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[–] hinterlufer@lemmy.world 120 points 2 months ago (4 children)

There are drive thrus for ATMs?

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 94 points 2 months ago (3 children)

You can get drive through married in the US. It's literally a Mad Max society

[–] TwentySeven@lemmy.world 27 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not doubting you, but that's certainly less common than the drive through ATM

[–] 3ntranced@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

We also have drive through liquor stores

[–] Balex@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Where are they? I want to pull up with my homie and surprise him 🤫

[–] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Vegas I can say without actually looking it up.

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 75 points 2 months ago

One of the culture shocks for me when I moved to the US.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] DemBoSain@midwest.social 110 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] vithigar@lemmy.ca 36 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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.

[–] GbyBE@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

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).

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[–] dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 65 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] FantasmaNaCasca@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"You may be able to do some things with the machine that the teller cant/wont do."

Tell me more ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Do transactions involving an account not held by the bank.

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[–] scytale@lemm.ee 20 points 2 months ago

I’ve experienced once where the teller told me that if I’m withdrawing money under a certain amount, I should do it at the atm outside. Not sure if that rule is true or they just didn’t want to deal with it.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 months ago

I don't know in America, but I've seen banks charge a fee for withdrawals at the counter.

[–] coffeejoe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Because then you have to use a pen like a cave man.

[–] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 35 points 2 months ago (8 children)

If you're walking into a drive thru, DON'T WAIT. Walk in the exit, straight up to the teller's window, explain you're asthmatic and can't wait behind car exhaust. The people in the cars will not hear you.

Not one should have to stand in that shit.

[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There are drive-thru's that are just a single ATM, no teller windows, no employees.
They're peak "lazy-entitled human"

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[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You realize an ATM doesn't have a teller...

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[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Not one should have to stand in that

True.

Hopefully

If you're walking into a drive thru, LIE ABOUT A MEDICAL CONDITION

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Find a walk-up ATM from a branch more deserving of your business

if possible & available.

Pro tip: Ally & Schwab (USA) reimburse ATM fees, $10 & unlimited respectively. Also some stores still do cashback for debit cards - buy a pack of gum, get $20/$50/$100.

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[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] OutsizedWalrus@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Last time i talked to a teller, he walked me to a machine and explained me how it worked.

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 12 points 2 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] yamanii@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (12 children)

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

[–] LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] dch82@lemmy.zip 11 points 2 months ago
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[–] vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

They're really common outside cities.

[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 20 points 2 months ago

Well, in the land of the free. Never saw one in Europe.

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[–] Klanky@sopuli.xyz 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] Cryophilia@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Hah maybe where you live. There are a lot of places that were built under the assumption that 100% of people would drive there.

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] spongebue@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Yeah? That's where I'd start. Maybe they were at a bank that's not their own?

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[–] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 17 points 2 months ago (14 children)

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.

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[–] norimee@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

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...

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