The Drive-Through Window

Scents:

• Fried Food
• Car Exhaust
• Money

Sights:

• Drive-up menu
• Order speaker
• Cars ahead and behind
• Pay and pick-up windows
• Uniformed, surly teenager behind the glass
• Bags of food
• Money changing hands
• Overly red mulch and landscaping
• Fake stucco walls
• Service entry
• Dumpster
• Sun reflecting on dashboard
• Posters in windows advertising specials

Feel:

• Dollar bills and change in hand
• Crinkling of paper or plastic bag
• Heat of a freshly made burger through the foil wrapper
• Snap of crisp french fries
• Chill and condensation from a drink cup against your palm

Sounds:

• Traffic
• Radio humming low
• Employee squawking from order box
• Other orders booming through speaker
• Static in order speaker
• Idling of car engine
• Commotion inside as you pull up to the window
• Russle of paper bags as you check your order
• Squeak of a straw as it slides into the plastic top