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

"Had a guy come through Tim Hortons in the morning. Go to give him his coffee and he asks me to wait a second. Grabs the beer from his cup holder and chugs the rest of it. Throws it out the open passenger window, takes coffee from my hand, says thank you, and drives away."

Reddit user said:
"Had a customer come through with a giant grandfather clock in the back seat. The thing was so huge it was sticking out the side window, which just so happened to be on the left side of the car. Which meant dude couldn't get close enough to the window to reach his food and had to step out, cursing the whole time."

CW1KKSHu replied:
"Here's your change. Hey, do you happen to know what time it is?"

"A lady, who was a daily regular at a drive-thru Starbucks, kept a 1-gallon bottle of bleach in the car. Every time after handing back her card she would hold it outside her car window and dump bleach all over it before putting it back in her wallet. She also always wore a face mask and disposable gloves. This was in like 2004 too, making her completely stand out."

"Not a thing, but I worked a Pizza Hut drive-thru and saw a lady pick her kid’s nose before reaching into her bra to extract some crumpled, moist money for her food. I hated that job."

"These people came through and asked for a separate toy for their monkey.

And sure enough, a monkey hopped up on the driver's shoulder."

"A glass eye on the dashboard. Sixteen-year-old me nearly fainted."

"A woman came through with "B***H" carved into the side of her minivan. My coworker asked her about it and the lady said her teenage son did it."

"Not the weirdest but most infuriating. Lady took a huge drag off her cigarette and then turned to open her purse. Exhaled all of her smoke on her baby, who was in a car seat, in the front seat. - Before you ask if I made some kind of heroic citizen's arrest. I was 16. It was a long time ago."

partofbreakfast said:
"Two guys were hotboxing and decided to come to the drive-thru. They did not stop smoking even when they pulled up to the window. I swear a cloud of smoke rolled out the window when they lowered it to pay.

They offered me a hit and I politely declined."

BlueNinjaTiger replied:
"That happens fairly often. Sometimes I can smell it from the damn kitchen."

187-MDK said:
"4-foot hookah prepped and ready to go."

jiggycup replied:
"Yo me and a friend used to drive with hookah coals in a lotus bowl, stupid s**t man idk how the bowl just never fell and burned us and the car."

itsJussaMe said:
"Saw a car riddled with bullet holes. The occupants were actively messing with handguns as they came through. We did not mess up their order."

Catsrules replied:
"I guess that is one way to get excellent service."

"Many years ago, as a 16-year-old girl, I worked the drive-thru at McDonald's. A white van with black curtains on the windows pulls up & two men in uniform pay for their order. I see that it’s marked as a prison van from our local penitentiary. The line is stalled up ahead and not moving. During the wait, I am casually peeking behind the driver to see who or what may be onboard. Suddenly, a prisoner in the back moves the black curtain aside and proceeds to shake his head from side to side, screaming & wagging his tongue and just genuinely acting crazy, all while in cuffs. I about jumped out of my skin, scared the c**p out of me! The guard who was driving could not stop laughing. I could hear the roaring laughter of the whole van. They pulled forward and got their fries, and I tried to never be so nosy again!"

NetBelleAnie said:
"As a driver, I like to keep a skeleton in my car, buckled up. I like getting the employees to laugh since I can't really decorate the outside of my home."

charlie_ritchie replied:
"I have a skeleton that has been my passenger for a couple of years. Most of the jokes are about forgetting to feed him..."

"Was working the drive-thru at Hardee's as my first job. It's about 10 pm on a Friday night and someone comes into the drive-thru. They order a strawberry malt. As part of my "scripting," I ask if they want to add 2 apple turnovers for $.99. They gleefully agree! Cool! "Your total is $3.14, pull to the next window."

And they didn't. They were laughing. And there was lots of noise. And the noise continued and there was more laughing. Tentatively, I poked my head out of the window and saw 6 high school kids carrying a sofa. They hauled the sofa to the window and asked me to dump the milkshake all over the sofa. Whatever, they paid for it so I enjoyed it! When I gave them the pies they proceeded to smash them and smear them all over the sofa. Then they carried it to the parking lot and loaded it onto a truck and drove away."

"I was working the drive-thru at Burger King in a snowstorm. The driver orders a coke with no ice. When I hand them the coke, they empty it a bit, break off a couple of icicles hanging from the car, put in the coke, and drive off without saying a word."

Voiceisaweapon said:
"The entire car was filled with trash. Like legitimately up to the ceiling in the back seat and up to shoulder height in the passenger seat. I was so stunned I nearly forgot to give them their food."

OozeNAahz replied:
"Worked in IT with a guy whose car was like that. Had seen the car in the parking lot many times but was like a year before I saw him get in it. He was nuts but didn’t realize he was that kind of nuts. And he sat one cube away."

2007_RX-8 said:
"It was either the 12-year-old driving or the lady in a right-hand drive car. The fact she had the audacity to get mad at me because I couldn't reach her money..."

PotatoWizzard replied:
"Honestly, the twelve-year-old driving isn't that surprising. I see kids that are way too young to be driving behind the wheel all the time. They are driving farm trucks for their parents but still, have the same principal. Not all that uncommon in very rural areas."