this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2023
218 points (97.0% liked)
Asklemmy
43786 readers
990 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- [email protected]: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
I'd outlaw drive through.
No longer will that fucking line up for coffee reach down the road and over the horizon in the morning. The sitting there for twenty minutes, idling your car as you watch the person in front of you park in the middle of the intersection like an asshole. No.
Go, park, use the magic of being a biped.
Now there's no excuse. You either drink the coffee at work, or face that Starbucks barista you know secretly hates you. Biped your way in the door, get your morning fix with confidence because fuck mark, no barista is going to ruin your day.
Not while I'm there banning drive throughs to ruin it for you.
Edit: Barista. I don't even know what a batista is but could potentially be a bad ass.
I don't use the drive through because I'm lazy. I use it so I can have the most minimal amount of human contact possible
We have apps for that in NL. You order and pay in the app, the staff makes your order and you pick it up when you get there.
Works like a charm on train stations, as you know your ETA.
I always thought they're called a drive thru?
Thru is a word only in the sense that kleen, kwik, kut, tuff, chik, nite, lite, tho, etc are words. It's called cacography or eye dialect and is the result of marketing and advertising agencies not being able to copyright common phrases. When the terms enter colloquial language, they're still used but not copyrighted as the incorrect spelling still draws your attention.
Through is a ridiculous way to spell something pronounced threw though. I say kick through to the curb and embrace thru.
Ha ha Etymology is fascinating. English is a wild language.
My wife always does the drive thru.
But I hate it. I always elect to just run in and handle it. Most of the time, it's faster.