This literally happens all the time… Have you been through a drive through?
You order first, then at the first window you pay, then at the second window you pick up what you ordered.
So you can pay for the car behind you, people do it, sometimes they get a long chain of people doing it, all paying for the car behind them.
Personally I think the long chain is dumb, and I won’t participate if I’m in the middle. If nobody ends it then nobody benefits from it. Might as well be me, I’m not rich.
However… you are right, I don’t think it would be easy to take the food of the car behind you, even if you paid for it. I’ve never worked in fast food but I’m sure there’s checks in place to make sure the right car gets the food, so you’d have to explain yourself. I imagine?
Drive through consists of five distinct locations:
Ordering at a speaker stand.
Paying at the first window (which is not where you ordered)
Waiting at the second window to get told to go to the third window.
Being told to move out of the line, and park next to it, because an order of a royale with cheese, a medium fries with mayo, and a medium sprite is too complex of an order to process fast.
Going down the highway, crying because nobody remembers pulp fiction, and eating your bag of crap.
How would the person behind have already ordered if they’re behind?
Why would the cashier not check with the person behind that they want someone else to pay?
The whole thing sounds implausible and ragebait.
This literally happens all the time… Have you been through a drive through?
You order first, then at the first window you pay, then at the second window you pick up what you ordered. So you can pay for the car behind you, people do it, sometimes they get a long chain of people doing it, all paying for the car behind them.
Personally I think the long chain is dumb, and I won’t participate if I’m in the middle. If nobody ends it then nobody benefits from it. Might as well be me, I’m not rich.
However… you are right, I don’t think it would be easy to take the food of the car behind you, even if you paid for it. I’ve never worked in fast food but I’m sure there’s checks in place to make sure the right car gets the food, so you’d have to explain yourself. I imagine?
I have, but not in a long time.
I didn’t know payment chains were a thing. Makes little sense to me, the Tim Robinson sketch kind of shows the gist of why, but why not.
You are assuming that A) drive thru workers give a fuck & B) drive thru workers give a fuck.
“I want to pay for the car behind me” THEM: “ok”
“I need to grab both these orders.” THEM: “ok”
They aren’t paid enough to care. At worst the second car had to wait for her food to be remade and got it for free - the horror.
Drive through consists of five distinct locations: