Drive-Thru Workers, What's the Weirdest Customer You've Had?

drive through workers of reddit what's the weirdest encounter you've had while working the window working at mcdonald's my sophomore year of high school some lady went through the drive-through at about 1am someone accidentally gave her a large diet coke instead of a large coke or something so she threw the drink back through the window the drink landed quite heavily in the fry oil and splashed all over one of our co-workers the girl drove away pretty fast but the manager got her license plate number off the cameras she was sued pretty badly knowing that she was sued makes me happy i work at tim hortons one night guy pulls up to the window as i take his money i think i saw his dong in his hand but i wasn't completely sure since it was dark i already took his 20 bill and i owe him his change so this time when i opened the window i looked down at his lap sure enough he is masturbating except his penis wasn't even erect he was just jerking this small floppy penis i froze for a few seconds then gave him his change and said have a good night and shut the window it's a form of exhibitionism happens quite a bit actually i worked in mcdonald's before going to university to help pay for things as my foster parents didn't really have the means to help me much anyway there was this one man who came through the driver through late 30s clearly a farmer from his vehicle and dog in the back he was always nice enough pretty quiet and i remember a couple of times that he tried to make nice small talk when i worked either side of new year's he asked me how things were and said i should be out having fun my age asked if my christmas was good and all that i remember thinking he always seemed real lonely or was sad when he drove through and tried to carry conversation with me i felt bad having to be quick with him and dart off because he just seemed like he wanted someone to talk to long story short he drove through one day and asked if my last name was what he thought it was after a sideways glance from my manager i said it was he looked real sad and took his hat off said that he reckoned he was my dad my bio mother didn't know who my dad was she slept around as a teen then got pregnant with me so it was possible my manager let me go on break so over my dinner he explains that he slept with my mother around the time that she got pregnant he was only 16. he was really apologetic kind of seemed ashamed and said he said he was real sorry he didn't seek me out make sure i wasn't his that sort of thing he was from a town about an hour's drive away so that was a part of it and no one ever showed up to tell him he was a dad or anything i told him i was happy with my life gave him my number and told him to give me a bell sometime and yeah that's how i met my dad my bio dad i should say after a few years when i heard from my bio mother again she said that yeah he was who she thought the father was the other two guys she was sleeping with were black and i ain't we went out for coffee three or four times but we didn't have much to talk about he and i never really maintained contact the last time we spoke he told me he'd been diagnosed with ms he had a couple of sons but i was his only daughter and he said that he was grateful we had met he's still got my number somewhere tl dr met my father for the first time in the drive-through yes i would like feels with that had a man and woman come through and order they get to the window and he falls asleep in the 60 seconds he is sitting there the lady wakes him up and he pays then before we could hand his food out to him we noticed his truck started to roll i get to the window in time to see the truck scraping the building he got onto the highway woke up and floored it he came back 30 minutes later and ordered something completely different he didn't know that he had been by kfc already manager called cops and we kept him in the drive-through until they got there was working at mcdonald's presenting a few weeks ago and this lady comes to pick up a milkshake and she says to me you're doing a great job keep it up and proceeds to hand me a small fluffy toy snake i closed the window and started laughing so hard there's a snake in my booth i was working at a tim hortons in newfoundland when i was 15 a guy comes up to the speaker box orders his coffee and then i heard a weird noise that sounded like an elephant he approaches the window lo and behold there is a baby elephant in the back of his pickup at the drive-through on an island in canada i was so confused but just couldn't bring up the elephant in the room or pick up bed i guess had to take the truck not enough trunk space this isn't really weird but i felt completely awful i used to work at tim hortons and when i had to work on the window i would barely ever look at it if it was crazy busy i'm six minus two for me to look out of the window i basically have to double over and look through it was so low anyways one time i was really distracted and i took the person's money and didn't look and handed the coffee out the window and let go when i felt a hand grab the cup immediately i heard oh crap so i look out the window and the guy has nubs for fingers and is waving his hand back and forth trying to get control of the cup enough to bring it in his car i apologize profusely and he leaves after a couple minutes i had some old guy and his granddaughters around christmas singing christmas carols beside the speaker because we were lined up and really busy he must not have known the speaker still picks up noise while the person is idling there but it put a smile on all the workers faces not really the weirdest but the best so i'm working the drive through at maki's and this dude pulls up and orders an ice cream cone i'm surprised because he's actually nice to me and i suspect that he's a bit high i leave to get the ice cream and when i get back to the window he's holding up a five dollar bill dude look what i just found on the ground that's awesome wish i had that luck as my shoulders sag a little closer to the ground hey how about you take it you'll probably work harder than i do anyway i'm look to see