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wilheldp_PE said:
I just witnessed possibly the stupidest thing I've ever seen.  I get in the drive-thru at my local Wendy's.  I see a car parked in the drive-thru, short of the window, directly adjacent to the side-door into the restaurant.  It's one of those"captive" drive-thrus, where there is a high-curb/parking lot on the right side and the restaurant on the left (i.e., no way to get out if you get blocked in front to back).

I order and ask the guy taking the order, "do you realize that there is a car parked in your drive-thru?"  He says, "yeah, they'll be out in a minute."  Not too long later (maybe 2 minutes), a lady comes out holding 3 of those drink caddies, with 4 drinks each, stacked on top of each other, and she slowly puts them in the passenger side of her car.  OK...no big deal...that wasn't too long a wait.  She then gets in her car, fires it up, drives 10 feet forward (so she is now aligned with the window)...and GETS OUT OF HER CAR AND GOES INSIDE AGAIN.  I was too shocked to say anything to her as she walked past my car and into the building.  By this time, 2 other cars are behind me, so I'm trapped.

She's in there, no shit, for 10 more minutes...apparently waiting on the food that goes along with her drinks.  An employee comes out holding 2 more drinks.  I think that she's going ahead and serving the cars behind the idiot, but nope.  I see her heading towards idiot's passenger side door...apparently these are two additional drinks for the already massive order.  I unkindly ask the employee, "Can you tell that idiot to move her car?"  I get the following explanation from the employee..."She is with a local school and they always call in their orders so its ready when she comes to pick it up.  We were short-handed this morning and didn't have time to make her order.  Sorry about your wait."  Lady finally comes outside with 3 giant bags of food, loads them in the back seat, takes the 2 drinks from the employee, puts them in cup holders in her car via the passenger door, gets in her car and leaves.

Even if that story was true.  Once the lady figures out that her order is not ready, why the fuck didn't she move her car to a parking space and get it out of the drive through (there was literally a spot 10 feet away from the side door)?  Why didn't the employees tell her to come move her car, and they could bring her order out while she waited?  The "short-handed" story is BS anyway.  This Wendy's is by-far the slowest fast food restaurant I've ever been to, and I usually go there weekly (it's the closest fast food to my office and I like Wendy's food).  I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that they straight-up forgot about her order and didn't start making it until she showed up.
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Manager would probably lose their job if you complained.  Foot traffic in the drive through area is a big safety no-no for fast food restaurants.

 
Submitted my OH & PA applications.

Still need to finish NJ but it's on paper and one page got wet so I have to re-do it. It's the experience page that I had already messed up on so I'm using it as my rough draft now. I wish NJ would take work experience & references from my NCEES record.

PA required me to submit a background check. It came back with "no matches found" since our state only searches by name & birthdate so we'll see what happens with that... 

 
Watching late shows without an audience was actually entertaining in itself!

 
Even though the mullet is coming back, I don't think this guy ever thought they were out.

This is what Santa looks like in the south lol

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So last week I called my credit union about rates and decided I was going to refi into a 20 year mortgage at 3.0%.  But got busy with preparing for the coronovirus and the refrigerator dying and I never called them back.  Checked again yesterday and rates went up to 3.5% in a week.

Annoyed, but I imagine with the fed rate cut and the likely upcoming recession the rates will drop again.

 
mudpuppy said:
So last week I called my credit union about rates and decided I was going to refi into a 20 year mortgage at 3.0%.  But got busy with preparing for the coronovirus and the refrigerator dying and I never called them back.  Checked again yesterday and rates went up to 3.5% in a week.

Annoyed, but I imagine with the fed rate cut and the likely upcoming recession the rates will drop again.
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I was just talking with a co-worker yesterday about refinancing. My sister who works for a mortgage company said mortgage rates usually follow the stock market trend, but are 2-3 weeks behind. She expects to see some drops here in the next week or two.

 
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