This is a re-post from August 31 of some year, I’m not sure which.
One of my kids’ favorite things to mock me about is my problem with ordering at a drive thru. I was at Tim Horton’s one day, waiting, waiting, waiting, oh so patiently, for the person “in the speaker” to pleasantly say, “Welcome to Tim Horton’s, may I take your order?” After what I thought was a reasonable wait, I said, “Hello?” No response. I repeated my “Hello” about three times, each time getting a little louder and a little angrier. Finally I rudely bleated out, “IS ANYBODY THERE?” (Mind you, there are cars behind me piling up and watching) I suddenly hear a faint, “could you pull up please, ma’am?” I realized I was screaming into the garbage can, which looks amazingly similar to the speaker, I think.
Check it out next time you’re there.
Love,
Little Miss Sunshine
OMG Sarah – I swear I did the exact same thing! Mark was cracking up before he told me to pull up to the speaker – haha. I’m not a regular, so how was I to know I was talking to a garbage can?? Oh well, I think it’s pretty funny to know that someone else actually did the same thing!!
Hugs, Nancy
Happens all the time. Drive thrus have a vehicle sensor that detects when a vehicle arrives at the order station. This is actually a metal detector that recognizes the metal of your car. This detector can be adjusted as to how sensitive it is. If you set the sensitivity too high, then the detector would go off if a simple empty can of pop or loose change was to fall on it. If the sensitivity is set too low, then there may be some vehicles that it will not be able to detect. ie. if a vehicle has a raised suspension or such as many high suspension pick trucks: Dodge Ram for example. On many other occassions, it is due to the customer being too far from the detector. Many consumers will do this to get around an inevetible tight turn. Again, if the vehicle is too far from the sensor, it won’t be able to read it. As for you yelling at the garbage can, that is in fact what you were doing. Until the sensor detects your vehicle, the employee inside would have no idea that you were even there. Regardless of how loudly you choose to yell, they will be unable to hear you.
Nancy, Two peas in a pod, we always were! xo