And if such a person is also your spouse? Then there is something like secondhand embarrassment – when the other does something shameful, and you feel ashamed instead of them! And if this is repeated over and over again, then there is a temptation to share your feelings online – as it happened withthe user u/TheElMatadORR, whose cry from the heart we will read today.
The author of the post has been married to his wife for over 13 years and they travel a lot
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What annoys the guy about his wife is that she’s always overly slow while ordering fast food
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Moreover, the process of menu checking always starts only when she’s already at the counter, no earlier
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The husband has tried offering her the menu ahead of time or the drive-through several times, but it just didn’t work at all
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So now the dude simply takes it online to vent about it, desperately seeking any wholesome advice from the netizens
So the Original Poster (OP) is nearly 40 and his wife is a few years older. They have been married for 13 years, and what has always annoyed the man in his partner is that on any journey, wherever the couple goes, when they go to order some fast food, the woman always studies the menu for a long time and thoroughly. But it happens only when her turn comes up, and she is already standing at the counter.
And there is no way to look at everything and make a choice while standing in line – the selection process begins only directly near the counter, when the employee politely answers all questions, and in their heart they must be only thinking “Good Lord, can you finally make your order?!” and behind your back, you literally feel the annihilating glances of other guys shifting from foot to foot and just waiting, waiting, waiting…
To clarify the details, the OP admits that the drive-through or looking at the menu ahead does not work in his wife’s case. They do not work at all, because he has tried more than once. Drive-through is also not an option – because he has to sit back and give his wife the opportunity, leaning with her elbows on his lap, for a long time, at least five minutes or so, to pick her food. Well, nobody’s perfect, and the original poster’s wife apparently isn’t either…
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Did you think there were no studies on the amount of time the average person spends ordering fast food? I didn’t think so either, but it turns out there are such studies. Andthis is what they tell us: during lunch time peak hours, customers spent on average 5.4 minutes waiting before they can get their orders. The 5.4 minutes consisted of 2.42 minutes of queuing time and 2.98 minutes of service time. This total waiting time is only slightly below the actual expected waiting time of 5.42 minutes.
This study was done at the James Cook University in Australia, but the numbers in the US are unlikely to differ drastically. According to the latest CivicScience data, 27% of U.S. adults who eat at fast-food restaurants (such as Chick-fil-A or McDonald’s) expect to receive their food after ordering within 2-3 minutes at the most, while a plurality (42%) say 5 minutes should be the max wait time. For 7% of respondents, “fast” actually means immediate, as they feel there shouldn’t be any waiting involved at all.
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