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Star Member MineralMan (131,346 posts)https://democraticunderground.com/100213398679The Stimulus check for my wife and me arrivedon Monday about 1 PM. I filled out a deposit slip and headed for the bank right after the mail came.I have never seen the drive-through banking lanes so full. There were at least 24 cars lined up to access the services. I considered waiting until the next day, but stayed in the line. The large branch bank office near me has 8 drive-through lanes, plus two ATM drive-through lanes. There was a line backed up at all of them.As I waited, I wondered if everyone in the line had just gotten their stimulus check. That could be, I thought, but it was also the first Monday of the month, so there might well have been paychecks and other checks people were depositing.After about half an hour, it was my turn. I put my check and deposit slip in the canister and sent it up through the tube to the teller. While I waited, I used some Purell on my hands, since who knows who handled it before.The cheerful, chirpy teller came on the screen after a minute and said, "There sure have been a lot of those checks coming in today." So, my question was answered without asking. Apparently a bunch of them arrived in people's mailboxes on May 4. I pulled ahead to let the next person in line drive up, and then sanitized my hands again before driving off.As an aside, though, I'm still wondering why people just sit there in their cars after their transaction is complete, slowly putting paperwork back in their wallets or purses, and doing whatever else it is that they do before driving away. What an inefficient process! All a person would have to do would be to drive forward about 20 feet and then do their rearranging before driving off. That would let the next person drive up to the drive-through terminal. That's a pet peeve of mine.
Star Member The Velveteen Ocelot (82,685 posts) 3. As to your last remark: it's because people are oblivious.Back in the old days when more people used checks, I recall more than one instance of standing in a long line at a checkout counter while the customer at the cashier appeared to be carefully and leisurely balancing his/her checking account after paying.
Star Member MineralMan (131,346 posts) 5. Oh, I know. It's the same everywhere.Back in the day, I used to be frustrated by people who waited until they got their total at the supermarket to take their checkbook out of their purse and start to write a check. Then, of course, they'd take time to put the receipt in their purse, after the transaction, and maybe rearrange some other things in there.There are many frustrations caused by people who appear to be unaware of those waiting behind them. Sometimes, it's just absent-mindedness. Sometimes is passive aggression. Either way, patience is needed.My very least favorite example in that regard is going through the Taco Bell drive-through line. The person in the car in front of me is always someone who has apparently never ordered takeout from a Taco Bell before, and has no idea what they want to order. So, they study the menu on the display, and gesture toward it as they order each individual item, as though someone can see them pointing at the item on the menu. Meanwhile, the line gets longer and longer behind them, while they remain oblivious. I suspect that, in most cases, they order the same exact items they ordered the last time they were there, anyhow.
bobbieinok (11,617 posts) 15. Check receipt, count money before driving away so can get immediate help if there's mistakeGot $20 too little once!
Coventina (21,236 posts) 19. Yeah, well, you are just being selfish, apparently.
Star Member GeorgeGist (22,484 posts) 21. Some folks (like me) like to assure themselves that all is accurate ...before leaving the window.
Who the eff in this day and age, still does this?? Seriously, is Mineralman in the 80's?
MineralMan (131,395 posts)At the Taco Bell Drive-Through [View all] Enough. After two months of my making meals at home, my wife said "Taco Bell! I want two crunchy tacos supreme and a bean burrito." I thought about it, and figured out a decontamination plan. Gloves, mask, and multiple hand sanitizations. I set out for the local drive-through. Four cars were ahead of me in the line, but things were moving quickly, and soon I was speaking my order to the disembodied voice from the speaker. Then, I continued around to the window, debit card in hand. Unlike earlier visits, the masked and gloved worker held out a chip reader box at arms length. I inserted my debit card, and removed it when prompted. Another worker wearing gloves put a sealed bag containing my order on a cafeteria tray, and the cashier held the tray out so I could take the bag. I pulled forward far enough to let the next car pull forward and sanitized my gloved hands and drove home. In the kitchen, I removed and disposed of my gloves and carefully unwrapped and plated the food items after washing my hands, and then sanitized my hands again before handing my wife her plate and taking mine. Taco Bell has come up with a reasonably safe method of handling drive through service. I feel pretty comfortable with it. No worse than buying groceries at the supermarket, really.
Why does he think anyone is interested in the mundane details of his life? From yesterday:https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=13406203Does he really think anyone cares that he went to the bank and Taco Bell? And why does he think describing every little bit of minutiae adds any value to the topic? He claims that he's spent most his career working as an independent writer and has lamented that it didn't pay very well. I wonder if he ever did a little self-evaluation of his writing style to try to figure out why people weren't willing to pay a lot for his work products.
Minnesota Moses must have had a rather, uh, exciting life.Remember, he's been married four times.
Did he bore the other 3 to death?
