Rain, Rain, Go Away.

A lot of fast food restaurants have awnings over their windows at drive-thru to keep both the customers and cashiers from getting wet. Unfortunately, ours is not one of them. It was raining here today (did you guess that already?)... It was not the it's-raining-so-hard-it's-awesome rain, nor was it the almost-not-there drizzle... It was the annoying, cold, can't-make-up-my-mind-about-being-heavy-or-misty rain. The kind of rain that usually requires people to use their wipers. The kind of rain people still go out to get tacos in. 

Now don't get me wrong, I think it's very important to use your wipers whilst driving in the rain, but when you're sitting in the drive-thru I don't really see the necessity for it. Not only are you not driving when you're waiting to get your food, but it makes things a lot more difficult for your cashier. It's a bit like an obstacle course... a water obstacle course  (a wabstacle course?). First we have to dodge the drops dripping from our drive-thru window. Then once we've made it past that, we have to either duck the drops that your wipers are throwing at us, or get hit in the face by them. So we'll stick our hand out, and then pull it back in a little to dodge the wipers, then stick it out again, then pull it back in again to dodge the wipers, then stick it out again, etc. etc... We're not teasing you by trying to hand you your food and then pull it away, we're trying to stay as dry as possible. The wiper thing is one of my biggest peeves. Especially when you can clearly see we're trying not to get hit by them and you still leave them on, even as we look at you with pleading eyes. That's just cruel, guys.

Another thing people like to do when it's raining is to only open their window just enough to get a hand and a wrist out the window. This doesn't make sense to me, because you're going to have to open your window further in a minute anyways because there is no way your twelve tacos are going to fit through that tiny slit. Just sayin'. It would make it go faster if you just opened your window that far the first time, instead of taking 2 minutes to contort your arm, and then make us lean half way out the window. It's not like we want to get wet either, especially since we have to stay at work for the next five hours.