if anyone is watching me quickly snatch the cash and discreetly put it in my pocket i don't think i was allowed to do that but frick the system tldr dude gave me five dollars he found i once worked at a dunkin donuts for a few months until i realized i hated that crappy job once we had a lovely woman pull up at the drive through 20 minutes before open naturally my co-worker and i ignored her while we hurried to set up because without the headset on we had no idea she was even there and there was no way i was putting that thing on a minute earlier that i had to eventually she pulled up to the window with a pee evil looking face we gestured sorry and that we weren't open yet apparently she took it personally and started banging on the glass when we opened the window to explain that we couldn't serve her yet she began cursing and squeezed her fat butt out of the car and hung through the window spewing off insults we just stared in all i think we told her the cops were coming or something and she left she was a crazy bee your story reminded me of this while i was in hs i worked at a coffee shop we had a regular customer who would bang on the door until i opened she often came early we opened at 7am but she would start at 6 45 am she would act like she was in a huge hurry then sit and drink an 80 cent cup of coffee for two hours i worked at mcdonald's for almost two years the strangest incident would have to be the kid who attempted to pay me in pokemon cards by explaining how much each was worth on ebay when i explained to him that his cards could not be used as currency he became upset accused me of being a dirty yugo fan and drove off leaving me confused with both his cards and his food at least you got four dollars and 20 cents in pokemon cards now not while working the window but one fourth of july my then girlfriend and i were at the drive through at mcdonald's and the guy working the window expressed his disappointment that he wasn't able to see the city fireworks we felt bad for him and we gave him a few boxes of sparklers we had so he could light them up after work the guy was ecstatic and his nearby co-workers were happy as well presumably all planning to burn the sparklers with him suddenly the manager comes over pushes through the workers and in a forced voice of politeness asked us what was going on when we told him we felt bad for his workers and gave them some fireworks he said aha in a tone suggesting we were full of crap then proceeded to yell at his crew like there were a bunch of little kids who had gotten into a stranger's van for a promise of candy later i don't know how long we sat there stunned as the manager told them all a new one it wasn't like he said anything coherent just swears and obscenities with nothing to be picked out as to why this had set him off we finally drove off after a minute or two and both of us were quite convinced our attempt to be nice was getting them all fired we never saw any of that crew again when we went back so maybe we did while i'm sure they aren't allowed to have something like that in the building the manager was just being a dong no reason to flip out over someone trying to be nice to some bummed kid at the window a friend of mine works at a dairy queen and was handing out an ice cream cone and the customer asks do you believe in unicorns and my friend is just standing there awkwardly and the guy puts his ice cream directly onto his forehead and yells belly ie even drives off frick i'd give anything to see that i was once working drive through orders and this lady came up the speaker i greeted her and then told her to order whenever she was ready she said that she wasn't going to order anything and that she just needed someone to talk to the customer is always rife so i talked with her about how my day was going and then she told me she has herpes i was dumbstruck this lady probably just found out she had her peers and the only one she could talk to was the drive through guy i was flawed and talked to her for a few minutes and then she said that she had better go unlike the herpes she had never saw her face or even her car i kinda wish i had her come to my window tl doctor woman told me she had herpes ro that's incredibly sad to think she had no one to talk to you probably helped her out by being there i was working the drive-through teller window at the bank one day then a guy pulls up with a fully clothed blow up doll in the passenger seat she was all buckled up and everything i looked at her and then at him and he creepily said it so i can use the carpal lanes oh i told this story about a year ago but here it is again a couple years ago i worked at a drive-through and this guy came around to pay when he got there he asked hey did i say i wanted extra pickles on that because i want extra pickles on that i informed him that his burger was already made and ready to go but offered to have a new one fixed up with a satisfactory amount of pickles the man paused then had a look of realization he looked up and said don't worry about it now that i think about it i think i might have some extra ones right here this valued customer then proceeded to open up his glove compartment and pull out a giant jar of sliced pickles it was weird tl dr man keeps a jar of pickles in his car dude likes his pickles at least he was a nice normal human being i worked at mcdonald's for two years and the strangest thing that happened was when a bunch of teenage boys came through the drive-through in a minivan and ordered an ice cream cone when they pulled up to my window it was night so we were down to one window taking money and hating out food a guy that was laying on the top of the mini van grabbed a cone by the ice cream and they drove off they proceeded to come back through the drive-through and ask if one of them had left a wallet inside tl dr teenage boys are weird that was actually a thing for a while there are a bunch of youtube videos of people doing it i worked at taco bell for four years one of the things that really sticks out in my mind is the group of kids that were rolling a joint in the front seat of the car at the window i opened the window back up and asked them guys