Walk-thru

There are drive thrus for ATMs?

You can get drive through married in the US. It's literally a Mad Max society
- I'm not doubting you, but that's certainly less common than the drive through ATM
- Where are they? I want to pull up with my homie and surprise him 🤫
Yes. Before there were ATMs (Yes, I'm old) there were drive-through tellers, and they were replaced with ATMs before there were walk-up ATMs. Then walk-ups were given extra terminals as walk traffic increased and drive-throughs were phased out, replaced with nearby short-term parking.
Here in the States, we 🩷💚🤎LOVE🤎💚🩷 our cars.
Why wouldn't there be one?
What suprises me is that there isn't a walk up ATM. Even in banks with multiple drive up ATMs there's always at least one designed for people.
- He may not know that in the US drive up atms are common. In other parts of the world they aren’t. I’ve never seen one here in colombia as an example of a country that doesn’t have them. All the atms here are inside the bank to dissuade theft.
- My closest branch removed theirs a couple months ago. Only drivethrough now.

I once walked down to the local ice cream dispensary to get a cone of some type. But they were short-handed that day, and had closed the walk-up window. So I walked over to the drive-thru window.

They would not serve me without a car. Instead of closing the drive-thru and making drivers get out of their car, they closed the walk-up window, and wouldn't serve any walk-ups at the drive-thru.

Fuck drive-thrus.

I hate drive-thrus even as a driver. The intercom is always garbage, the menu is always presented in some insane arrangement that's makes it basically impossible to peruse, paying at the window is awkward, receiving your food through the window is awkward, checking to make sure your order is correct is awkward, and to top it all off it usually takes longer than just parking and walking inside.
It is baffling to me that anyone ever willingly uses a drive-thru.
- AC (or heating) tho.
A Jack-In-The-Box in San Francisco (The Geary Street one) decided to keep its drive through open until midnight while the walk-in part closed at 8pm, which bugged me as a bicyclist. (They wouldn't serve me without a motor.)
Eventually the place opened up a walk-in window for after hours service, so I wasn't the only one bothered.
- Take a chainsaw with you next time. If they complain that you don't have a motor, offer to demonstrate to them that you do in fact have one (without being threatening of course).
- I would try riding up while revving my mouth as a motor.
  “This is an e-bike. The motor is in the hub.”
I worked at a Wendy's (US fast food restaurant) in the '90s. They told us not to serve people not in a vehicle because a standing person could much more easily jump up and yoink the register drawer or some money in it (or otherwise climb in through the window). Not sure how true any of that is, but thought I'd mention it.
I once took my bike to the Burger King drive-thru. It was late at night, no cars in sight. Yet the next time I went there, about two weeks later, they had already put up a sign explicitly banning bicycles.
Ice cream requires cruel and violent atrocity against intelligent creatures. Fuck ice cream.

Wait. Why didn’t she just deal with the non-automatic teller (the guy she was talking to)?

You can use cards from other banks, credit cards, and even some prepaid cards at an ATM. You may be able to do some things with the machine that the teller can't/won't do.
- "You may be able to do some things with the machine that the teller cant/wont do."
  Tell me more ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- you can try asking them out first
- But she says they didn't have an ATM and she went to the drive through, which is the same as going to a teller inside.
I don't know in America, but I've seen banks charge a fee for withdrawals at the counter.
Because then you have to use a pen like a cave man.
- But with a good pen it glides across the page in such a satisfying way, like a hot knife through butter.
  It just flows across the page
  swoosh

A bank with a drive thru? What?! Never saw this in my life.

The world is such a fascinating place. I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a bank WITHOUT a drive thru. I've lived in big cities and out in the sticks.
- America?
- In Europe I've never seen a drive through ATM (in fact, the only drive throughs I've seen here are McDonald's). In the US I was surprised to see many.
They're really common outside cities.
- I've lived outside cities all my life and never seen drive through bank.
Should I tell them about the drive thru liquor stores?
- How else do you work up the courage for a drive-thru wedding?
I once saw one in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. What a fucking shithole that was. I couldn't even walk anywhere from the hotel. There were no sidewalks. Fucking grocery bags from Walmart flying all over town, the ridiculous shit you have to go through just to buy a beer. No thanks, never again.
I worked at a rural community Bank for a while. Many branches were in buildings that literally predated cars and had no drivethrus. Honestly the couple of branches that were built within the last 50 years were jarring because they were so modern compared to the frontier town banks that have been banks since around the time the region gained statehood
After covid I could go thru the drive thru for food, booze, the bank, pharmacy, tabacco, car wash, coffee, and for pickup (they bring it out to the car) groceries and most restaurants.
I don't know if they're still around, but when I was a kid and ATMs were still kind of new there were drive thrus at banks where you interacted with a teller using a speaker and a pneumatic tube for sending/receiving.
My mom would let me operate the tube from the back seat, I thought it was cool as shit.
- as a kid i enjoyed rolling up on my bike and pressing the "Send" button and then getting the bored bank teller response on the loudspeaker: "uh... thank you?"
  still sad that pneumatic tubes are not used for transportation.
Seen a bunch in Oregon

I'm pretty sure the joke is that she was inside the bank, likely talking to... A teller, asking about an automated teller machine.

