There are drive thrus for ATMs?
One of the culture shocks for me when I moved to the US.
Yes. Before there were ATMs (Yes, I’m old) there were drive-through tellers, and they were replaced with ATMs before there were walk-up ATMs. Then walk-ups were given extra terminals as walk traffic increased and drive-throughs were phased out, replaced with nearby short-term parking.
Here in the States, we 🩷💚🤎LOVE🤎💚🩷 our cars.
I once walked down to the local ice cream dispensary to get a cone of some type. But they were short-handed that day, and had closed the walk-up window. So I walked over to the drive-thru window.
They would not serve me without a car. Instead of closing the drive-thru and making drivers get out of their car, they closed the walk-up window, and wouldn’t serve any walk-ups at the drive-thru.
Fuck drive-thrus.
I hate drive-thrus even as a driver. The intercom is always garbage, the menu is always presented in some insane arrangement that’s makes it basically impossible to peruse, paying at the window is awkward, receiving your food through the window is awkward, checking to make sure your order is correct is awkward, and to top it all off it usually takes longer than just parking and walking inside.
It is baffling to me that anyone ever willingly uses a drive-thru.
AC (or heating) tho.
Like the establishment does not have ac or heating.
The street doesn’t!
Brcause those establishements usually make you park 2 km away and walk there
Bastards! How can they use kilometers?!
A Jack-In-The-Box in San Francisco (The Geary Street one) decided to keep its drive through open until midnight while the walk-in part closed at 8pm, which bugged me as a bicyclist. (They wouldn’t serve me without a motor.)
Eventually the place opened up a walk-in window for after hours service, so I wasn’t the only one bothered.
Take a chainsaw with you next time. If they complain that you don’t have a motor, offer to demonstrate to them that you do in fact have one (without being threatening of course).
What’s the reasoning behind that
I worked at a Wendy’s (US fast food restaurant) in the '90s. They told us not to serve people not in a vehicle because a standing person could much more easily jump up and yoink the register drawer or some money in it (or otherwise climb in through the window). Not sure how true any of that is, but thought I’d mention it.
I once took my bike to the Burger King drive-thru. It was late at night, no cars in sight. Yet the next time I went there, about two weeks later, they had already put up a sign explicitly banning bicycles.
Ice cream requires cruel and violent atrocity against intelligent creatures. Fuck ice cream.
Wait. Why didn’t she just deal with the non-automatic teller (the guy she was talking to)?
You can use cards from other banks, credit cards, and even some prepaid cards at an ATM. You may be able to do some things with the machine that the teller can’t/won’t do.
you can try asking them out first
But she says they didn’t have an ATM and she went to the drive through, which is the same as going to a teller inside.
I think the banker teller in the story was talking about a drive-through ATM, not a drive-through teller.
So in order to do something that the teller can’t/won’t do, she would need to stand between cars, which is dangerous.
I’ve experienced once where the teller told me that if I’m withdrawing money under a certain amount, I should do it at the atm outside. Not sure if that rule is true or they just didn’t want to deal with it.
I don’t know in America, but I’ve seen banks charge a fee for withdrawals at the counter.
Because then you have to use a pen like a cave man.
But with a good pen it glides across the page in such a satisfying way, like a hot knife through butter.
It just flows across the page
swoosh
I can tell you’re not left handed.
I can tell you haven’t found the right pen.
Also left handed. Have been looking for the right pen for over fifty years. Please share us your wisdom.
If you’re walking into a drive thru, DON’T WAIT. Walk in the exit, straight up to the teller’s window, explain you’re asthmatic and can’t wait behind car exhaust. The people in the cars will not hear you.
Not one should have to stand in that shit.
There are drive-thru’s that are just a single ATM, no teller windows, no employees.
They’re peak “lazy-entitled human”I don’t understand how drive up atms are entitled. It is convenient, not necessarily lazy. Even granting it’s entitled and lazy, drive up atms are far from “peak lazy-entitled human”, see Uber, door dash, amazon, etc.
You realize an ATM doesn’t have a teller…
Not one should have to stand in that
True.
Hopefully
If you’re walking into a drive thru, LIE ABOUT A MEDICAL CONDITION
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Find a walk-up ATM from a branch more deserving of your business
if possible & available.
Pro tip: Ally & Schwab (USA) reimburse ATM fees, $10 & unlimited respectively. Also some stores still do cashback for debit cards - buy a pack of gum, get $20/$50/$100.
So, be an asshole? What’s it like being the only person on the planet?
It’s being a counter-asshole. The real asshole was the original designer who decided everyone would be in cars.
You don’t have an air conditioned car that can recycle your air for you. So yes, be an asshole. There are times when it’s necessary to defend yourself.
