Reminds me of the last time I was in Texas and somebody called the cops on me because I didn't have a car
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.
That is insane
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).
I genuinely thought this was a joke, fake or satire.
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)
No.
stands in drive through
Get absolutely fucked and then give me my God damn meds.
Also, stop violating the ADA.
Highly illegal.
Thanks.
So a bicycle would be fine
They usually don't like bikes either, not sure why this one is different.
Maybe because of some kind of a law that says that you have to allow vehicles through, idk?
(At least where I live, if a bike is on the road, it's a vehicle, if it's on a bike path, it's a bike)
I've been to many places where they close the interior and only do drive thru.
Sometimes they will be completely ok with you just walking through the drive thru on foot.
Almost always any other cars that show up will have people inside who will act terrified, like you are completely insane and may at any moment attack them.
Even though they're the ones that just almost ran you over.
How the fuck is this acceptable?
It is not. Welcome to the fossil fuel dystopia.
I don't like it here.
This is what happens when a society agrees that to be part of it you need a car.
They did this with smartphones too
We used to order drive through on our skateboards.
Recently I walked to a drive through, and they refused service because I didn't have a car at the time. (Their inside was closed).
Guess I know where never to eat again.
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.
Oh yeah they're just waiting for their shift to end.
But overall, I'd rather have my statistic be somewhere that doesn't have a drive thru in the first place.
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.
I would 100% stand in the drive through and hold up traffic till they gave me my prescription.
Places that require a car for the drive thru are just leaving money on the table. I never understood that.
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 think another part of it is they dont want "undesirables" entering the store. In my area the main entrance on the main road to a drug store is never open it is always locked. There 5 or 6 cashiers/checks outs on that side of the store that sit empty because they can't manage security for 2 entrances. Instead the rear, car parking lot entrance is the only option. The rear entrance has only 1 cashier
If you walk to the store from the south you literally have to walk nearly an extra block to get all the way around to the back of the store. The same goes for a small mall nearby, some of the entrances are locked for just no reason at all which adds a lot to travel time, especially if you have mobility issues.
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.
Wealthier people are by far the most difficult customers. They think they're entitled to everything because they're "rich" and "above" wage slaves, so they get pissy and aggressive the moment something doesn't go their way (and sometimes they'll just make a ruckus for fun). Source: I worked in a few fast food restaurants in the south before
It was crazy for me working at a mexican restaurant and the only people who got argumentative over the $13 for a burrito with just 4 oz of meat (total rip-off) were the ones who could definitely afford it, while the poorer people just accepted it. And the wealthy people always came in again (usually regulars) and expected it to be more every time.
I think I already have trouble understanding why a pharmacy has the need for a drive through
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.
I hate this community because my instinct to most posts is to downvote until I remember the OP is laughing at it, not with it. I guess that's where the 10 downvotes come from.
Why do you need a car to use the drive through?
Wouldn't that be discrimination?
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.
So they basically saying you should buy a car if you want some meds, or at the very least rent one.
They should put a courtesy tricycle beside the entrance.
I'd pretend to be driving an invisible car.
I used a bicycle in a Walgreens pharmacy drive though for the whole summer, and then one day a manager told me they won't serve me there anymore because of "safety reasons".
What they meant was for their safety, from liability, like if a car hit me.
I don't use Walgreens for prescriptions anymore.
If you have to close one, why not the drive through? If you make people come in, they might remember they need to buy something else
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.
That would piss
underuber drivers off pretty good.For real: if you don't have a car or bike, just tank your Uber
social credit scorerating.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.
one time i walked to a wendy’s at 1 am when it was snowing because it was the only place open at the time. when i got there i found out only the drive through was open. so naturally, i walked through the drive through. they told me they wouldn’t serve me unless i was in a car.
I think it’s insane, but not carbrained. They literally included bikes specifically
Motorcycles count as carbrained. Carbrain splattered all over the road but still.
im just going to walk up to the window with a sign that says "this is a car"
lol gotta be a prank
Edit: because I refuse to believe we’ve fallen this far (it’s sad)
Edit2: Fuck cars
Closing the shop but handing out meds through the drive-up portal could be because a single person can do it safe-ish-ly, but they can't monitor the whole store as well. Not letting pedestrians in the drive thru is probably insurance not wanting to pay out if someone gets hit.