Just talk to the people inside and ask them to help you. It's literally their job.

You’d think, but my bank is actively becoming hostile towards people walking in.
My debit card literally never works at the ATM, so I just take the 2 minutes to walk in and fill out a withdrawal form. It’s fine for the occasional need for cash.
Last time, they basically told me, in the future were requiring your debit card for security. There isn’t any reason for you to come in.
- I would counter that with: "if you'd give me a debit card that worked, I wouldn't have to"
- Yeah they want to fire at least some of the tellers.
- I just hand them my debit card inside and tell them what I want. Usually with an apology that I haven't filled out a deposit/withdrawal form. Most of the time the teller will say it's fine and the same amount of work for them either way. I'm sure it depends on the bank or branch, and I personally try to avoid the bigger banks like Bank of America or Chase just because their fees are so much higher and I hear their service is worse, so that's probably a factor as well.
Last time i talked to a teller, he walked me to a machine and explained me how it worked.
- Apparently that person wants to be unemployed.
There are things that you can do at an ATM that you can't do at some banks, or will have shorter overall wait times.
You can't always walk into a small credit union and withdraw money/deposit cash from a bank account with a different institution, but you can do that at their ATMs.
- I find that regardless of bank, if you talk to a teller, you need to have an account with the bank you are physically in.
  There's very little they can do for you without it.
  I've had banks I don't have an account with occasionally replace a damaged dollar bill of some value or another, or do some limited currency conversion, eg, getting a roll of quarters or something, in exchange for the cash I have on hand... Beyond that, they basically tell you to leave.
Just talk to the people inside
Some banks literally charge a fee to do the same transaction that is cheaper/free at an ATM from what I've heard.
- Sounds like a good reason to change banks

There’s usually a 24 hr ATM by/in the entrance of most banks as well, for people on foot.

When I was at university, I used to ride my bicycle to the local 24hr Macdonalds after I finished work; around 12:30am, I'd arrive just before 1am.

After doing this for ~8 months, they must have changed the policy, I was no longer able to use the drive through. But the door was locked after 10pm, so no more late night snacks for me!

Not sure if motorbikes were allowed or not.

Urgh I hate even thinking of using a drive through on a motorcycle. What kinda monstrosity bike would even have anywhere to put the food.
- Uh, how about a backpack? Saddlebags? Compartment under the seat? Wtf even is this comment.
- Are sidecars out of style
- I have a magnetic tank bag. I've never gone through drive through because I ride with earplugs, but I have picked up food for my wife like I'm her personal Door Dash guy on my sport bike.

Wait, to ask the guy at the bank she must have gone inside the bank where the tellers are.

Yeah? That's where I'd start. Maybe they were at a bank that's not their own?
- The idea being you can just do a withdrawal through the teller, however one must always remember young people are confused and scared by manual human interaction.

I'm glad we don't have banks/atm with drive thru (or many drive thru to beginn with) but this reminds me of my first covid test.

This was in the very beginning when testing was available like the first couple of weeks, when testing through a professional was available and everything was under tight lock down. My city's health department set up a low contact drive through at a trade show site.

In general not a bad idea to reduce contact, but it was like they didn't even imagine, that someone had to get there without a car (this is Germany mind you not the US). There was no set up for non drivers at all.

I live quite central and still had to take 2 trams and a bus to get there (after Covid exposure to mandatory testing) walk over a huge parking space into a fucking parking garage and behind those cars waiting in line through the whole garage to the testing station. All while feeling like shit.

Ahh yeah, memories...

This story is not true.

Could be. I've walked through a drive thru McDonald's before.
What was hilarious was that the customers behind us got out of their car and joined us on foot.
- McDonalds Drive at night is something else. I've driven, walked and rode a bicycle through the drive.
  But when you cycle through the drive during restaurant opening hours, you're suddenly the bad guy and should park your bike and come into the restaurant. As if car drivers cannot do that.
What part of this story seems unbelievable to you?
- Everytime I've tried to walk or bike thru a drive thru, they wouldn't serve me because of "safety".
  I was like, yeah I know cars are dangerous but really?
I briefly banked at a bank that had no lobby hours on Saturdays, so I walked through the drive thru ATM. It wasn't pleasant but it at least got the job done
I use the drive through ATM at my bank sans car all the time.

i don't understand. is she complaining about the embarassment?

I think she's complaining about how humans on foot have become an afterthought for some, as well as the danger and unpleasantness of standing in a line for cars.

Did she expect to cut in line?

She should have pulled out her gat and robbed those fuckers.

The other day I was waiting behind a guy with no car. 😁