remove the water from the bag. Backing up, they switch on the wipers and holler, "Now throw it at the windshield." Seems they had run out of washer fluid.
Serendipity & Peace...
posted on December 18, 2000 07:57:59 AM new
helnjoe - when I read the title of this thread I thought I was going to open it to find various ideas of how a person may pass the time while waiting in a drive through line. My immediate thought was "kegels?" This exercise is always presented "you can do them anywhere".
It amused me, so I posted it.
Also, I cannot remember who it was but there was an ad campaign for someone or another recently who showed people waiting in a line (PO I think it was). Anyway - the people had various "thought bubbles" over their heads. "That clerk is cute" over some guy for example. One of the women was "doing kegels".
posted on December 18, 2000 08:04:30 AM new
VM: I had to laugh at your comment! That's what I thought you meant. But I wonder how many people know what kegels are.
Isn't there a Jewish dish made with noodles that sounds almost the same?
At that point I wasn't sure what direction we were going in.
posted on December 18, 2000 08:17:18 AM new helnjoe
Kegels are an exercise that strengthen the pelvic floor. They are performed by contracting vaginal muscles repeatedly and women are advised to do them at any opportunity. Purpose is to aid in childbirth, also to enhance sex and help lower back problems.
I do them in the PO and also at traffic lights. I ran down cement stairs and out of a burning building carrying both of my children right after I had the 2nd and before my body had realigned. Injury resulted and kegels were prescribed.
posted on December 18, 2000 08:24:44 AM new
VM: LOL! Didn't know they help with back problems. This is killing me! Just the thought of them makes me want to clutch. With all the doctors I've been to for my back not one mentioned doings these.
Now I have to thank you for Yahoo, PayDirect, and a better back!
posted on December 18, 2000 08:42:02 AM new
helnjoe - I got this straight from the physical therapist. You MUST strengthen the pelvic floor to support the back or you are a walking house of cards.
I would not have been injured carrying my children if my body had not just had a baby. As it was, everything was loosey goosey and as I slammed into these steps with all this weight (mine from the pregnancy, plus a 40 pound child, plus the baby in his carseat...) well you get the picture. Devastating.
You know how they tell you to strengthen your legs to support the back? This is the less obvious necessity but you can see how it makes sense. The pelvic floor is the center of everything.
posted on December 18, 2000 06:37:58 PM new
This is a true story!
Once my father and I were going through a drive through. You know how fast food drive throughs have those horrible loudpseakers, and sometimes you can't understand a darn thing the workers are saying? Well, I don't know what possessed him to do it, but dad decided to be funny and turn the tables on them. When they asked for his order, he leans over and yells: "Arfle barfle mungle boogle flah!"
There was a brief pause and then the worker on the other end said: "A cheeseburger with no pickle. Will that be all, sir?"
posted on December 19, 2000 02:50:24 AM new
eyeguy6 - LOL @ your, "Never mess with someone who has my food where I can't see it."
Years ago while watching the Merv Griffin Show, he shared with a guest that he'd eaten somewhere and although he'd ordered his steak "well" it came "rare". He just couldn't eat a piece of rare meat. Guest told him he should have sent it back. He told guest he'd never do that, as he'd worked as a waiter (while struggling) and he knew what they did to the food people sent back to the kitchen. I never forgot that....and I never send anything back.
posted on December 19, 2000 06:53:48 AM new
It was not a house, it was an office building and we were in the pediatrician's office on the 2nd floor. We were in the inner office waiting and I did not hear an alarm until someone opened the door to tell us to get the hell out of there.
I did really good, I did not panic at all, but this was summer and I was wearing THONGS. The steps I had to go down were cement and had spaces between them. They were decorative, like platforms with little rocks. I did not want to catch the lip of a sandal and trip and fall so I was running with restraint if that makes sense. I could not see my feet with all the load, and could not see a fire, but I could smell it and also chemicals and the building was already emptied so it was very frightening. Like being the last one out. The office was at the very end of a long corridor and we were the only people running. The two people in the office were behind be I suppose, but to hell with them - I was on a tear with my kids and not looking back at the time.
Anyway when I got down the stairs (two stretches with a landing 1/2 way) to the 1st floor lobby I saw firemen and they were calm (as it turned out there were 4 trucks outside - the fire house is only about 1/3 a mile away) and so it turned out that the danger was not imminent. The fire was on the 6th floor and so the smoke going up was not thick or anything where I was at. I went out the front door and saw hundreds of people mulling around and that was that, but I sure screwed up my body.
We went home and when I unloaded the baby I found the thermometer under his arm. It was surreal. Anyway, my baby who is fine, had all kinds of bizarre happening first 6 months. His platelets dropped for no reason once and he was covered with dots which were actually burst blood vessels. Helllllo.................!
This was a one time event and causes no lasting effect. Very rare.
Anyway, he survived everything, all of us did and he is so sweet.
My daughter is spicy, so it is a nice mix.
