57 Funny, Strange, Creepy, And Otherwise Memorable Drive-Thru Stories Shared By People In This Online Community

ShimmeringIce said:
"One lady came through the McDonald's drive-thru and instead of a golden retriever or lab poking its head up from the back seat of the minivan, there was a pony just chilling, munching on carrots or something. It was a bright spot in my day."

bird1979 replied:
"People use those miniature horses as therapy service animals. Like a seeing-eye dog or dogs for veterans and others with PTSD. I think it would be cool but there would be so much poop!"

"A goat. In a sweater."

"I worked at a Taco Bell back in high school and this obviously very rich guy came by weekly in his convertible, Hawaiin shirt, and a blow-up doll in the passenger seat. One time he had the usual passenger seat one and two in the back, and I asked him what the occasion was. He said, "Fourth of July, duh!"

It was May??"

"I had a regular who would come through and he had a full wolf in the back of his truck. Not like a dog that was wolf-like, but a full-blown fresh-out-of-the-wild wolf. She was really sweet though. She apparently had a brain condition where she didn't really know she was a wolf that had to be aggressive to survive, so he found her and took care of her. I think about her regularly. We would feed her plain Timbits. The best part of working at Tim Horton's in high school."

"Someone in a tiny car had three great Danes and about seven Chihuahuas with them."

balancedroses said:
"A car pulls up, and all 4 people are just completely naked, just casually chilling."

Natesalt replied:
"There are a surprising amount of stories here that involve naked people."

Reddit user said:
"Guy had his parrot on his shoulder. It tried to bite me when I handed him his change."

Leash_Me_Blue replied:
"If the bird's name was Jaques and had laser eyes, I know the guy."

"I saw a drunk person ordering, and he asked for 2 large fries, a chicken sandwich, 4 large salads, and 2 small lemonades. I asked why he needed that much food, and he said it was for the kids in his basement."

"The driver had a comically large dildo in the passenger seat. He'd buckled it in and put a hat on it."

"I worked a drive-through at Arby's and a DEA agent came through in his squad car. When he pulled up to the window and I handed him his food and he thanked me, turned around into the criminal holding area, and screamed "SHUT UP BEFORE I BREAK YOUR NOSE!"

I was clearly mortified. Then he turned back to me and said "just kidding there's nobody back there", laughed, and drove off."

Minty_beard said:
"When I was working at DQ in high school I remember a woman coming through the drive-thru with a shotgun sitting in the passenger seat(riding shotgun if you will). She had 3 teardrop tattoos. Naturally, we made sure her order was correct."

oldgeezerguy replied:
"You better not skimp on those peanut butter cups in my blizzard!"

L_Rayquaza said:
"Either the guy sitting with a dog in his passenger seat and a coyote and a deer chilling in the back, or the woman wearing just a bra, but that one is more traumatizing."

throwaway61369 replied:
"Were the coyote and deer alive?"

L_Rayquaza replied:
"Yeah, from what he said he raised them from when they were young together."

BoltzTV said:
"I worked at a Tim Hortons and once saw an old lady with like 50 cartons of eggs in her car, I made a joke saying "looks like you could make your own breakfast" and she got real straight-faced and said, "oh honey those aren't eggs". Still have zero clue what else you would store in egg cartons..."

Reddit user replied:
"The fact she said “oh honey” before “those aren’t eggs” makes me feel like they’re something terrible."

NetDork said:
"Someone pulled a gun on my brother because the salsa containers weren't completely full. You can get as many as you want for no extra charge."

Eggsegret replied:
"Damn that person must really love salsa I guess."

stupidsofttees replied:
"Probably loves guns more."

PsyPup said:
"Someone threw a fish at me once. Didn't order anything, just a drive-by fish attack."

BrightFadedDog replied:
"What sort of fish? Like a rancid sardine, or a full salmon that went straight to the bbq?"

PsyPup replied:
"Just a little tiny bait fish, I think they'd been fishing and wanted to show off the biggest fish they'd ever seen."

"I worked at Taco Bell a while back, and the most memorable/strangest thing I saw come through the drive-through was an elderly man, probably late 50s or early 60s. He had a large, loaded glass bong buckled in the passenger seat. Told him it smelled good in there and he responded, "It always smells good where I am". What a badass, I'll never forget that."

MomoPeachBear said:
"Only worked drive-through for a year but the weirdest thing I saw was an alpaca in a minivan. They asked at the window if they could order some apple slices for the alpaca. I just gave them two packs on the house."

TotallyWitchin replied:
"I worked with a gal who had llamas and she would transport them by minivan too. Haha."

"Just today I saw a man with easily 60 plushies in his back, and front seat, he was very sweet, very obviously had some mental disability, but was an absolute pleasure to help."

"I was working at a McDonald's drive-through in a small town in Michigan. This truck goes through, pays, and pulls forward to get its meal. Then a chicken jumps out of the back. I yell for the next car in line to stop, but she looks confused and ends up running over the chicken. It's not dead but it's a wreck. She looks at me and we're both in tears. She says she has to and I say "no". She puts it on reverse and backs over the chicken again. Another employee had to get a shovel and scoop up the dead chicken from the drive-thru."

intothepizzaverse said:
"I worked at Domino's and one lady used a hand-crocheted blanket to keep her pizzas warm. Kept the blanket in the front seat and draped it over the boxes. I crochet, so I know how much work went into that blanket..."

JustAFictionNerd replied:
"Are you sure it was specifically for the pizzas? My dad used to keep a blanket in the car in case anyone got cold, but we also at least once used it to cover food."