h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

ltp is right, Dobies aren't innately aggressive. Gretta had been raised in the middle of a large family and was completely trustworthy around toddlers. I watched one accidentally step on her foot, and Gretta merely flinched but held still.

Y'all forgot to mention the drive-in churches.

Right. The drive-in churches. There is one at a nearby lake, but they only meet out there in warm weather. Not many campers at Cheney Lake in the winter.

Hyp, banks do the same here, I thought it was a Utah thing.

Drive-In Movies are nearly extinct in this part of the country. Someone needs to bring them back, as expensive as tickets to the movie theaters are.

Thanks GDZ. I wonder why? Do we have any bank tellers around who can help out on this?

We have a drive-in theatre - the Sixty-Six is still open in the summer.

Spent lots of time at the 66 Drive In in my youth. And at the WC Drive In. After all, admission was cheap..........

There is one in Wichita I think, but that's the only one around here.

GDZ and Hyp, I will ask my daughter what the reasoning is behind going from one window to the other. She may have an explanation for it.

Well, it shouldn't happen ~all~ of the time, but tellers will run back and forth in order to take care of the busiest traffic.

Firstly, they are logged in to a single machine. No one else can use that machine because that teller is responsible for every transaction input into it. Same thing for the cash drawer that goes with that machine.

Then, the a teller inside may finish up with her customer, but there is nobody else in line. However, there are 3 cars waiting at the 3 drive up kiosks and only 2 tellers in that area. So she boogies back to the drive-thru, takes the next transaction back to her station to process and then boogies back to the drive-thru.

20 minutes later, the drive-thru is dead but there are 6 people on line in the lobby and only 2 tellers. Now the drive-thru tellers do the to and fro.

Get it?

That sounds very logical, Witty. Guess I'm just lucky to always hit them when they're playing musical chairs.

We had to call animal control to get a bird out of the building today. I have no idea how if got in. It sort of livened up the day.

Nearest I've been to a drive-in movie was watching The Flintstones many, many years ago.

The only drive-thru anything we have in this area is that burger place with the golden arch.

If ltp could ride a Doberman around when he was a kid and the dog didn't mind, I'd say they're pretty even tempered. Of course, the dog kept trying to run away...

Round here a drive-thru petrol station is newfangled (though we've had drive-thru Mackie D'ses for a while). I hope you appreciate the amount of effort it's taken me not to make some snide comment about lazy Yanks. Now where's that picture of a gymnasium reached by escalator?

I reckon most places wouldn't have room for a drive-thru. Visiting my bank by car would involve hunting for a space in the disc parking zone and then walking up. There's some convenient cycle racks, though.

There's a drive-through Burger King near Bracknell. But the only through thing in Guildford is the old coaching inn.

There definitely are lifestyle differences between the US and the UK. I don't know if it is being lazy as much as having the room to do things like build drive-thru lanes. They keep trying to attract business by making it easier and easier for the consumer.

Drive thru CHURCHES?

I don't even know where to *start* laughing at that one.

*pauses*

*thinks*

*guffaws*



Feeling much better. Strange how a double-double rum and coke will do that! - More to say, but I'm on the phone to

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I can entertain Bagpuss when he's here by taking him with me to pay the electric bill.

*waves to *

Mailboxes! You must have mailboxes on the curb where you can just drive up and pop in your letters.

I checked with daughter about the tellers running back and forth, but someone else had already explained it. Probably better than I could have.

Not drive thru churches....drive-in churches.

I've just realised what else getting me about that - your electricity supplier is within reasonable driving distance, not several hours away. Mind you, we can pay ours at the Post Office, though I'd hate to see the gridlock if they ever introduced a drive-thru considering how long a queue composed only of bodies can be.

Do you think your supplier will take traveller's cheques, Hyp?

*inside the beanbag, David's head explodes at the very thought of a drive-thru Post Office*

The closest I've come to a drive-in movie is recording the lines for the mad scientist and the werewolf (OK, so the werewolf only howls...) for my school's production of 'Grease'. The other roles in the drive-in movie (which Danny and Sandy watch a very brief part of) were played in voice-over by the folks playing Kenickie and Patty (I was playing Roger, also known as Putzie).

One of the McDonalds 'restaurants' in Canterbury has a drive-through lane. I was driven through it once and it scared me.