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re: Just had a faux pas at one of those double-car McDonald's drive throughs

Posted on 4/29/18 at 2:39 pm to
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
106092 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 2:39 pm to
This wouldn't happen at Sonic. Or if it did, there would be a means of conflict resolution.
Posted by StupidBinder
Jawja
Member since Oct 2017
6392 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 2:43 pm to
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So should I let that person in front of me to continue the alternating pattern? Or should I keep following the car in front of me since I finished ordering before the person in the other lane?




In this instance, you follow the car in front of you and the car in the other lane should allow you to go.

Drive thrus with two lanes really ought to attach a name/order number to the order (like chick fil a) just in case things like this happen, but this type of situation is easily avoided if customers had better awareness of what was going on around them.
Posted by TigerStripes06
SWLA
Member since Sep 2006
30032 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 3:01 pm to
This just proves my theory that those double drive thrus At McDonald’s are a bad idea. The average person that eats at McDonald’s is no where near capable of grasping that concept.
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
Ponchatoula
Member since Aug 2004
50038 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 4:06 pm to
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I don’t have any epic tales from visits to McDonald’s.


I do. many moon's ago I was in Hammond one night. I was headed home and realized I hadn't eaten yet. I stopped at the McDonald's that in from of the Lowe's on hwy 190. I went inside and ordered and was waiting. Apparently this young worker who was 18-20 years old was arguing with the manager a woman in her late 30's maybe early 40's. This girl just kept yapping at this manager and cursing her. The manager was taking a care of a order and moving about and this young girl kept running her head. Finally this girl made the mistake of putting her finger in the managers face and pushing her. The manager proceeded to beat the shite out of this girl. I will let you decide what the demographics of the women were.
Posted by PiscesTiger
Concrete, WA
Member since Feb 2004
53696 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 4:07 pm to
Stupid far Eastern Asian workers!
Posted by fishfighter
RIP
Member since Apr 2008
40026 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 4:22 pm to
You are one of those assholes that don't thing WTF is going around them at all time. Hate assholes like you that stay on the cell phone. So FU.
Posted by boutgrfanrx
Woodstock,GA
Member since Dec 2012
300 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 4:24 pm to
Small water
Posted by Rza32
Member since Nov 2008
4685 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 4:47 pm to
She is kind of right. There is an understood process and u screwed it up.
Posted by MrLSU
Yellowstone, Val d'isere
Member since Jan 2004
30073 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 5:23 pm to
You should have told her you were in the “white” lane and had priority.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
82414 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 6:04 pm to
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chik-fil-a will ask for your order name, my son and I enjoy throwing something random out like Billy Joe or Bobby Sue




Not today they won't.
Posted by rantfan
new iberia la
Member since Nov 2012
14110 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 6:12 pm to
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. In fact, I had ordered a small water


Is McDonald's tap water better than any other place?
Posted by Hangit
The Green Swamp
Member since Aug 2014
47729 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 7:25 pm to
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I never know what the proper etiquette is is when the car in front of me orders and pulls up, and then I order and complete my order before the car in the other lane finishes. So it would normally have been their turn, but I finished my order first.


Whoever completes their order first rolls. The person that got there first and is asking what chicken nuggets taste like, if they are good, what kind of sauce is available, what's on a Big Mac, etc., can sit in line behind the guy that drives up, says he wants a number 3, medium, with a Coke, then pulls forward.
Posted by tiger chaser
Birmingham Ala
Member since Feb 2008
7721 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 8:52 pm to
You should have paid for her order
Posted by lsursb
Baton Rouge
Member since Jan 2004
12369 posts
Posted on 4/29/18 at 9:07 pm to
Saw 2 big gals both get out of their cars and proceed to curse and scream at each other at the McDonalds on Jefferson by Drusilla because one drove past a line of cars waiting to split into the 2 lines to place their order.
This post was edited on 4/29/18 at 9:09 pm
Posted by PrimeTime Money
Houston, Texas, USA
Member since Nov 2012
28116 posts
Posted on 4/30/18 at 8:40 am to
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In this instance, you follow the car in front of you and the car in the other lane should allow you to go.
That’s what I do, but I was never sure if this was right. There are no signs or anything. They just built these double drive thrus and expected people to just deal with it without an explanation.
Posted by ConfusedHawgInMO
Member since Apr 2014
3578 posts
Posted on 4/30/18 at 8:54 am to
They don't expect you alternate, you pull forward when you can. They note what the order placer is driving, that way you get your order.
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
103884 posts
Posted on 4/30/18 at 9:01 am to
How fat are you?
Posted by Nutriaitch
Montegut
Member since Apr 2008
11021 posts
Posted on 4/30/18 at 9:25 am to
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They just built these double drive thrus and expected people to just deal with it without an explanation


they don’t explain it to they employees either.

i rolled up to the window once and the lady looked at me and in all seriousness asks “what vehicle were you in?”

i said “well i WAS in that maroon KIA 3 cats back, but was in a hurry so i hopped in this truck instead”

she looked confused like she almost believed me for a moment.
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