The Strangest Real Life Stories From the Drive-Through

The drive-through is supposed to be a simple experience: make your order, pay your money, grab your food. Things don’t always go according to plan, though, as is made clear in these real life stories of bizarre drive-through experiences.

Spare a thought for the poor fast food workers who had to deal with these ridiculous situations.

Splash Zone

Working at McDonalds my sophomore year of high school, some lady went through the drive through at about 1 AM. 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. Story credit: Reddit / Rebelpride1

Dinner in Bed

Once, someone drove a truck to the window with a bed in the back. Another person got out, put the bed next to the window, and ordered their food, sitting on the bed to wait. The driver left. After receiving her food the bed woman carried the bed to a parking space, got in, and ate. Story credit: Reddit / [deleted]

The Muffin Fairy

My wife worked at Tim Hortons in college, while we were dating, and she was stuck with the overnight shift. One night a couple of drunk guys came in and one of them ordered two chocolate chip muffins. The other guy was too drunk to order.

The drunker of the two ends up passing out in the doorway while waiting for the muffin guy. Muffin guy gets his order, walks over to his friend, takes the muffins out of the bag and crumbles them up, sprinkling the crumbs over his friend exclaiming “I’m the muffin fairy!” Story credit: Reddit / SabreGuy2121

Waffle Hat

I was out in the car-park taking care of bins when a big bulky family car that had just been through the drive thru started circling and revving profusely. It caught my attention because it wasn’t like it was a sports car and I didn’t get why he was revving.

I soon found out it was because his kid had gotten the wrong topping on his Ice cream, which he yelled through the window at me as he slammed into park right by me. His little kid threw the ice cream at me, ruining my uniform. I was pretty angry so I picked it back up and threw it back at the car.

As it was sailing it’s creamy way toward the car again it suddenly dawned on me that this guy might get out and get me fired, so I froze. Luckily it landed on the roof cream side down AND the guy hadn’t noticed! So he drove off with his car wearing a little waffle hat.

I wish I’d been there to see his face later on. Story credit: Reddit / Harleen–Quinzel