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<p>When you&#39;re driving through a McDonalds, it&#39;s all too easy to forget just how much people can hear from the other side of the speakers.</p><p>People working drive-thrus are often privvy to bizarre conversational snippets that customers think are confined to the privacy of their car. On top of that, drive thru workers also get a sneak peek at all the bizarre things people store in their cars, which can tell another story completely.</p><p>In <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/lvx592/drive_thru_workers_what_are_some_interesting/" target="_blank">a handful of popular </a><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/jvem4o/people_who_have_worked_the_drive_thru_whats_the/?sort=new" target="_blank">Reddit threads</a>, fast food employees and regulars shared their most memorable moments at the drive thru window.</p><h2>1. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/xLogikal/">xLogikal</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>A few months back I was ordering from KFC, when I heard a live chicken on the other end going batsh*t crazy, turns out a kid had snuck in a rooster in his bag into the restaurant, and let it out when he got to the counter.</p> </blockquote><h2>2. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/KatieCatTheGod/">KatieCatTheGod</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>One time about halfway through an order everyone in the car started to scream, turns out a bee flew into the car.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>3. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/crunchycabbages/">crunchycabbages</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Well I can hear stuff before I ask what you want. I had someone yelling outside the car calling someone a f*cking c*nt and then sorta looked into the drive thru area I was in and I think he could tell that I heard him.</p> </blockquote><h2>4. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Soviet_Fatass/">Soviet_Fata*s</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I saw a Woman standing near the drive up lane, asking for McNuggets in exchange for McSex. No. Thanks.</p> </blockquote><h2>5. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SpartyMcfly-/">SpartyMcfly-</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I went to Arby&#39;s and asked what sauces they have. He began listing them and as a joke, I stopped him when he said &quot;horsey sauce&quot; to ask him if they put authentic horse in the horsey sauce. This mf flips over a packet and begins reading the ingredients. My buddy, who was in the driver seat, looks at me and says &quot;you&#39;re such a d*ck&quot; and the drive through guy thought he was talking to him and not me! It goes without saying, I checked my food before eating it.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>6. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MoonXShipper/">MoonXShipper</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>It was a Sunday night and the wind was chilling despite it being summer. Two people inside the car - one asian male and a black guy, were arguing whether KFC chicken tastes better than Spicy Korean Chicken. After much arguing, they decided it was Popeye&#39;s so they left the McDonald&#39;s drive through.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>I was just standing there for a good 15 minutes waiting for them to finish and didn&#39;t even buy anything.</p> </blockquote><h2>7. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/insertcaffeine/">insertcaffeine</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Customer here. There was a period when my son was 3-4 years old when I couldn&#39;t do drive thru. He&#39;d roll down the window and talk over me (order for himself without clearing it with me, tell the order taker what music we&#39;re listening to, introduce himself, etc.)</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Side note for drive thru workers: If a three-year-old orders a frappuccino at the drive thru, confirm with the driver before making the thing.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>8. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/VecroLP/">VecroLP</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Here is a little known fact from a McDonald&#39;s employee, those order poles aren&#39;t just a microphone and speaker, there&#39;s also a camera in there, so yeah...you might want to stop having car sex before you enter the McDrive.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Also, stop picking your nose!!!! People saying they wash their hand every hour get really flustered when I show them the picture our system takes of them with their finger so far up their nose they look like they&#39;re trying to reach their brain.</p> </blockquote><h2>9. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/partha_t/">partha_t</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Around midnight, I went to a McDonalds to get some food. It&rsquo;s pretty close by, I walked up there only to know that their walk-in is closed but drive thru is open. I tried to order at the drive thru, the guy declined to take my order because I don&rsquo;t have a car. I tried to justify my situation but he didn&rsquo;t take my order for some safety policy. I left the place with no food. I was curious to know if this is really a security/safety policy and checked with the manager next day. Turns out the order taker was racist enough(I&rsquo;ve an Asian accent) to not take my order and gave me excuses that night. Last I heard, he was fired.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>10. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/SoapySapling/">SoapySapling</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>A few of my favorites:</p> <p>Coworker: Apple slices or extra fries</p> <p>Customer: Yes</p> <p>Then</p> <p>Customer: Can I have the nuggets</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Me: The spicy nuggets or the regular?</p> <p>Customer: Yes</p> <p>Then after some back and forth, during which I determined he wanted the regular, I ask him how many he wanted.