aren't you supposed to get taco bell after you do that they all looked at me in fear the other crazy story i have is the day that a drunk driver hit the building right outside the window i was working you have to admire how responsible they were to think ahead and get the food before they got too stoned to drive safely worked at a starbucks through high school and part of university we were supposed to chat up the patrons in the drive-through to make their weight a little more bearable anyway couple comes through and they ask me if you were a dildo what color would you be green duh and then there was this one time another couple came through in a big pickup truck i asked how their day has been and the female responds with i was just released from the hospital i say good to hear you are all better and she then proceeds to tell me she was in a car accident and is paralyzed from the waist down my jaw hits the floor and i am speechless i hand them their drinks wish them off and watch as the wheelchair speeds off in the back of the truck i'll never forget that encounter that made me feel like a piece of crap six am working the starbucks drive through a few four-stroke 20 years ago two guys in their early twenties came by and got for pusinus when they pulled up to the window to pay i saw the passenger literally eating coleslaw out of a bucket i like that you refer to it as four-stroke twenties and not yours when i was in high school i worked at a burger joint at first they'd always put me on the fryer and that fricking sucked the guy who supervised me was joe joe was pretty much a dong and was always yelling at me for some crap way above and beyond new guy crap anyways one day they take me off that son of a bee friar and put me on the window start my shift and crap is going good then near the end of the night this one olay boy rolls back around the drive-thru i open the window and he looks me dead in the eye and says my tots aren't freaking done you stupid piece of crap and throws the bag at me guess who's on the fryer that piece of crap joe so we cooked the guy some more tots and joe somehow blamed that crap on me i worked there like five months did not have much fun good shakes though frick joe okay there's two dang many bad guy stories on here so how about some good guy ones i worked for mcdonald's for three years and here's a few of my favorites we had elvis as a regular well technically an elvis impersonator but still he just came through the drive-through in the morning about once a week and ordered a nice coffee i noticed he happened to look sorta like elvis but didn't say anything until one time he paid with a credit card and i saw the name elvis on there i asked him and apparently he had had his name legally changed to elvis even had it on his driver's license and then there was batman i crap you not he had the outfit a black corvette with a strobe light on top and batman as the license plate number know what he ordered a single bottle of water then he gave me a 20 and said to use a change to pay for whoever was behind him he came through multiple times and once had a girl dressed as catwoman comic book catwoman not movie catwoman thank god in the passenger seat he always did the same thing once that 20 dollars managed to cover four other cars worth of food and i got to tell them all that their order had been paid for by batman fun times and dang his car was cool back when they mattered brian from the backstreet boys came through a wendy's drive through in roswell ga i was an assistant manager in 19 and promptly lost my crap i did get an autograph and a copy of his order his family loves a former big bacon classics and spicy chicken sandwiches oh honey they always mattered haha fangirl for life i had a grandmother ordering for her children once in the drive-thru when i was handing her their food she asked me are you drunk no just tired you want to be i was 14. okay okay true story i was working the drive through at starbucks and i got these trashy people i could tell they were trashy because of how much extra caramel drizzle they wanted on their vanilla beans and when the car pulls up the girl in the passenger seat is giving the guy the driver a hand job his dong was just out in the open they gave zero fricks they were so casual about it like it was totally normal to this day i don't think i fully understand what happened that night thinking back i wish i said when repeating their order back two venti vanilla beans with extra caramel chisel i found a pair of sunglasses at work one day my manager let me act blind to hand out the drinks and food but for only one customer that was funny i guess i had dude driving without arms come through my line at taco bell driving a modified grand prix with his feet it appeared to be a defect he was born with he was even able to count out change and hand it to me with his toes i was 18 at the time and it taught me that the only limits we have are the ones we place on ourselves inspiring i remember working the drive through quite frequently when i was 16 working at mcdonald's this one time a guy pulled up in an old dirty car he looked like he hadn't a bath in days with a skanky much younger fried out looking chick riding passenger he wanted to pay for his order and change and yelled at me to hold his hand out i held my hand out the window for the change he then screamed at me i told you to hold your freaking hand out so i held it out further and kind of had a bewildered what the f look on my face because i didn't understand what i was doing wrong he then sneered don't freaking look at me you be what the frick is your problem stop freaking looking at me like that it was just then my manager happened to walk into the back booth and the guy i noticed him he said is that your manager i nodded and he demanded to talk to him manager walked up to the window the guy immediately starts screaming at the manager you need to fire that fb stop looking at me like that she is the rudest person i have ever met i said stop looking at me like that you be i'm not even sneering at the guy i'm actually becoming a little traumatized at this point because i don't know what i did i just told him his total