On my SOAP BOX

I have to step up on my Soap Box for this post. What has happened to "good service"?

By this I mean listening to the customer and giving them what they ordered. I am so tired of going through a drive thru and asking for something and then having to check each item in the sack before I drive off. (I recently got home and had no sausage in my sausage, egg and cheese mcmuffin so I got in the car, drove back and parked, went inside and walked straight to the front of the line and announced in a rather loud and upset voice that they left off the sausage! My son, once went in and asked them if it was in their training book. When asked what training book, he stated the one that tells you to get everyones order wrong!)

Or having to ask the car hop which drink is which. It seems they don't care if you all have to drink after each other because you can't tell one drink from the other. I wonder why, whoever fills the drink cups, doesn't have time to punch the lid or mark the cup as to what type of drink is inside.

Then there is going through the drive thru (which is there to save time) and having to turn your car off so you don't use all your gas while you wait in line for 20 minutes. Everyone should complain to fast food places to make the drive thru for picking up called in orders or getting drinks ONLY.

They have parking places to order food while you are there but no, people have to go through the drive thru and order 6 hamburgers with fries, 5 orders of onion rings, 4 milk shakes, 2 orders of popcorn chicken, 3 chicken wraps, 5 cokes, 3 Dr Peppers, 4 ice cream sundaes and 1 chicken salad. Of course the drive-in cooks their food while you wait to meet their "fresh cooked" advertisements. I seriously doubt there are very many people who couldn't call in their orders, after all most people have a cell phone attached to their ear.

The long waits in a drive thru are costing America twice the amount of gasoline. Why when the gas is so high are the waits so long???? Just yesterday we were in line for a cup of ice cream for my grandson and after having to turn the car off and waiting 15 minutes I just pulled out of line and we went somewhere else.

Cell phones are another peeve, or at least the use of a cell phone while driving. You have to honk to get people to drive on when the light turns green because they are on the phone, they can't use a turn signal because they don't have a free hand, they can't check when switching lanes because they are on the phone. I personally hope the laws asking for no hand held cell phone usage while driving a vehicle passes. My city has a military installation that put that into effect some time ago and I don't see anyone being deprived of anything because they can't chat while driving. Once upon a time people grocery shopped, walked through a parking lot, got clothes in the mall, ate in a restaurant, drove a car, and went to the movies or theatre without talking on a cell phone. Oh my gosh those people didn't die or dry up.

Now if you want to tell me "if I don't like the wait in a drive thru don't go," and all those other don'ts just don't comment please. However if you agree with my oration or have some of your own pet peeves let us know what you think.