It truly is car brain, including the car brain belief that drive thru is always faster.
As a former drive thru worker, I can tell you that that is untrue, but the drive thru chuds were pretty much definitively more aggressive, more obnoxious, and more likely to further delay the transaction by being boomer assholes and inspecting their food and making petty demands if anything is even slightly out of place (or if they’re fishing for a refund and lying).
Hey, also former drive thru worker! Unless drive thru was pretty much empty it was almost always guaranteed to be a longer wait. Exact same experience as you, people took longer getting situated in their cars slowing everyone else down
And god help me how in the living hell do you wait for over 10 minutes in a freaking drive thru only to get to the menu and say “uhmmmm what do I waaaant…”. Ffs it’s a MCDONALDS. You’re going to order the number 3 and a diet coke like you do all the time Sharon.
And god help me how in the living hell do you wait for over 10 minutes in a freaking drive thru only to get to the menu and say “uhmmmm what do I waaaant…”
My most common and hated experience every day in drive thru:
It truly is car brain, including the car brain belief that drive thru is always faster.
As a former drive thru worker, I can tell you that that is untrue, but the drive thru chuds were pretty much definitively more aggressive, more obnoxious, and more likely to further delay the transaction by being boomer assholes and inspecting their food and making petty demands if anything is even slightly out of place (or if they’re fishing for a refund and lying).
Hey, also former drive thru worker! Unless drive thru was pretty much empty it was almost always guaranteed to be a longer wait. Exact same experience as you, people took longer getting situated in their cars slowing everyone else down
And god help me how in the living hell do you wait for over 10 minutes in a freaking drive thru only to get to the menu and say “uhmmmm what do I waaaant…”. Ffs it’s a MCDONALDS. You’re going to order the number 3 and a diet coke like you do all the time Sharon.
My most common and hated experience every day in drive thru:
bing
static
recorded pitch starts
minute or two passes, horns honking