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Customer: How many can I get?</p> <p>Me: We have the 4, 6, 10, 20, and 40 count nuggets.</p> <p>Customer: I&rsquo;ll have five.</p> <p>I swear I f*ckin short circuited for a moment. When he pulled up to pay we joked about it cause he was genuinely confused but man that gave me whiplash.</p> <p>Another time a dude asked for a 15 count and got mad when I informed him that we don&rsquo;t have a 15 count nugget</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Then this happened one time:</p> <p>Customer: I&rsquo;ll have five double cheese burgers</p> <p>Manager: I&rsquo;m sorry but we&rsquo;re out of burger meat</p> <p>Customer: Okay, I&rsquo;ll have four double cheese burgers-</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><h2>11. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/NewYorkGiantsFan1/">NewYorkGiantsFan1</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>&quot;How about after we eat I give you head?&quot;</p> <p>No lie...and when they pulled around...I felt bad for that guy that was driving. Because the female passenger offering the oral looked like she got run over before he put her in the car.</p> </blockquote><h2>12. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Sylch/">Sylch</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I had someone ask for the Travis Scott Burrito at Taco Bell.</p> </blockquote><h2>13. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Fake_Southern_IL/">Fake_Southern_IL</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>My brother working at a drive-thru had someone with a kangaroo in the passenger seat. This is in the Midwestern US.</p> </blockquote><h2>14. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/graccha/">graccha</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I was a regular at a McDonald&#39;s during my morning commute when I worked a soulless office gig.</p> <p>We had a Halloween decorating contest and the decorations remained up for a while. So it was mid November and I had a skeleton chillin in my passenger seat.</p> <p>The poor lady, who knew me fairly well by this point, nearly had a heart attack.</p> </blockquote><h2>15. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Cman710/">Cman710</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>I got a good one.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>One night I was working graveyard and some rowdy people come through to order. I expect a bunch of teenagers as it&rsquo;s like 12 at night. What I got shocked me.</p> <p>It was a car of five elderly people, getting high from a bong. What&rsquo;s more is they were lighting it with a BLOW TORCH. I have never seen something so crazy in my life and they were taking hits, and asking me to join them and it was like &ldquo;oh my god.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>They were nice enough to set a cup holder on fire and throw it at the building too. Which I learned after a customer screamed we were on fire. That was one hell of a night.</p> <p>Another was far more terrifying because of what I didn&rsquo;t see...</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>The place I work at is currently haunted by a woman. We&rsquo;ve seen but not heard much of her. That changed one night when someone drove up and asked for something we didn&rsquo;t have.</p> <p>I heard the loudest, most blood-curdling woman&rsquo;s scream I&rsquo;ve heard in my life. I figured it was his GF but he said &ldquo;thanks no worries have a good night.&rdquo; I was like what a jerk they are for doing that...</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Until he drove by and I saw there was...absolutely no one but him in the car.</p> <p>It was my last car of the night thank god because I was spooked. It literally sounded like someone being murdered.</p> <p>Hope y&rsquo;all enjoyed my little share.</p> </blockquote><h2>16. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kthxtyler/">kthxtyler</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Guy sitting criss-cross <em>on top</em> of the car. Drove off after getting food perfectly normal out into the street and off they went, dude still sitting on top of the car.</p> </blockquote><h2>17. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Illustrious-Ad-5655/">Illustrious-Ad-5655</a>:</h2><blockquote> <p>Some guy had a box full of dildos and a giant Lego Set. Bizarre experience.</p> </blockquote><h2>18. From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kelsiewest11/">kelsiewest11</a>:</h2><p> </p><blockquote> <p>I saw a lady have her dog in her front seat and he 90+ year old husband in the back. I worked at a fairly fancy &ldquo;fast food&rdquo; place (Panera Bread) so I haven&rsquo;t seen anything too weird. Just a bunch of stoners.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

18 fast food workers and regulars share their most memorable moments at the drive-thru.

When you&#39;re driving through a McDonalds, it&#39;s all too easy to forget just how much people can hear from the other side of the speakers.People working drive-thrus are often privvy to bizarre conversational snippets that customers think are confined to the privacy of their car. On top of that, drive thru workers also get a sneak peek at all the bizarre things people store in their cars, which can tell another story completely.In a handful of popular Reddit threads, fast food employees and regulars shared their most memorable moments at the drive thru window.1. From xLogikal: A few months back I was ordering from KFC, when I heard a live chicken on the other end going batsh*t crazy, turns out a kid had snuck in a rooster in his bag into the restaurant, and let it out when he got to the counter. 2. From KatieCatTheGod: One time about halfway through an order everyone in the car started to scream, turns out a bee flew into the car. 3. From crunchycabbages: Well I can hear stuff before I ask what you want. I had someone yelling outside the car calling someone a f*cking c*nt and then sorta looked into the drive thru area I was in and I think he could tell that I heard him. 4. From Soviet_Fata*s: I saw a Woman standing near the drive up lane, asking for McNuggets in exchange for McSex. No. Thanks. 