Car brain energy.

That's why I typically bring 2 cars when I go to Texas.

I think it says a lot about Texas that you aren't the first person who told me they had the cops called on them for not having a car there.
My cousin went there as a foreign exchange student, and she lived a mile away from the town center. So she walked, cause it's less than 20 minutes.
Then a cop car stopped beside her. First they were friendly, asking if her car broke down. But when she said she doesn't have a car, and is walking, they actually took her in for questioning.

Crime: Being in public while poor.

In drive through?

Fred Flintstone the place up.

I know it's more expensive but this is why I always use the Uber black option.

I dunno. I get plenty of drugs from Uber drivers and there's less paperwork and they deliver them right to me. . It's not a terrible alternative really.

Insane*

*applies to america only, may have severe side effects such as latent brain problems, diminished capacity for thinking and lethargic behavior (amongst other symptoms).

North American in a nutshell

Why can't the European mind comprehend hell?

We do have drive-through restaurants and even some drive-in supermarkets in the center of cities. I just missed my train yesterday because the bus got stuck in traffic. I really hate how car-brained my country is (honorable mentions to exceptions: Hradec Králové, Pardubice and the other few towns in the Elbe lowland that have embraced bike infrastructure to about the standards of an average German town)

I don't understand why just walking up is apparently not fine

They usually don't like bikes either, not sure why this one is different.

It is not. Welcome to the fossil fuel dystopia.

This is what happens when a society agrees that to be part of it you need a car.

I promise that the workers don't give a shit. They're not paid enough to care.

But they're being recorded 24/7 and if management sees them serving people who do not have cars in the drive thru, it'll be someone's ass.

Back in the day, cameras pretty much only existed for the cash register and entry/exit areas. Now, they need to put in laws to keep the companies from installing cameras in bathrooms... That shit is fucking everywhere.

The corpos at the top are mandating that anyone in the drive thru must meet a minimum requirement of a "vehicle" which cars and bikes are (at least in most places), but you, on foot, are not.

This is just them trying to avoid getting sued because you were standing in the drive thru waiting for food and some inattentive fuck pulls in after you've ordered and runs you down. It's really fucking stupid.

The idea that I think they were originally thinking is that people who are walking should go inside where they are reasonably safe from being run over to order/pick up/eat, then they started to keep the drive thru open later than the dining area, and here we are.

I get that they need to clean and whatnot, so they want to close the dining area, and that's fine, but close the dining area and leave the counter open so people can walk in and get take out FFS. It's basically just one strip of flooring that customers will walk into and out from while the seating area is closed, so not a big deal to run a mop over it and go home after closing time.

But nobody said corpos made sense.

Did this at a place near my old work. I drove 50 miles to work, so when on break I'd walk. They had the walk up closed one day, and told me I couldn't go through the drive through. So I ate at the place next door every Friday instead. (The rest of the week I brought food). But I liked to live it up on Friday, haha. Not sure why it was closed that one day... But they lost my service every week following because of it

Same thing happened to me at a Maccas in perth, Australia... On a bicycle.

Does someone have a definitive answer to this? Do they not want people eating in the parking lot?

They’re really annoying since they only do prescriptions. I suppose that’s useful sometimes but so is regular stuff. It seems like such a small part of their business

For example, one time my toddler was sick and my wife was out of town. I needed some Pedialyte and I forget what over the counter medicine, and it’s not like I could leave the little guy. I pull up in a cloud of stench with him vomiting out both ends, and begged them to let me buy stuff in the drive through. But nope, I had to take that into the store

Walgreens pharmacy line is around the store consistently where I'm at

I'll spell it out.

WALMART

but.... It does make sense. The elderly that can easily drive but not so easily walk benefit immensely. CVS and Walgreens in the US also have drive thrus usually.

I have my mother's prescriptions delivered by her pharmacy, as it's 100% USPS, but we have the Walmart as a backup if she needs something asap.

I love the drive through when my sick toddler has fallen asleep in the car on the way from the doctor's to the pharmacy.

This is entirely a corpo policy to limit liability. The idea, as far as I understand it, is that they want to prevent people from standing in the drive thru since that carries the risk of them being hit/injured/harmed while waiting in the line.

Its literally a problem because corpos don't want to get sued for an idiot driver gassing their way through a drive thru and mowing someone down.

Honestly, given how lawsuit happy many people are, I'm not terribly surprised. What does surprise me though, is that they don't have a walk-up window in a pedestrian safe area. I guess the logic is that the pedestrians can just go inside, but when the drive thru is open late, after the dining/walk in area closes, you end up with stupid situations like the OP.

I hate corpos.

I'd assume they want to discriminate against people who are too poor to have cars because they think those people are more likely to be difficult customers, and since most people have cars they don't lose much business by doing this.

Is there a thought to not subscribe to subs where your intent is to downvote everything? Or is this every lemming mission?

Yes, but it's not illegal discrimination.
Pedestrians aren't a protected group, and neither are poor people.

Yeah, I can’t imagine this would stand up to an ADA claim in the US. Forcing a person who can’t drive due to a disability to pay an extra fee to pick up medication in a vehicle instead of just fucking handing it to them is stupid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrlxU9kx_m0

Because let's say you're the only person who showed up to work today. Trying to fill prescriptions puts your back to the rest of the store, maybe even takes you behind shelves. Makes it easy for you to get held up. Also shoplifting but I'm more concerned about your safety. With the drive through, you can give desperate sick people their prescriptions, and people who want other stuff can get it elsewhere.

Because opening up the entire interior of the store requires staffing and security... Having a service window with heavy glass and a two way box requires one person who does not need to be able to take care of themselves security wise.

I've known enough people that would take their business elsewhere if this one didn't have a drive thru. They think they are saving time by using the drive thru even when the other location is an additonal 10 minutes of driving away.

Better than over them, I suppose.

For real: if you don't have a car or bike, just tank your Uber social credit score rating.

I mean, I don't even think an Uber driver would accept that, there isn't a 'go through the drive through' option, and if you tricked the Uber driver they would just not do it.

Yup, minimum charge with a relatively long ride time. Quickest way to get a cancellation from a driver.

Motorcycles count as carbrained. Carbrain splattered all over the road but still.

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