Many times I have gone through the drive thru and wondered just who would be dumb enough to wreck into that pole on the corner before the first window. It always looks likes it has been tagged about 50 times, but I have never seen this actually happen, until today.
I always figured that for someone to hit this pole they would have to have a car full of screaming kids, or be driving a huge car that would be hard to control. I figured wrong. It was a lady in a mini van. The mini van part doesn't suprise me at all, but the fact that it was not full of kids bouncing around was suprising.
I was in mid order when I heard a horrific crunching noise coming from in front of me. I looked up, and her door was grinding against the pole. The pole refused to yield. The lady let go of the wheel and yelled "aack!" This threw me off of my game. I lost my ordering rhythm. I was distracted by the lady leaning out of her van door looking down on what she had done. She had cut the turn waaaay to early, and now was trying to back off the barrier. I repeated that I wanted a "plain" cheesburger, not a "painful" cheeseburger to the girl taking orders.
The accident was made even more horrific by the fact that the van was a gleeming white. Now it looked like a brown Buick had sideswiped it. She dislodged the family sedan and proceeded to the window. She mentioned nothing about the crash to the kid taking money. I know this because I asked him. He just looked at me. I just remember thinking that he had a tremendous amount of rubber bands on his braces.
I started to pull out of the drive thru and I remember wondering how exactly you report that to the insurance company. I mean, it's not like the pole is going to jump out in front of you while going 60 mph. (See Deer Story below.) Then I noticed that they had forgotten my straw for my drink, how annoying.