and tried to reach for his change and after that i don't know my bewildered face must look like the b face of satan or something my manager cashed out the order and told him to go to the next window i could still hear him screaming at the second window about me my manager screamed back at him to please leave or he's calling the police and to never come back at that point i asked to be let on break because my 16 year old self could not handle all that verbal abuse and needed 10 minutes to go to the back and cry working at mcdonald's sucked there was a lot that went down when i worked there though tl dr m not even once i used to work at white castle and there was an adult store next to where i worked i guess after these people went in there they decided to swing by with a huge dildo attached to the roof of their car it was just flopping around clearly excited to see people xd if it was excited it probably wouldn't have been flopping around i was a manager at little caesars in high school and had to work on halloween which turns out to be one of our busiest days after a long day it is about 10 11 p.m and we are getting ready to start closing so me and another guy go out to smoke a cigarette when a cop pulls up i looked pretty young to be smoking but i was 18 and thought the cop wss going to doing a check on me when he gets out he comes over to us and asked if we have cena banana running around the shopping center confuse me and my co-worker kind of look at each other and say no and he proceeds to tell us some guy is running around dressed as a banana flashing people he told us if we saw him that we should rough him up a little bit before calling cause apparently he was targeting kids not me but a story i read somewhere when i was working the drive through at popeyes we would always tend to get this one couple who would come by sure we had plenty of regulars but every employee knew of the human tables there was always the four of them the dad mom sister and brother and they always rolled up to the window with at least three big bags of food from other fast food places not bags of trash but bags of uneaten food we would call them the human tables because they all had their seats all the way back and would use their stomachs as tables the smell was pretty horrid as well didn't seem like they were doing too good a job of disposing their trash from three meals a day of fast food if i lived closer to her popeyes i would probably be a lot like them this was years ago but after a night out a buddy and i decided to grab some late night food from jack in the box this buddy of mine orders for all of us and for some reason right at the end says he doesn't have any cash and that he'll trade beers for tacos i was thinking the drive-through guy was going to tell us to get lost but he just doesn't say anything for about 30 seconds then make it three beers for six tacos we pull up hand the man his three cause lights and get our nasty butt tacos and go oh boy do i have a doozy one time about 15 minutes to close we get a guy drive up and ask for 30 mama burgers canadian a and w for those who don't know it's basically a regular hamburger i cringe at the amount of extra work we're about to have to do but whatever man we're still open so we gotta do it i ask him if he wants cheese on the burgers and his response is i don't freaking care oh crap my supervisor the only other dude up front with me decides that now would be a good time to run and hide in the back go help the back staff with making burgers leaving me all alone to deal with what is no doubt sure to be a very unpleasant individual but what actually happened is not what i would have expected at all i take the guy's money and try and hide around the milkshake machine out of sight just enough room for me to watch him as he starts beating the holy crap out of his own car i'm not kidding he was throwing punches to the windshield as hard as he could then i heard him start throwing stuff out of his window and onto the ground obviously i wasn't getting close enough to see what it was he was throwing out but after he got his food and drove off we looked outside to see that it was car parts that he had smashed that were littering the road the handle on his shifter vents a volume knob and various other bits and pieces i get so confused just thinking about it the dude had to have been on drugs that is the only way i can reconcile car smashing and buying 30 hamburgers in one short period of time my first job was at mcdonald's in a really small hook town in canada it was pretty normal during hunting season to see a pickup truck roll through with a dead deer or moose on the back one time some guy actually drove through with a dead cow yes a chance to tell this story hope i'm not too late my close friend we'll call him genius works at a mcdonald's and was training a new girl on the drive-through who was somewhat lacking in the height department genius had upturned a chip and vat and had her stand on that so she was able to reach customers and take payment after an hour or two she needed her toilet break so genius decided he wanted to try this newfound height system for himself his first customer was a very elderly lady her car gingerly made its way round the corner to the window in her order for a coffee was barely audible however genius remembered his customer service teachings and after a few attempts successfully asked for payment just as trainee girl was making her way back to the booth she watched as genius reached out to take the coins offered the vat skid out from underneath his foot and her superior end up bent backwards like a paper clip between granny's car and his cash till where only his feet remained genius had to clamber down and make his way back through the customer entrance much to the surprise of his manager who thought he was still stationed in window one i hope that my close friend holds the title as the only employee to ever fall out of a mcdonald's window genius if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video so bye for now

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Length: 25min 52sec (1552 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 26 2021