5. From SpartyMcfly-: I went to Arby&#39;s and asked what sauces they have. He began listing them and as a joke, I stopped him when he said &quot;horsey sauce&quot; to ask him if they put authentic horse in the horsey sauce. This mf flips over a packet and begins reading the ingredients. My buddy, who was in the driver seat, looks at me and says &quot;you&#39;re such a d*ck&quot; and the drive through guy thought he was talking to him and not me! It goes without saying, I checked my food before eating it. 6. From MoonXShipper: It was a Sunday night and the wind was chilling despite it being summer. Two people inside the car - one asian male and a black guy, were arguing whether KFC chicken tastes better than Spicy Korean Chicken. After much arguing, they decided it was Popeye&#39;s so they left the McDonald&#39;s drive through.  I was just standing there for a good 15 minutes waiting for them to finish and didn&#39;t even buy anything. 7. From insertcaffeine: Customer here. There was a period when my son was 3-4 years old when I couldn&#39;t do drive thru. He&#39;d roll down the window and talk over me (order for himself without clearing it with me, tell the order taker what music we&#39;re listening to, introduce himself, etc.)  Side note for drive thru workers: If a three-year-old orders a frappuccino at the drive thru, confirm with the driver before making the thing. 8. From VecroLP: Here is a little known fact from a McDonald&#39;s employee, those order poles aren&#39;t just a microphone and speaker, there&#39;s also a camera in there, so yeah...you might want to stop having car sex before you enter the McDrive.  Also, stop picking your nose!!!! People saying they wash their hand every hour get really flustered when I show them the picture our system takes of them with their finger so far up their nose they look like they&#39;re trying to reach their brain. 9. From partha_t: Around midnight, I went to a McDonalds to get some food. It&rsquo;s pretty close by, I walked up there only to know that their walk-in is closed but drive thru is open. I tried to order at the drive thru, the guy declined to take my order because I don&rsquo;t have a car. I tried to justify my situation but he didn&rsquo;t take my order for some safety policy. I left the place with no food. I was curious to know if this is really a security/safety policy and checked with the manager next day. Turns out the order taker was racist enough(I&rsquo;ve an Asian accent) to not take my order and gave me excuses that night. Last I heard, he was fired. 10. From SoapySapling:  A few of my favorites: Coworker: Apple slices or extra fries Customer: Yes Then Customer: Can I have the nuggets  Me: The spicy nuggets or the regular? Customer: Yes Then after some back and forth, during which I determined he wanted the regular, I ask him how many he wanted.  Customer: How many can I get? Me: We have the 4, 6, 10, 20, and 40 count nuggets. Customer: I&rsquo;ll have five. I swear I f*ckin short circuited for a moment. When he pulled up to pay we joked about it cause he was genuinely confused but man that gave me whiplash. Another time a dude asked for a 15 count and got mad when I informed him that we don&rsquo;t have a 15 count nugget  Then this happened one time: Customer: I&rsquo;ll have five double cheese burgers Manager: I&rsquo;m sorry but we&rsquo;re out of burger meat Customer: Okay, I&rsquo;ll have four double cheese burgers- 11. From NewYorkGiantsFan1: &quot;How about after we eat I give you head?&quot; No lie...and when they pulled around...I felt bad for that guy that was driving. Because the female passenger offering the oral looked like she got run over before he put her in the car. 12. From Sylch: I had someone ask for the Travis Scott Burrito at Taco Bell. 13. From Fake_Southern_IL: My brother working at a drive-thru had someone with a kangaroo in the passenger seat. This is in the Midwestern US. 14. From graccha: I was a regular at a McDonald&#39;s during my morning commute when I worked a soulless office gig. We had a Halloween decorating contest and the decorations remained up for a while. So it was mid November and I had a skeleton chillin in my passenger seat. The poor lady, who knew me fairly well by this point, nearly had a heart attack. 15. From Cman710: I got a good one.  One night I was working graveyard and some rowdy people come through to order. I expect a bunch of teenagers as it&rsquo;s like 12 at night. What I got shocked me. It was a car of five elderly people, getting high from a bong. What&rsquo;s more is they were lighting it with a BLOW TORCH. I have never seen something so crazy in my life and they were taking hits, and asking me to join them and it was like &ldquo;oh my god.&rdquo;  They were nice enough to set a cup holder on fire and throw it at the building too. Which I learned after a customer screamed we were on fire. That was one hell of a night. Another was far more terrifying because of what I didn&rsquo;t see...  The place I work at is currently haunted by a woman. We&rsquo;ve seen but not heard much of her. That changed one night when someone drove up and asked for something we didn&rsquo;t have. I heard the loudest, most blood-curdling woman&rsquo;s scream I&rsquo;ve heard in my life. I figured it was his GF but he said &ldquo;thanks no worries have a good night.&rdquo; I was like what a jerk they are for doing that...  Until he drove by and I saw there was...absolutely no one but him in the car. It was my last car of the night thank god because I was spooked. It literally sounded like someone being murdered. Hope y&rsquo;all enjoyed my little share. 16. From kthxtyler: Guy sitting criss-cross on top of the car. Drove off after getting food perfectly normal out into the street and off they went, dude still sitting on top of the car. 17. From Illustrious-Ad-5655: Some guy had a box full of dildos and a giant Lego Set. Bizarre experience. 18. From kelsiewest11:  I saw a lady have her dog in her front seat and he 90+ year old husband in the back. I worked at a fairly fancy &ldquo;fast food&rdquo; place (Panera Bread) so I haven&rsquo;t seen anything too weird. Just a bunch of stoners. 

TFW your order comes with something extra.