How Fast Is Fast?

I realize that all of us have a different standard of "fast". How do I know? Because when I tell my kids to get going "and fast" it is blatantly obvious to me that their perception of what they are doing is fast, but to me it is at a snails pace! Ugh!

While I realize that kids like to stop and smell the roses, and yes there are times that I do to, I would expect that the average adult would not be sniffing them in the McDonalds FAST FOOD drive thru! While in the drive thru yesterday I was going to grab a quick lunch and head to my next destination, expecting that since I didn't have a whole lot of time Micky Ds would be my best solution. So I pulled in....

There was a line of about 4 cars, but hey, it is 4 cars in a drive thru line. These people are ALL wanting to be somewhere else, or they would have stopped in and had a bite. Right?

The line moved quickly at first but then the lady in front of me in the cream colored Ford Edge somehow lost her train of thought. Not while she was ordering, but there must have been something in her car that was ULTRA intriguing because she forgot she was in line! She sat there while everyone else moved up. I was thinking well SURELY she will move up. Then after a moment, my thoughts went to "Do we honk in a drive thru line? Would that work? If I did would she come out of the car and stomp me?" Hmmm- anyway, she FINALLY figured it out and pulled up.

There are 2 ordering windows at this McDs, so she went to the first one. I pulled up to my window said "Number 3 no cheese and a large coke." I was ready to go!! But WAIT!!!! Old Ms. Ford Edge apparently had no idea what she was going to be ordering. She sat there and then chatted with 'person in the speaker' for a while and then finally pulled up. Now by this point most humans know what is coming next. I think my 4 year old could go step by step in a drive thru line and be prepared for the next part. But Ms. Ford Edge seemed quite surprised that in fact at her next stop she would be asked to get money out and pay! What? You need money? I thought this was a free food line?!?....

Well she again finally found some spare change and paid for her food, but you guessed it. She wasn't prepared and I waited yet again for her to figure out this next step in the oh so very complicated drive thru process! What do I do with this strange liquid in a cup that you just gave me?!? UGH!! PEOPLE! I know there is a learning curve to things, but I also know that if this is the first time you have done something DO SOME RESEARCH so you don't annoy those around you.

I finally got my meal, and although I didn't time it, I'm pretty sure I ate faster than it took me in line. I hope Ms. Ford Edge will learn that fast food actually is trying to do what it says....get you food FAST! And while I know that we all have a wide variety of what fast is, I can't imagine that what she did would even be considered by the 'slows' to be fast!!!