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Pay for the car behind you
Topic Started: Sep 21 2016, 02:42 PM (164 Views)
Riley
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Several times in the last few weeks I've heard references to people paying for the order of the car behind them at the drivethru.

Have you ever done this?
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TomK
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(Without sounding like the usual (Larry I own ten McDonalds) I never did that--but I will do that in the future.

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Mikhailoh
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Nope. Never have. Did have a rather expensive dinner paid for by a stranger a year or so ago.
Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead - Lucille Ball
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Axtremus
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Mikhailoh
Sep 21 2016, 05:28 PM
Nope. Never have. Did have a rather expensive dinner paid for by a stranger a year or so ago.
May be McDonald's PR gambit to get gamblers to order big hoping that the car in front would foot their bills. :devilgrin:
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sue
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Nope, but then I can't remember the last time I've been through a drive-through.

Once though, many years ago, on Christmas eve, the person ahead of me at the ferry terminal paid my fare. It was pitch black, pouring rain, we got sent to different lanes...so I never knew who it was. But it turned what had been a pretty crappy day (was working retail) into one where I saw the good, and the magic, in people again.
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Horace
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I think it would feel presumptuous to pay for some random person's food. At worst, insulting.
As a good person, I implore you to do as I, a good person, do. Be good. Do NOT be bad. If you see bad, end bad. End it in yourself, and end it in others. By any means necessary, the good must conquer the bad. Good people know this. Do you know this? Are you good?
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Axtremus
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Horace
Sep 21 2016, 08:21 PM
I think it would feel presumptuous to pay for some random person's food. At worst, insulting.
Go ahead and insult the car behind you that way. You'll be long gone by the time he figures out he's been insulted, and there'll be nothing he can do about it. :devilgrin:
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sue
Sep 21 2016, 06:08 PM
But it turned what had been a pretty crappy day (was working retail) into one where I saw the good, and the magic, in people again.
:smile:

Maybe that's why they paid.
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Catseye
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Sep 21 2016, 08:45 PM
Horace
Sep 21 2016, 08:21 PM
I think it would feel presumptuous to pay for some random person's food. At worst, insulting.
Go ahead and insult the car behind you that way. You'll be long gone by the time he figures out he's been insulted, and there'll be nothing he can do about it. :devilgrin:

Yes; and you wouldn't have to witness his hurling the food out of his car in rage at having been so diminished by a random stranger.

Probably ruined his life.
"How awful a knowledge of the truth can be." -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
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sue
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Catseye
Sep 21 2016, 10:45 PM
Axtremus
Sep 21 2016, 08:45 PM
Horace
Sep 21 2016, 08:21 PM
I think it would feel presumptuous to pay for some random person's food. At worst, insulting.
Go ahead and insult the car behind you that way. You'll be long gone by the time he figures out he's been insulted, and there'll be nothing he can do about it. :devilgrin:

Yes; and you wouldn't have to witness his hurling the food out of his car in rage at having been so diminished by a random stranger.

Probably ruined his life.
well surely he'd sue, wouldn't he?
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Aqua Letifer
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At a restaurant job some years back—in fact this was the best job I ever had—we had to do catering for an event held at the nearby University. Usually, we were only open late nights, so my schedule then was to wake up around 7PM and start my day. Well, this event started at 8 AM, so after a full day of working (8PM to 4AM), my co-workers and I had to then work from 4AM to 7AM to prepare food for this stupid event. Then we had to deliver the stuff, and, according to the owner of the place, "be on call" in case they needed anything else throughout the day. He was driving in from his home out-of-state just to micro-manage.

This is the same owner who told us point blank that we'd definitely be open in the summer when the university closed, no problem. "Oh no, you will all keep your jobs." Too bad he forgot to reroute his mail; we received notice about the shutdown of the store's utilities about a week later.

So we stayed, made the stuff, delivered it, and then walked into the bar across the street. (This was at about 9 AM.) Spent all day there. Drank a lot. We ordered all the weird shit, every drink the bartender could think up that no one ever orders. We received several calls throughout the day both from the venue and our boss. We said we're sorry to be away, but we cordially invited them all to join us. (No one took us up.)

By about 4PM, our bill was something like $987.

At the time, none of us even had $987, or even our share of what was owed. (I was playing fun games with myself at the time like "do I eat food today or pay for gas?" I know my co-workers were all in similar situations; we were all doing food exchanges with restaurants in the area whenever we could.) 'Cept for one guy, who had a credit card his dad gave him "in the case of emergencies."

We pooled all of our cards together and asked our waitress to help us play a game of roulette. Out of eight cards, that freaking kid's was the one that came up.

His dad was plenty pissed, but we told him, hey, he lived three timezones away; what's he gonna do, spend even more money to fly out here and give you a hard time?

His dad called him up awhile later, right when we got to work. He put the call on speakerphone just so we could hear.

"I'm going to kill you, Rob!" was a common catchphrase for the remaining three weeks we were open.
I cite irreconcilable differences.
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