The person could use the walk-up non-automatic teller to perform their transaction. They were already talking to one…
Yeah, weird some asshole thought everyone would be in cars in a DRIVE THROUGH ATM lane.
I agree with your final sentence, but this scenario is not one of those times.
Yes, without presenting any options for people walking, when obvious people who walk also use the bank/money. IT’S POSITIVELY STUPID.
A bank with a drive thru? What?! Never saw this in my life.
Should I tell them about the drive thru liquor stores?
How else do you work up the courage for a drive-thru wedding?
They’re really common outside cities.
Well, in the land of the free. Never saw one in Europe.
I’ve lived outside cities all my life and never seen drive through bank.
I once saw one in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. What a fucking shithole that was. I couldn’t even walk anywhere from the hotel. There were no sidewalks. Fucking grocery bags from Walmart flying all over town, the ridiculous shit you have to go through just to buy a beer. No thanks, never again.
I worked at a rural community Bank for a while. Many branches were in buildings that literally predated cars and had no drivethrus. Honestly the couple of branches that were built within the last 50 years were jarring because they were so modern compared to the frontier town banks that have been banks since around the time the region gained statehood
After covid I could go thru the drive thru for food, booze, the bank, pharmacy, tabacco, car wash, coffee, and for pickup (they bring it out to the car) groceries and most restaurants.
Seen a bunch in Oregon
I’m pretty sure the joke is that she was inside the bank, likely talking to… A teller, asking about an automated teller machine.
Just talk to the people inside and ask them to help you. It’s literally their job.
Just talk to the people inside
Some banks literally charge a fee to do the same transaction that is cheaper/free at an ATM from what I’ve heard.
Sounds like a good reason to change banks
No, it doesn’t. You don’t have enough information to say something like that. Maybe the ATM fees they offer are the cheapest transaction fees in the city, and you are a customer who needs to optimize for transaction fee. Someone with those needs is going to prefer a bank that charges more for services that cost more to provide and offers a price break on services that are not as costly to provide.
Really licking the boots of an entity that exists to hold your money while making money off your money.
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There are things that you can do at an ATM that you can’t do at some banks, or will have shorter overall wait times.
You can’t always walk into a small credit union and withdraw money/deposit cash from a bank account with a different institution, but you can do that at their ATMs.
I find that regardless of bank, if you talk to a teller, you need to have an account with the bank you are physically in.
There’s very little they can do for you without it.
I’ve had banks I don’t have an account with occasionally replace a damaged dollar bill of some value or another, or do some limited currency conversion, eg, getting a roll of quarters or something, in exchange for the cash I have on hand… Beyond that, they basically tell you to leave.
Wait, to ask the guy at the bank she must have gone inside the bank where the tellers are.
When I was at university, I used to ride my bicycle to the local 24hr Macdonalds after I finished work; around 12:30am, I’d arrive just before 1am.
After doing this for ~8 months, they must have changed the policy, I was no longer able to use the drive through. But the door was locked after 10pm, so no more late night snacks for me!
Not sure if motorbikes were allowed or not.
Tbf those rules came about due to it being a common avenue for robbery. The logic is that if you have a car at least we have your licence plate if you rob us, but if not you could get away with it easier.
I’m surprised they let you do it at all, must’ve been a while ago (or your area just recently got as bad as mine has been for years lol).
2007, Palmerston North, New Zealand.
So a while ago, and Palmy has always had a significant student population, ideas like; you can get a free feed at maccas by going through the drive through and walking / biking off; tend to spread quickly.
There’s usually a 24 hr ATM by/in the entrance of most banks as well, for people on foot.
Hah maybe where you live. There are a lot of places that were built under the assumption that 100% of people would drive there.
I’m glad we don’t have banks/atm with drive thru (or many drive thru to beginn with) but this reminds me of my first covid test.
This was in the very beginning when testing was available like the first couple of weeks, when testing through a professional was available and everything was under tight lock down. My city’s health department set up a low contact drive through at a trade show site.
In general not a bad idea to reduce contact, but it was like they didn’t even imagine, that someone had to get there without a car (this is Germany mind you not the US). There was no set up for non drivers at all.
I live quite central and still had to take 2 trams and a bus to get there (after Covid exposure to mandatory testing) walk over a huge parking space into a fucking parking garage and behind those cars waiting in line through the whole garage to the testing station. All while feeling like shit.
Ahh yeah, memories…
The horizontals were probably confused about this vertical alien
The other day I was waiting behind a guy with no car. 😁
i don’t understand. is she complaining about the embarassment?
I think she’s complaining about how humans on foot have become an afterthought for some, as well as the danger and unpleasantness of standing in a line for cars.
She should have pulled out her gat and robbed those fuckers.
