Just need to vent...

I order two cones for me and the wife at the drive thru lane at the ice cream parlor. The car in front of me apparently ordered dinners and desserts for the entire softball team....

 

Skip the drive-in....
I don't use them myself because fast food has gotten HORRIBLY expensive in today's economy - which makes local eateries and food trucks the baller move.
Every now and again I will get my sweet wife a "cookie in a cup" decaf from the Mac Shack.
If there are more than 3 cars in line I park and walk in, and more often than not I will beat the last car in the drive through out of the parking lot.
AND I get to exchange pleasantries with an actual human being rather than talking to a drive through board.
It's a Southern thing.

IYKYK.

 

Nothing like the window for those awkward conversations though.

 

Mainly rural area. No Sonic or similar drive-in within 40 miles. Not wasting that much fuel for an ice cream...

 

I think I'd have done less 'restoring', if I could get it to do the job and still look 95 years old.

And shellac on the handles. "Gloss urethane"? Fie.

 

+1

 

Self checkout devolves into a whole new level of horror during international events.

I was in two stores today, both had self-checkouts. Every single kiosk/shopper pair was having a problem, and this poor kid was just sprinting between stations. He'd scan some barcode that identified himself as an administrator, punch a couple of buttons on the touchscreen, and run off to the next. It seemed to take two visits for me to get checked out. My credit card is the old chip kind (no NFC) and apparently this causes the system to demand a signature on paper, which is exceptional enough that it stalls out the entire process.

Not that I was made to sign anything, the kid just ignored that demand and told me it was okay. Or at least I think that's what he said.

A second store I went to had a similar problem. At that one, a few shoppers had abandoned their checkouts partway through, but the kiosks needed staff attention to reset them for the next customer in the queue

None of this was made any easier by the fact that all of the shoppers (including me) were tourists from all over the world, not many languages in common.

 

Anyone locally posting about which stores work and which ones don't?
Gotta love it when the community has debuggged the tech before the big event instead of after it.