In a drive thru how close do you get the car.... - Page 5

CrazyKittyLvr2 · ‎05-11-2013

@Lipstickdiva Yup, on phones or fretting how they look. I had one woman not move up when the line moved because she too busy fluffing her hair and putting on lipstick. It's not a beauty pageant, pay attention.

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@SeaMaiden wrote:
@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@SeaMaiden wrote:
@Still Raining wrote:
Have not been to a drive through in forever. In general you should leave enough room to be able to leave the line and/or see the rear tires. Not sure that you can block a road just to get in line.
Never go through a drive through. Do not eat or drink that junk.
@SeaMaiden. We use the drive thru at the bank. Usually for the ATM. It’s so much easier than having to park and go in the bank.
@proudlyfromNJ Oh the Bank... always go inside for all my transactions... never drive through or use ATM,s

@SeaMaiden. Good for you. You seem like an extremely cautious person. I,unfortunately, do whatever is easiest for me. That is usually sending husband to the ATM.
I can’t remember the last time I was in a bank.

CrazyDaisy · ‎03-20-2010

@Allegheny wrote:
@CrazyDaisy wrote:
I find that people who do not pull up are just plain rude. Come on how many times has a car stalled or an emergency occured while waiting in line at a drive thru. Backing traffic up, preventing people from ordering or paying for the order slows down the whole line. Pay attention and pull up.
I noticed you posted directly after me where I indicated that I was going to start leaving more space in front of my car. Until reading this post, I was one of those people right on the back bumper of the car in front of me. I just want to clarify, I am not talking about leaving so much room that it would be detrimental to those waiting behind me; but just enough that I could maneuver my car out of line.

My comment was not specifically directed at you, however if you are leaving enough space to get out of line in my opinion that is to much space between cars.

Someday, when scientists discover the center of the Universe....some people will be disappointed it is not them.

Ms tyrion2 · ‎05-08-2017

@Carmie wrote:
I leave maybe three to four feet at a drive through....a little more at the bank. Most of the people I see do as well

I sometimes pick up my granddaughter from school. Cars start arriving early and the cars in the back have to wait in line on a public highway at a stop sign in two different directions. The early birds queue up on school property.

This creates a problem and cars that are passing by and pulling into the school's drive way have to carefully go around the line of cars at the stop sign waiting for an opportunity to get in the queue.

I usually am one of the last cars on school property. I can see all of the cars in front of me ( curved driveway) and usually notice that many cars do not pull forward and leave up to three car lengths between them and the car in front of them. When a couple of cars do this, it creates more problems for those still waiting off school property on the public roads.

Last year, I left my spot in line and passed everyone on their left and found a place in the front of the line in a vacant space left by someone not pulling forward.The car that was now behind me starting honking and the woman was screaming at me. I just ignored her. It didn't help or change things. The cars continued to leave a large space between them the next day.

I just don't get this mentality and don't understand the need to hog up a couple of spaces.

Ok, so the moral to this story is to counter bad behavior with even worse behavior @Carmie ?

This forum is rife with posters bemoaning the "entitled" behavior of young people. I hope you are not one of them because your action exemplifies entitlement to me.

You didn't teach anyone a "lesson". You just indulged your pique.

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@SeaMaiden wrote:
@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@SeaMaiden wrote:
@Still Raining wrote:
Have not been to a drive through in forever. In general you should leave enough room to be able to leave the line and/or see the rear tires. Not sure that you can block a road just to get in line.
Never go through a drive through. Do not eat or drink that junk.
@SeaMaiden. We use the drive thru at the bank. Usually for the ATM. It’s so much easier than having to park and go in the bank.
@proudlyfromNJ Oh the Bank... always go inside for all my transactions... never drive through or use ATM,s
@SeaMaiden. Good for you. You seem like an extremely cautious person. I,unfortunately, do whatever is easiest for me. That is usually sending husband to the ATM.
I can’t remember the last time I was in a bank.

@proudlyfromNJ I suppose I am cautious to a point. I also only pay cash for gas...never have used a credit or debit card to pay for gas.

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@SeaMaiden. Yes, you have to be careful at gas stations. We still have attendants, don’t know if that helps or not. The one thing we never use are debit cards. The bank issued new atm cards awhile ago which is also a debit card. We had no choice, but the only place it is used is at the atm. Never in stores.

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@SeaMaiden. Yes, you have to be careful at gas stations. We still have attendants, don’t know if that helps or not. The one thing we never use are debit cards. The bank issued new atm cards awhile ago which is also a debit card. We had no choice, but the only place it is used is at the atm. Never in stores.

@proudlyfromNJ Yes. We use one credit card for all daily expenses....pay it off at the end of the month in full....debit card only for occasional withdrawals for cash. We get points for using credit card towards all kinds of free things...so it pays to use it!

proudlyfromNJ · ‎05-01-2010

@SeaMaiden wrote:
@proudlyfromNJ wrote:
@SeaMaiden. Yes, you have to be careful at gas stations. We still have attendants, don’t know if that helps or not. The one thing we never use are debit cards. The bank issued new atm cards awhile ago which is also a debit card. We had no choice, but the only place it is used is at the atm. Never in stores.
@proudlyfromNJ Yes. We use one credit card for all daily expenses....pay it off at the end of the month in full....debit card only for occasional withdrawals for cash. We get points for using credit card towards all kinds of free things...so it pays to use it!

@SeaMaiden. Same thing here with the CC. Last time we used points we got a thousand dollar credit towards the bill. Love it! Just for using the card!

Cakers3 · ‎06-17-2015

@CarmieI understand 100% what it was like to pick up our GS through the years.

That isn't the issue. The issue is by you leaving your line and actually cutting ahead you expected things to be different the next day. You posted as such. You broke a rule yourself by jumping ahead of another parent.

It didn't change and it will not.

Our time was just as important but we were there for one thing and one thing only-pick up GS. We had to wait like everyone else.

I get frustration but you have expectations that will never be met. Cutting ahead like that proved nothing, solved nothing, and I would be very hesitant to assume that a person(s) who didn't pull up were doing so on purpose.

Imagine if everyone tried to do the same thing; the parking lot would end up looking like bumper cars at an amusement park.

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