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> Of course it helps that I live in Copenhagen, with excellent bike infrastructure and good public transport, and that I live alone with no kids. It helps mass

> Of course it helps that I live in Copenhagen, with excellent bike infrastructure and good public transport, and that I live alone with no kids. It helps massively. I've only been in the US for 4 months of my life, doing everything by car is horrible.

teekert 3y ago
I tried to get food at night in Texas without car, a colleague was questioned for walking along the road and the Wendy's personnel slammed all he hatches of the drive through screaming: "There's a camera on you!!!", granted, it's a drive through, but there was no walk through. On a conference in Galveston TA, someone told me they went to a drive through funeral... I saw drive through pharmacies and drive through ATMs. It's a special place.
- toyg 3y ago
  > a colleague was questioned for walking along the road That scene in the first Rambo, when he gets "picked up" by the police while just walking along a road, is fairly realistic. You're not supposed to be walking along roads, if you do there must be something wrong with you.
  - sudobash1 3y ago
    This is also the plot of Ray Bradbury's short story "The Pedestrian." Another example of an (unfortunately) relatable Ray Bradbury story.
- chasd00 3y ago
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- nervousvarun 3y ago
  My favorite is the drive through daiquiri places you'll see just next door to Tx in Louisiana: Yes...you read that right. A drive-through business selling you alcoholic beverages. https://www.thekitchn.com/the-drive-thru-daiquiri-a-weird-yet-wonderful-new-orleans-tradition-241670 https://www.thekitchn.com/the-drive-thru-daiquiri-a-weird-ye...
- FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
  During COVID, some fast food places closed their dining rooms, keeping only their drive-"thrus" open. I once tried to walk through one of these, and was denied service at the window. I didn't make a fuss about it, but I was thinking -- I'm right here talking to you; I am offering you money in exchange for goods and services; there is literally nothing that is stopping me from handing you payment right now or from you giving me my food; but you won't do it because... why?
  - devilbunny 3y ago
    A person in a car can't jump through the service window faster than the employee can close it. A person on foot might. Cameras also work better against cars - even if they have no license plates, you can get a make, model, and approximate year. A pedestrian might go any which way after robbing the store; a car has to stick to paved surfaces.
    - tacheiordache 3y ago
      Telling you to step back a few feet could solve the problem. I had this issue where I had to get a covid test in Orlando and we walked there but they were expecting to come in a car. I ordered an Uber for that, just to sit in the car in a drive through. The whole experience was ridiculous.... The hotel we were staying at was just 5 minutes and we initially said let's just walk.
      - devilbunny 3y ago
        It doesn't solve the problem of how you pay them (which would be feasibly fixed with contactless methods) or get your food without exposing the employees - very few (if any) drive-through restaurants have a sliding drawer that they can use to exchange payment methods or the ordered food, the way that banks and pharmacies do.
        FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
        This makes no sense, because what do the car drivers do? You're about three feet away from a person either way. They're handing you cash or a credit card either way. The only difference is that one is sitting in a vehicle with the window open, and the other is on their own two feet. Any difference in "exposure" is completely psychological, maybe due to some perception that the person in the car is "in another room". But there's no less physical contact. Sure, I'll give a pass for some degree of paranoia at the time -- lots of us were uselessly Clorox(TM)-wiping our groceries -- though, we were well past the peak when this happened -- but at this point we all know that worrying about surfaces is almost completely pointless. So all this "contactless" stuff is just a bunch of technology providers and payment networks trying to ride in opportunistically on peoples' fears. Which, mercifully, have subsided along with most of the threat.
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teekert 3y ago

I tried to get food at night in Texas without car, a colleague was questioned for walking along the road and the Wendy's personnel slammed all he hatches of the drive through screaming: "There's a camera on you!!!", granted, it's a drive through, but there was no walk through. On a conference in Galveston TA, someone told me they went to a drive through funeral... I saw drive through pharmacies and drive through ATMs. It's a special place.

toyg 3y ago
> a colleague was questioned for walking along the road That scene in the first Rambo, when he gets "picked up" by the police while just walking along a road, is fairly realistic. You're not supposed to be walking along roads, if you do there must be something wrong with you.
- sudobash1 3y ago
  This is also the plot of Ray Bradbury's short story "The Pedestrian." Another example of an (unfortunately) relatable Ray Bradbury story.
chasd00 3y ago
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nervousvarun 3y ago
My favorite is the drive through daiquiri places you'll see just next door to Tx in Louisiana: Yes...you read that right. A drive-through business selling you alcoholic beverages. https://www.thekitchn.com/the-drive-thru-daiquiri-a-weird-yet-wonderful-new-orleans-tradition-241670 https://www.thekitchn.com/the-drive-thru-daiquiri-a-weird-ye...
FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
During COVID, some fast food places closed their dining rooms, keeping only their drive-"thrus" open. I once tried to walk through one of these, and was denied service at the window. I didn't make a fuss about it, but I was thinking -- I'm right here talking to you; I am offering you money in exchange for goods and services; there is literally nothing that is stopping me from handing you payment right now or from you giving me my food; but you won't do it because... why?
- devilbunny 3y ago
  A person in a car can't jump through the service window faster than the employee can close it. A person on foot might. Cameras also work better against cars - even if they have no license plates, you can get a make, model, and approximate year. A pedestrian might go any which way after robbing the store; a car has to stick to paved surfaces.
  - tacheiordache 3y ago
    Telling you to step back a few feet could solve the problem. I had this issue where I had to get a covid test in Orlando and we walked there but they were expecting to come in a car. I ordered an Uber for that, just to sit in the car in a drive through. The whole experience was ridiculous.... The hotel we were staying at was just 5 minutes and we initially said let's just walk.
    - devilbunny 3y ago
      It doesn't solve the problem of how you pay them (which would be feasibly fixed with contactless methods) or get your food without exposing the employees - very few (if any) drive-through restaurants have a sliding drawer that they can use to exchange payment methods or the ordered food, the way that banks and pharmacies do.
      - FooBarBizBazz 3y ago
        This makes no sense, because what do the car drivers do? You're about three feet away from a person either way. They're handing you cash or a credit card either way. The only difference is that one is sitting in a vehicle with the window open, and the other is on their own two feet. Any difference in "exposure" is completely psychological, maybe due to some perception that the person in the car is "in another room". But there's no less physical contact. Sure, I'll give a pass for some degree of paranoia at the time -- lots of us were uselessly Clorox(TM)-wiping our groceries -- though, we were well past the peak when this happened -- but at this point we all know that worrying about surfaces is almost completely pointless. So all this "contactless" stuff is just a bunch of technology providers and payment networks trying to ride in opportunistically on peoples' fears. Which, mercifully, have subsided along with most of the threat.

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