Mysterious Drive-Thru Phenomenon

[cvstrat]

Have you ever noticed that sometimes people will go through a fast food drive-thru and order food, then pull over in the parking lot and eat inside of their car? This doesn't make any sense to me. It seems like it would be easier just to go inside. Maybe they are aliens...

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

I dont know, I ordered something the other day, and found a big bag of pot in it. Strange.

 

[mpitts]

Maybe they are doing it to mess with you.

 

[Lash444]

First of all, there are lots of people who are introverts. Maybe they just don't like society as a whole. As for hte pot thing, maybe it was like that person who put the whole days worth of earnings for Burger King and mistakingly gave it to a drive thru customer thinking it was their food. Maybe he kept his stash in such a bag for lunch time kicks and then gave it to you. How big was the bag of weed, not that your story is unbelieveable but highly improbably since druggies dont usually give away anything like that on purpose so it would almost have to be a mistake. Unless there was a fast food sting and they had to ditch it quick.

 

[vi edit]

Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
I dont know, I ordered something the other day, and found a big bag of pot in it. Strange.

Oh, you must have ordered from the new Dime Bag menu.

 

[DWray]

I do this. I like to listen to the radio if I have no one to talk to at lunch. I also don't like annoying, loud mouthed kids running around due to the concept of discipline seeming to leave itself at the door of most fast food places.

 

[tm37]

I do this sometimes. I usually listen to the radio and don't want to miss what I am Listening to.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: tm37
I do this sometimes. I usually listen to the radio and don't want to miss what I am Listening to.

me too.

 

[dabuddha]

i can never eat in my car
its just too messy usually and i like to wash my hands after eating.
thats why if im alone, ill just bring a book/magazine with me

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: vi_edit

Originally posted by: Hayabusarider
I dont know, I ordered something the other day, and found a big bag of pot in it. Strange.

Oh, you must have ordered from the new Dime Bag menu.

LOL

 

[exp]

Maybe they are doing it to mess with you.

Nah, if they really wanted to mess with him they would order at the counter and then go out and eat in the car.

 

[sciencetoy]

I do that, I'm usually on business or a sales call and I have my phones and all the information in my car. I've also gone inside, ordered from the counter, used the facilities, gone back to my car to dine, and gone back in to wash up.

It's also a lot more comfortable than those cheezy plastic chairs.

If you clean up after you eat in the car, it stays clean. I don't let the kids eat in the car, though, if I can help it.

 

[Tom]

I grew up in the era of drive-ins, maybe that's why I think eating in the car is cool.

 

[CPA]

Plus it's cheaper to order through the drivethrough - no sales tax. Though, I doubt most people do it for this reason.

 

[CraigRT]

I do that all the time.
I dont go inside to eat if I am alone.

 

[StageLeft]

I did it a couple of months ago. I prefer sitting in my car with music on to sitting inside a grubby fast food joint with filthy strangers around me.

 

[loup garou]

Originally posted by: CPA
Plus it's cheaper to order through the drivethrough - no sales tax. Though, I doubt most people do it for this reason.

They charge you tax in Louisiana (hell, they'll tax you wherever they can). Is that a Texas thing? I've never noticed that before when in Texas.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: CPA
Plus it's cheaper to order through the drivethrough - no sales tax.

What state has that rule? In PA there's sales tax either way.

 

[vi edit]

"What state has that rule? In PA there's sales tax either way."

Iowa and Wisconsin both have it.

 

[guyver01]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I did it a couple of months ago. I prefer sitting in my car with music on to sitting inside a grubby fast food joint with filthy strangers around me.

ditto

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: CPA
Plus it's cheaper to order through the drivethrough - no sales tax. Though, I doubt most people do it for this reason.

No tax through the drive-thru??

That's strange. It's not like that in Utah.

Oh, and I sit and eat in my car nearly every day. I like to listen to the local sports station on the radio.

amish

 

[tarheelmm]

Originally posted by: DWray
I do this. I like to listen to the radio if I have no one to talk to at lunch. I also don't like annoying, loud mouthed kids running around due to the concept of discipline seeming to leave itself at the door of most fast food places.

Exactly

 

[feralkid]

Mysterious Drive-Thru Phenomenon







Do things easily mystify you, cvstrat?

 

[SpongeBobPalmBay]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
I did it a couple of months ago. I prefer sitting in my car with music on to sitting inside a grubby fast food joint with filthy strangers around me.

yep... summed up my thoughts perfefctly...

 

[cvstrat]

I think it's one of those things you see but never think much about. I never did it myself. Figured most people would do it to avoid being around strangers or to listen to the radio.