Drive Thru Rage?
Maybe the entrance for the drive thru wasn't where she expected it?
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Doesn't sound like she was Drive Thru customer at all, but one the righteous ones who's seen the light and was parking to walk inside, thus being 'part' of her community.
In what may be one of the most frustrating/bizarre trends Ive noticed recently is people using bank drive thrus--they drive up, put their vehicles in park, GET OUT and stand at the drive up ATM...can't get my head around that one. |
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The drive through ABM is one of the most ridiculous drive through concepts out there, just behind drive through Elvis wedding chapels drive through beer stores. How long before the introduction of drive through dental offices, drive through law offices and drive through pharmacies? Honestly, save yourself some gas and park it now and then.
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There's also drive thru Beer Store, now there's the most ridiculous drive thru concept ever.
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At risk of being labelled old-fashioned some things deserve more attention than what one can provide through the rolled down driver-side window. If you are doing your banking from your car then it's likely you are not giving your finances the attention they deserve.
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2) More people driving leads to less pedestrian-friendly communities, worse air quality, less demand for good transit infrastructure (why does it take forever to get from where I live near downtown on a Saturday or Sunday to the Mountain area?), more noise from vehicles, higher temperatures from all the pavement and concrete (a recent post - can't remember where - noted that the temperature is several degrees higher in the city than the countryside), a less healthy population, and all of the aesthetic/economic nastiness that goes along with that. I should add that more people driving also drives (no pun intended) up the price of fuel so that even people who have made an environmentally-conscious decision to get rid of the car end up paying more for food and basic services. 3) If you have to walk by one (heaven forbid!), a bank with a drive thru takes up usually twice as much streetfront space, and is much uglier to look at - the banks downtown are by and large nicer from a pedestrian's perspective. Banks, I'm sure, love the fact that they don't have to hire as many tellers, but those costs end up being extended to taxpayers and consumers anyways - they have to pay to insure and fuel their vehicles, and everybody pays more taxes so that city infrastructure (lights, sewage, policing, etc.) can cover kilometers of highway-side big-box stores and parking lots. 4) I think most people would admit that a city's reputation stands or falls on the reputation of its downtown. Haven't suburban malls and drive-thrus and freeways (and the people who want them - this is a democracy after all) been a huge part of the reason why downtown Hamilton is what it is? Of course, if you have the money to live in an air-filtered house and drive an air-conditioned car, and happen to like the way giant, mostly-empty parking lots look, happen to own a bank with a drive-thru or a paving company, dislike the very idea of downtowns, or simply have little or no conscience regarding passing all of these environmental, economic and health problems onto your children, grandchildren, the poor, etc., I wouldn't expect any of this to bother you.:) |
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And Geoff you're right, nature is evil and yucky! |
markbarbera--living under a rock? Drive-thru pharmacies are common. I would also add that considering the use of a drive-thru ATM to be somehow an indicator of fiscal irresponsibility is a ludicrous extrapolation. I don't often use them to be honest--they frustrate me--I have long arms and still struggle to reach most of them--let alone inevitably being behind someone who's either out of their car standing at the machine or has pulled up to the damn thing completely unprepared and spends 5 minutes rooting through their wallet. However, I do use them on occasion, park on occasion--and, believe it or not, go to the bank quite often when I'm out on a walk or run...
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It about Tim's open a few store with driven-thrus!
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I do not get your last paragraph. An "air-filtered" house? Are you implying, that as a downtown resident, I should be living in a slum? A crackhouse? Please explain your point. I make money and do own a car (it's even "air-filtered") and enjoy the amenities of downtown, suburban and rural areas. |
My beef is with drive-thrus in general - I detest all drive-thrus equally.
Although some drive-thrus take up less space than others, they all encourage people to idle their cars while they wait for those in front of them. My beef is also with the way drive-thrus encourage an exaggerated car-culture generally. I don't recall mentioning a slum or crackhouse. Like many people, I live in an older rental suite in a nice neighborhood near downtown and, because I don't have central heating, the air in my living space is essentially no different from the air outside. I don't live in a slum or crackhouse. I did not mention an air-filtered car either.:D |
I hate drive through atms. People stand up to use them because most are impossible to reach from inside cars.
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I also find Kunstler to be a member of the Curmudgeon School of small 'c' conservatism. He pretty much hates anything and everything post-war (WWI, that is). Always a fun read though, even when I disagree with him, which isn't often - I'm a curmudgeon too. |
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