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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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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.
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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.
There are drive-thru’s that are just a single ATM, no teller windows, no employees.
They’re peak “lazy-entitled human”
I used to fix ABMs (we had to stop saying ATM for some reason) and you would be surprised on how many people think there is a person inside.
One time I was fixing the printer on one from the back with the front open (most slide out on rails) and a lady ducked under the front and tried to hand me her bank card and cash.
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.
It’s being a counter-asshole. The real asshole was the original designer who decided everyone would be in cars.
You don’t have an air conditioned car that can recycle your air for you. So yes, be an asshole. There are times when it’s necessary to defend yourself.
Yeah, weird some asshole thought everyone would be in cars in a DRIVE THROUGH ATM lane.
I agree with your final sentence, but this scenario is not one of those times.
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 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.
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.
No, it doesn’t. You don’t have enough information to say something like that. Maybe the ATM fees they offer are the cheapest transaction fees in the city, and you are a customer who needs to optimize for transaction fee. Someone with those needs is going to prefer a bank that charges more for services that cost more to provide and offers a price break on services that are not as costly to provide.
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.
