How do you feel about DRIVE THRUS?

[DVCLiz]

Seriously?! These things actually exist?

In the UK we only have drive thrus for fast food places, i've never even heard of drive thrus for anything else. Seems very lazy to me. Its almost always quicker to pop inside rather than use the drive thru anyway. I can understand the need for this if you have a sick child but lets face it, the majority of people who use drive thrus are doing so because they can't be bothered to park up and *gasp* go inside. Plus children being sick isn't a new phenomenon, parents have managed to take care of their sick children adequately for years before drive thrus came along.

Yes, most parents dealt with sick children by leaving them in the car alone or taking them inside. While I'm all for some things from the good old days, this isn't one of them.

I don't think it's quicker to park and go inside at all. For me, it's almost always quicker to use the drive through.

 

[USA Here I Come]

Again, I run 5 miles a day in addition to teaching an interval strength training class most days as well. I utilize a drive-through whenever possible.

I epitomize laziness. Truly.

I'm going to go be lazy right now actually and get *gasp* full service gas AND get a cup of coffee at the drive through on my way to take my lazy kids to run around at the mall.

I'm pratically a sloth.

Ok....so how many other people who use drive thrus daily do you expect run 5miles a day? I'm betting not too many.

 

[It's A Happy Day]

Again, I run 5 miles a day in addition to teaching an interval strength training class most days as well. I utilize a drive-through whenever possible.

I epitomize laziness. Truly.

I'm going to go be lazy right now actually and get *gasp* full service gas AND get a cup of coffee at the drive through on my way to take my lazy kids to run around at the mall.

I'm pratically a sloth.

If I remember correctly, it is actually ILLEGAL to pump your own gas in New Jersey (or at least it used to be). They feel that by "doing it yourself" you are taking away someone's job. Can we now call New Jersey the "lazy state"

 

[connorlevismom]

I run 5 miles a day and utilize drive throughs whenever possible, do you run 5 miles a day?

Your my hero!!!

Kristine

 

[wvjules]

If you want to use a drive-thru then go ahead...if you don't then don't. However if you do, please dont order different types of donuts and more than 1 coffee. lol

 

[katerkat]

Every coffee place here is drive-thru, and the vast majority of them are JUST drive-thru - you can't go inside because the inside is just the machines and the barista. Every time I visit my parent in Jersey it's a culture shock to have to get out of the car for coffee. (But then, in Jersey I don't have to pump my own gas, so it works out in the end.)

Of course, I walk to the grocery store in the summer time, so that makes me better than all you lazy people.

 

[USA Here I Come]

Yes, most parents dealt with sick children by leaving them in the car alone or taking them inside. While I'm all for some things from the good old days, this isn't one of them.

I don't think it's quicker to park and go inside at all. For me, it's almost always quicker to use the drive through.

So people in the UK and probably the rest of the world must be really crappy parents then considering they don't rely on drive thrus when their children are sick. Hmmm...

 

[nataliela]

We have Drive-Thru Daiquiri Shops down here


Although they do tape the straws to the lids! (open container law)


I personally don't use drive-thrus too often, but I really could care less who uses them and who doesn't




I really don't think walking 5 more steps inside is going to burn the 800 calories you are about to cosume.

 

[Lintasare]

Ok....so how many other people who use drive thrus daily do you expect run 5miles a day? I'm betting not too many.

And I would like to say just because a person uses a drive thru does not make them lazy. Nor does using a drive thru contribute to the rising obesity rate in this country.

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

And no I don't have kids but I fail to see what that has to do with anything. I'm not talking specifically about parents here. I'm talking about all kinds of people. So, why do you keep asking me if I have children? If I don't have children, I can't possibly understand drive-thrus?

It has everything to do with this statement you made. I just wanted to know if you had "been there"..now we know.

So if your children are sick, stay home and cook them a meal.

 

[mickeyboat]

Ok....so how many other people who use drive thrus daily do you expect run 5miles a day? I'm betting not too many.

Come back to this thread when you have three kids, own a house, work full time and are responsible for taking care of all your household errands. I thnk you will have a much different perspective.

Denae

 

[Mkrop]

Ok....so how many other people who use drive thrus daily do you expect run 5miles a day? I'm betting not too many.

I think her point was dont paint everyone with the same brush. Drive thrus do not EQAUL laziness. She is an example of a healthy drive thruer, and yes there are lazy people who do walk into the store as well.

