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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (10 children)

I don’t like waiting in my car, but I fucking hate packed restaurants/cafes where I have to scoot my chair in extra tight so people don’t keep having to rub their junk on me every time they squeeze behind me.

I choose option 3: make my coffee/tea at home because I’m poor asf.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

so people don’t keep having to rub their junk on me

I agree with GiantFloppyCock.

[–] Moc 16 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Is there a sublemmy for rimjob Steve yet?

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[–] RojoSanIchiban 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm on option 3 because no coffee/tea is worth the wasted time and resources of leaving my house early (even if I had to commute) to wait in line for it. This is just terminally stupid to me and I am unable to understand why anyone does it as part of their daily routine.

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[–] Izzy 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think the problem with cars is that they aren't comfortable. Unfortunately they are too comfortable. You get to sit in an air conditioned box with leather seats, no external noise while listening to an audiobook. Then your coffee just shows up.

[–] Nurgle 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol I always think that when cars don’t want to stop for me walking. Like bro chill you’re sitting in a literal recliner rn

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[–] dlpkl 60 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

The car ofc 😂. Air conditioned, my own music, private space, no waiting for a table, no listening to other conversations. But this is a stupid comparison altogether. I wouldn't go to the drive thru for a social coffee and I wouldn't go to the cafe for a quick coffee.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (20 children)

The people lining up, instead of parking and taking 5 mins to go inside, are terminally stupid. I encountered this the other day, and I was out the door with my coffee before the line had even moved.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't that a covid thing?
With that being said, there is no way i would've waited there when i saw 3 or more cars.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Are you by any chance telling them to walk on their legs?

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I make my coffee at home. It's cheaper.

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[–] MirthfulAlembic 23 points 1 year ago (6 children)

The silver lining is I can nip inside to the almost empty coffee shop and leave with my order before two cars have been served. No idea why these people would rather sit in their car for twenty minutes than walk for twenty seconds.

[–] Drop_All_Users 8 points 1 year ago

I wish this was true, I've tried it multiple times at Starbucks and it doesn't work.

I think the majority of the staff is working on mobile/drive thru orders vs the orders that come in at the counter.

Regardless, going inside has taken me longer then joining that stupid line.

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[–] MrSlicer 21 points 1 year ago (8 children)

My car is probably more comfortable tbh. Especially if weather is bad.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If I am to answer honestly, the car. But only because it's like a little fortress of solitude and separates me from the public where I would otherwise be an anxious mess. But to be fair, you did only ask what looks more comfortable. I still don't want cars to be the main mode of transportation.

[–] nuachtan 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

First, I agree with everything you typed. BUT

Second, "a little fortress of solitude and separates me from the public" is kinda the problem we have that leads to the top part of the picture. We in the West in general and the United States in particular have lost our sense of community. My car by myself listening to what I want in solitude is AWESOME, but stopping to sit and be part of a community is probably better for me.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

None of them honestly, both are too crouded.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Not only that, that brasserie is on the Rive Gauche in Paris so if you sit outside to watch the world go by, the fuckers charge you extra lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

(I'm just having fun thinking about the comparison, nothing too directed at your statement as I also agree with that)

Both pictures contain the same amount of people, but there is likely three more shops around the shop in the below picture which all fit in the same space as the upper one, one of which is probably also not as crowded. Also, there are at least 30 apartments in that area as well as other shops and it has worked like that for centuries, if not a millennium

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Mr. Bones I want to get off your industrialized hell hole infrastructure ride

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (13 children)

In CA, my rent is close to $2k a month, but I can walk to basically everything I need to. In MI, my rent is $650 a month, but the closest coffee shop is miles away.

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[–] souma 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Honestly traffic laws should still be enforced for those situations. Cars can't just sit in the lane or intersection, so either pull into the parking lot or drive on

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[–] ClaireDeLuna 9 points 1 year ago

On a personal level, I'd realistically pass on both of these places. But the nice thing with the bottom option? 9/10 times there's another place with what I'd want within a reasonable walking distance, along with other options. Even in a small European village I've observed several places to eat within walking distance of each other.

My absolute disdain for traffic overpowers my disdain for crowds by far.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the drive-thru is that backed up it's often faster to just park in the lot and order inside.

[–] kinsnik 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

that photo was almost definitely taken during covid, when going inside was not an option

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[–] chiliedogg 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's been over 100° for over 40 days straight.

Fuck, yeah I'll take the air-conditioned recliner with a sound system that plays exactly what I want and doesn't require me to walk 4 blocks to get a cup of coffee.

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[–] PrairieRanger 7 points 1 year ago

The top one looks like an amogus

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (12 children)

All you car haters, I'd like to see you sitting outside, having a coffee, in Arizona during the summer where it is 56°C during most hours on a daily basis.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Shouldn't have built a city in the middle of the fucking desert.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

You could still do the bottom picture inside.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, Arizona is not meant to be lived in. As well as Mars, for example.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't believe that anyone from Arizona would use Celsius.

[–] Saneless 7 points 1 year ago

It's the only way it'll ever be 2 numbers again

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[–] megalodon 7 points 1 year ago

Those coffee shops have inside space too.

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