So you think your day was bad?

[Tom Geiger]

Yea, I never do the drive in at a fast food restaurant. They often screw up the order and you have to go in the restaurant anyway!

[DaveM]

We used to use the drive thru because with a dozen haulers and another dozen cars and vans, we would fill up a restaurant and its parking lot pretty quickly. We also had open trailers and hated to leave them alone, lest kids climb up to touch the cars etc... When we hit a "Gas and Gulp" stop, about half of us would go to a gas station first, and the other half would hit the fast food first. That way, we split up and didn't have to wait so long in line. The day of the wing crunch, we were heading from Indiana up to Martin Michigan. It was a Fourth of July weekend, and we stopped in a little town with one McDonald's. I had filled up the tank first, and was getting in line at the drive thru just in time to see John mash the wing. Luckily, there was a steel girder bridge just before the overhang to protect it from just such a thing. We never could have parked all of those rigs at once with the Holiday traffic. The main object was to get food and fly back onto the road. Usually, we had to be at the track hours ahead of the race for Wheel packing and practice, so the concession stands wouldn't be open. That food we grabbed at the last town before the race track was usually all we would eat until we were heading home. I had a lot of one meal days while playing with the sprints, but it was worth it, just for the people we ran with.