 

[wvjules]

I think drive-thrus are like a lot of convienant things. You don't realize how much you rely on them (or miss them) until they're gone. I know when my microwave broke, I got the shakes. lol

 

[DVCLiz]

So people in the UK and probably the rest of the world must be really crappy parents then considering they don't rely on drive thrus when their children are sick. Hmmm...

I don't know what kind of parents they are. My point is it's better in my opinion to have an option to drive through a store in order to get some needed items like food or medicine, rather than leaving a sick child alone in the car or taking him or her inside to expose others. I don't know why it wouldn't be simple common sense that it's better to use a drive through if you had the option to do so, in the case of sick children.

 

[Heidict]

Can we now call New Jersey the "lazy state"

Put that one on your license plates!!

I don't care at all what they think of me. Or what you think of me, either, for that matter. A convenience store is not the place I am going to stop and chat with anyone who is a stranger. They might be Mother Teresa but I'm not going to interact with them in any way unless I have to. It's not the kind of place I'd be looking around and seeing who it might be fun to get to know.

Maybe your convenience stores are full of delightful, clean, sober fun-loving chatters, but mine are mostly full of teenage boys and older guys, and they do buy cigarettes and beer. And smokeless tobacco and porn magazines. Sorry, I'll have to admit I'd rather stay up on my pedestal than hop off and mingle....

Stop and chat with strangers in a convenience store? I don't do that either, but I also don't look at people coming into convenience stores as someone that is beneath me. After all I'm there also. It is just a conveniece store afterall and not the local porn and toy shop.

If you want to use a drive-thru then go ahead...if you don't then don't. However if you do, please dont order different types of donuts and more than 1 coffee. lol

Oh, no!! Lets not open that can of worms again!!

So people in the UK and probably the rest of the world must be really crappy parents then considering they don't rely on drive thrus when their children are sick. Hmmm...

But at least you aren't lazy!!

 

[RVGal]

Again, I run 5 miles a day in addition to teaching an interval strength training class most days as well. I utilize a drive-through whenever possible.

I epitomize laziness. Truly.

I'm going to go be lazy right now actually and get *gasp* full service gas AND get a cup of coffee at the drive through on my way to take my lazy kids to run around at the mall.

I'm pratically a sloth.

I can see the moss growing on your back from here.

 

[PrincessKitty1]

I drive-throughs (bumper sticker please! ).

My bank has a 7 AM to 7 PM drive-thru and that's why we picked this bank. (Not to mention that they always give our dog a Milk Bone!)

My pharmacy has a 24-hour drive-thru (prescriptions only, ya can't buy anything else via the drive-thru) and that's why we picked the pharmacy.

We go to a drive-thru Mexican food place all the time, and that's why we go there so often.

We have a drive through Starbucks but it's on the other side of town so we only go there when we're shopping in the area. Believe me, if my local Starbucks was a drive-thru they'd get a LOT more of my money.

I would LOVE a drive-thru convenience store! We used to have one but it was on the other side of town.....used to go there to buy beer in my college days.

I don't understand why people would think it's somehow VIRTUOUS to park and go inside?? Maybe I'm misunderstanding or missing something here.

 

[Lintasare]

I can see the moss growing on your back from here.

Call me lazy...I am using Applebees Carside To Go for my lunch today. Grilled Shrimp and Spinach Salad is calling my name. Yummy.

 

[Briarmom]

I haven't had the pleasure of using a drive thru in quite some time (I did go home to ND for the summer so I got to use a few there ). They just don't have them here.

I don't really get why anyone cares if people use a drive thru! I personally have only used them for fast food in my life, but I don't really see how this should bother anyone.

Oh! I just remembered that I have indeed used a drive thru since moving away from the US. In Cairo the McDonalds we went to had a drive thru. But they also delivered. So did Drinkies the beer store. So there you have it. It is indeed possible to get lazier than using a drive thru.

 

[Arielle22]

My town has a bylaw which forbids drive thrus. The 1 Dunkin Donut was grandfathered in but no more. The town also doesn't allow fast food.

What a pain if I get a McD's craving. We have to drive 20 miles to a town that has one!

There is a drive thru Walgreens in the next town. I don't use it.

However I remember about 8 years ago I had to take my grandmother in law to a dr visit. MIL was her guardian at that point so she was there. Plus I had dd who were 5 and 7. The appt was in a hospital and then we needed to pick up a called in perscription. I was never so happy to learn their Walgreens had a drive thru. GMIL and MIL lived on the other side of Boston (1.25 hrs from my house) and then back to a hospital in Boston. Reverse the course to get home. I remember thinking I would need to take dd into the store with MIL and myself to get the perscription. That would have driven me right over the ledge.