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Okay, rant time. I work nights and not much is open when I go home. Couple fast food restaurants, few 24 hour grocery stores, whatever.

This virus thing isn't even in our area and the whole city is on some sort of psycho-hell-lockdown thing. I do my shopping about twice a month or so, no big deal. Don't need bread which is a good thing because for some reason the forty million loaves of bread that are usually on the shelves are ALL GONE. Every single fucking one of them. It's like the store just opened. Same thing for the toilet paper isle. You'd think the apocalypse just took place.

For the love of all that's fucking holy, 35 people have died from this "pandemic" here in the USA. That's it, just 35. I think 35 people probably died from falling down the stairs just this afternoon between 1pm and 2pm. This is completely out of hand.

Now, on the to the story you all probably want because otherwise why would I waste my time? I'm generally laughing at the people that are acting like it's the total end of the world except this time I came across one at one of my long-time favorite places to eat.

Again, I work late and hardly anything is open. There's a shitty 24 hour McDonald's that's way out of my way and I'm not driving way over there just to eat.... McDonald's. Plus, I can't stand eating there more than maybe three times a year. They never get my order right, they're slow as molasses in any cold weather month, I've NEVER seen the same people working there but that's a "whole 'nother" story.

I've been wanting some Steak & Shake for over a week and since I'm already just a mile away shopping for groceries I'll just head over there and pick up a couple burgers and an order of fries. Sounds good to me, I don't feel like cooking anything tonight. Lots of people in my area think S&S is pretty meh since it's relatively new to my area but I grew up in a different city and it was always around. I move a few times, no thanks to my parents and S&S is history and the only time we get to eat it is if we're visiting family, which is barely a couple times a year. Now there's one in my city and I eat there a couple/few times a year and I don't even have to drive that far to get there. It's only a few miles and it's great.

So, I get there and the place looks deserted, which is completely rare but I understand the circumstances. Another vehicle goes around to the drive-through but I don't like the drive-through at S&S because it's just impersonal and I grew up with this place and always go inside. I want to talk to a person that can understand me and make sure they hear what I'm saying. We all know how those speakers translate everything in to a foreign language when you talk in to them.

I park and get out of my car and the sign on the outside says: DINING ROOM TEMPORARILY CLOSED - DRIVE THROUGH AND CARRY OUT ORDERS ONLY. Okay, well, if the door's locked then I'll go through the drive through, or maybe I'll just skip it since food prep at S&S is not particularly quick and I'd rather not sit in my car....... I try the "airlock" outside door and, surprise, it opens. I try the next door and, surprise, it opens too. There's a printed note right on the counter that says something about how, again, and I'm paraphrasing, "due to the State governor's requests the dining room is temporarily closed but the drive through will remain open and carry out orders will be filled, thanks for your understand, blah blah blah, stay safe, etc."

There seems to be ONE guy working in this place. He doesn't acknowledge me in any way, just takes the order from the guy in the SUV on the speaker. Also, he doesn't really seem to understand what the guy is telling him which furthers my reason for not using the drive-through.

Nearly FIFTEEN minutes later after this guy cooks this guy's food, takes the guy's money and packs up all the food ordered he FINALLY comes to the counter where I haven't said anything up to this point. Guy's alone and demanding service is just extremely rude in my book.

"You're exaggerating! How do you know it's been close to fifteen minutes?"
Because by this time FIVE songs have played on the muzak since I've been standing there at the counter. Otherwise, I likely would never have known.

So, the guy comes over towards the counter, wildly pointing and yelling something to the effect of, "You can't be in here! You can't be in this area at all! We aren't serving anyone right now except drive through!"

I'm sure I had a shocked/questioning/confused/WTF look on my face and replied with, "Yeah, I know you're doing 'dine in', I'm just getting a 'carry out' order."

He interrupts with another barrage of, "You CAN'T be in here!"

I again replied with something to the effect of, "It says "carry out and drive through ONLY, and I just want to place a 'carry out' order NOT dine in."

He yells, "Where does it say that? The sign on the door outside says no one can come in the building!"

I said, pointing at the piece of paper on the counter RIGHT NEXT TO HIM, "It says you're taking carry out orders RIGHT THERE ON THAT PIECE OF PAPER."

He takes the piece of paper ....... AND FLIPS IT OVER..... and says, "Forget what this says, the sign says that you....."

At this point I start walking out. On my way to the door I say, "Would've been nice if you said all this ten minutes ago instead of me standing in here and wasting all my time."

He yells at me, "WHAT DID YOU JUST SAY?!"

I interrupt him and say, "Forget it. Just forget it dude." I'm not buying any food from here tonight.

I'm at the door heading out and the guy at the drive through window is parked right by the door instead of at the window. He says something smarmy like, "I'm not going to serve you if you keep it up."

Really, nutjob?

He goes over to the car waiting outside and starts to give them their food and once again, argumentatively says, "The sign on the door says you can't be in here, drive through only."

VERY annoyed at this point I tap the glass on the door loudly with my finger and point right to where it says in BIG LETTERS: DRIVE THROUGH AND CARRY OUT ONLY -- DINING ROOM TEMPORARILY CLOSED and say, "It says RIGHT HERE, CARRY OUT!" and then go to my car.

He yells something else but I yell over him with another, "Forget it, just forget it!"

If I can't be in the place WHY THE HELL IS THE DOOR UNLOCKED, GENIUS?! Wish I would have said that before I left, but whatever. I'm not in to picking fights with demagogues. And all this because a tiny handful of people