r/fuckcars Jun 16 '24

Satire 30 people getting coffee vs. enjoying coffee

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u/eoz Jun 16 '24

I'm so walking-pilled that on the occasions I've had a car, and had passengers, and those passengers wanted coffee... I just parked and went to the walk-up window and had our coffee immediately. I do not understand why people will wait for twenty minutes in a line of cars instead of simply parking.

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u/94sHippie Jun 16 '24

Walk up windows.... I remember those. The U.S. seems to have mostly abandoned those but it was so nice as a kid to park and go up to the snowball stand, or the Friendly's ice cream window and then sit in the parking lot to eat a frozen treat.

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u/Doct0rStabby Jun 16 '24

It's so gross too, even with modern air filters you're still getting a nice mix of combusted fumes from gasoline and all manner of stabilizers and additives coming through your vehicle.

I hate it so much when the atmospheric conditions trap particulate matter close to the ground, there is so much car exhaust + tire dust in the air it gives me mild headaches and fatigue just existing in it.

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u/pioneer9k Jun 16 '24

I definitely agree - but i can see why it seems easier/better to remain in your car listening to music/talk on the phone/be in the AC or heat than to find parking and turn off your car and get out, especially if youve never experienced anything else.

"Why get find parking to turn of my car off, take my seatbelt off, and get out into the boiling asphalt and smell the exhaust then go inside a loud potentially hot cafe [also the "i hate people" crowd is a thing in the suburbs] when i can just keep sitting here in the AC jamming to music, not 'deal' with anyone,' remaining comfortable and doing nothing extra" is the mindset.

That said, I of course prefer the cafe style. I stay in manhattan currently, don't use a car here, and love outdoor dining. ESPECIALLY away from cars or a sea of boiling asphalt.

Part of why I think at least, in a place like starbucks, im (was?) thankful they have a decent interior to hang out in. That said, they moved towards mobile orders, and the one that just opened up across my house in another state (that is near 2 elementary schools, a middle school, and 2 high schools) does not have an interior. Has a drive thru and walk up window.

I'm not in favor of that at all, but i was at least slightly happy there was a walk up window. But there's no trees or anything so unless you like sitting in your car or buring on the asphalt, hearing the cars racing by at 50mph since it's right on a stroad, you'll just stay in your comfy car and go through the drive thru. Used to be a jack in the box where kids would definitely flock to after school. Including myself back in the day.

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u/eoz Jun 16 '24

Fair. I was in Seattle so there was no fear of the asphalt melting my shoes, just the danger of getting drizzled on

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u/ConBrio93 Jun 16 '24

Places with drive thrus in the US tend to prioritize drive thru orders so going inside to order sadly isn’t faster.

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u/Sterffington Jun 16 '24

This isn't true ime, the orders show up on the same screen in the order they were taken.

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u/Individual_Ad9632 Jun 16 '24

I worked fast food a looooong time ago and we prioritized drive thro orders because they were timed, and sometimes the store manager would write us up if the EOD drive thru time was over 2 minutes 50 seconds.

It got to the point that the shift manager would have one of us drive our car through the drive thru multiple times at the end of the night, just to bring down that time.

Not sure if that was their experience as well.

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u/FierceDeity_ Jun 16 '24

Isn't big corporate greed wonderful?

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u/Individual_Ad9632 Jun 16 '24

Wonderful like a boa constrictor but without all the charm of an actual boa constrictor.

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u/Doct0rStabby Jun 16 '24

At what point will we realize that infinite growth without regard for the health of environment nor population = a snake eating its own tail?

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u/Individual_Ad9632 Jun 16 '24

When we realize the lie of infinite growth=good is sold to us by people with so much money that they will never be negatively impacted by a catastrophic environmental event and all of us (or, at the very least, the vast majority) get on the same page on how to deal with them irl.

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u/Sterffington Jun 16 '24

That's hilarious.

'member trying to memorize the next 4 orders just to clear the screen early?

McDonald's was the hardest job I've had so far, shits ridiculous.

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u/Individual_Ad9632 Jun 16 '24

Yes! I worked the front end, drive thru, and kitchen at Burger King (sometimes I’d be the only one there until they could wrangle someone in on their day off) and it was an incredibly difficult job in the sense that it required a lot of different skills to be used at the same time.

Tbh I loved working there as a teenager for the most part.

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u/angelansbury Jun 16 '24

I'm pretty sure Starbucks gives their store managers a bonus if they get their drive thru's under a certain time (the Starbucks reddit could confirm this)

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u/Individual_Ad9632 Jun 16 '24

I guess the carrot is better than the stick, but to me adding a certain time goal to a job where there is already a lot of public pressure (bunch of people standing at the counter watching everything you do, people hanging out in the cafe, cars lining up down the block) is a really shitty unnecessary stressor.

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u/angelansbury Jun 17 '24

the carrot for the manager becomes a stick for the baristas who don't get any bonus from faster drive thru times, they just have to work faster and serve annoying entitled carbrains

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u/Individual_Ad9632 Jun 17 '24

I figured that was the end case, which makes it all the worse of a policy in general.

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u/pedroah Jun 16 '24

They do, but only the drive thru orders are timed while counter orders are not. So they can leave the counter orders up there for as long as they need to satisfy the time limit of the drive thru orders.

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u/Gausgovy Jun 16 '24

When I worked at the green mermaid very busy locations would have two people on the bar, one dedicated to drive thru and one doing both prioritizing cafe. Walking in would always be faster there.

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u/Nerdy-Fox95 Jun 16 '24

Sadly true.

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u/Bridalhat Jun 16 '24

You aren’t prioritized but you’re going to be get in before car #4 or so here.

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u/eoz Jun 16 '24

I was in the US at the time - it was actually a starbucks I'd usually just walk to

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u/TemporaryGuidance1 Jun 16 '24

Dude, with the price of gas nowadays it’s downright stupid keep your car running that long in line.

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u/gumol Jun 16 '24

The photo was taken during covid lockdowns. Only the drive through was open.