Europoors discover Drive thru banks

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vigoroiscool123@reddit

Why is the idea of a drive thru bank or atm so odd to Europeans? Do they think someone is gonna run up and snatch your money or something lol?

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I live in a 3000 sq ft house on 4 acres of land. my closest store is 5 miles away. the town is over 15. you live in a non-ADL compliant communist-friendly 350 sq ft apartment bloc that was built before 567, costs more than my house, and still smells of raw sewage

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__life_on_mars__@reddit

It's ok, I know you're just jealous I can actually fit through the double doors at the bank.

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no_4@reddit

Hey the topic is your shitty home not our shitty health, buddy.

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Castillon1453@reddit

Our houses are smaller but are actually houses and not glorified tents made of cardboard and foam

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tomtheconqerur@reddit

I can fit snuggly in your mother.

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jabroni5@reddit

Its ok to be jealous, I can fit through a single door.

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Lynorisa@reddit

i can fit through a garage door

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circlejerker2000@reddit

Then you have a mild flu and go bankrupt because you get robbed at the doctor's office lol

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TomaszA3@reddit

Why are you throwing around fake units of measurement when speaking towards europeans?

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DonnieMoistX@reddit

So because you walk your whole society is too stupid to grasp the simple differences in a society that drives?

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Crafty-Beyond-2202@reddit

Sounds gay

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QFB-procrastinator@reddit

Atms are common in Europe, unlike bank drive-thrus. What are the actual advantages of a bank drive-thru? With restaurants it makes sense, cuz for example if you’re on a trip and you get hungry you can hit the first place you see, you can save the food for later, you can avoid having to find a seat inside, but with a bank? If you’re in a hurry you go to an atm, if you need to do more complex operations you head inside, there isn’t much middle ground between the two so what’s the point of having a third option?

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utan@reddit

It's so boomers can deposit checks and yell at someone over an intercom without leaving their car, then they go to the pharmacy drive-thru for blood pressure meds before hitting up the Taco Bell drive-thru for dinner.

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IAmMadeOfNope@reddit

It's a way of improving overall efficiency.

A busy bank in a densely populated area can now divide the crowd and into two different places. The hours can also be longer for drive-thrus without having to worry about additional security.

It's for the same exact reason fast food has them.

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QFB-procrastinator@reddit

Yeah, i get it. As i said, it just seems “overkill”, but i clearly don’t know how busy banks can get in the US.

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BanzaiKen@reddit

Incredibly. Bank hours are 9-5 so its a madhouse from 4 onwards as people get off work. The rest of the day the poors and housewives use it, which isnt too much these days.

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no_4@reddit

You don't have to park or leave your car.

The drive thru usually has an ATM as well if a real person isn't needed.

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Mangeytwat@reddit

It's because Europe has these things called towns where the people live in houses that surround a street or streets that are full of shops, on the streets are cash machines and banks. Even the cities are just clusters of towns that have developed along the same lines.

The American way of there being houses with no shops or services at all around them is very strange and only possible in a nation that was built up rapidly in the back of insane levels of immigration.

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Round_Bullfrog_8218@reddit

Are we pretending like Europe isn't majority car transport to? It's a lower than the US but quite a bit but it's still the majority of trips and the vast majority of miles

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Fisherman_Gabe@reddit

Most banks in my city don't even have parking, much less a drive thru. 😭 To me, the bank has always been somewhere one walks to unless you're a ruralcel.

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AlphaMassDeBeta@reddit (OP)

Isn't that already possible though?

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RealScionEcto@reddit

If you want a serious answer, it's so the banks can have unmanned 24 hour ATMs without having to risk letting people inside the building. It's also used so people don't have to wait in line for an ATM inside.

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burgonies@reddit

Drive thru banks existed before ATMs

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RealScionEcto@reddit

Huh. The more you know.

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Fab_iyay@reddit

Couldn't you just make the atm accessible from ouside withou a whole drive thru?

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igerardcom@reddit

NEIN!

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gatosaurio@reddit

You just blew his mind...

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_BEER_@reddit

Reminds me of the game Saints Row 2 (underrated as hell btw) with its drive through chapels that'd remove your wanted level. I bet those things exist in real life America by now.

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CobandCoffee@reddit

I've heard of drive through wedding chapels in vegas (don't know if that's still a thing) and during COVID some churches had drive-in services where people stay in their parked cars and the sermon would be delivered outside.

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clayticus@reddit

There are even drive through liquor stores

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FormerPresidentBiden@reddit

Beer barns in Texas are something else lol

Then there's the drive thru daiquiri places in NOLA where the sticker over the straw hole makes it not an open container 😂

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Superspookyghost@reddit

I’m from Nola (yes, I am a powerful raging alcoholic) and honestly Louisiana had some of the best liquor laws in the country. It used to be that there was a loophole that it was only illegal to try to buy alcohol underage but not to sell it so there was 0 penalty for anyone that sold alcohol to people that were underage or even bother to id them. Everything good is taken from us

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