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Loud McDonald's drive-thru speaker keeps family up at night
"There are nights we like to keep the windows open. We can't even sleep," says Patricia Andersen. "They repeat [the order] back. There's this one girl, she shouts into it. I can hear the whole order. It's crazy." McDonald's, after being contacted by a reporter, supposedly fixed the problem. (Chicago Tribune)
July 23, 2008 | Permalink
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"Caturano said she has also recommended the restaurant give the couple a free meal."
Sorry about the years of noise. Here's your heart attack on a bun with a side of artery clogging fries and carbonated sugar water. Now drop dead.
Posted by: G-Man | Jul 23, 2008 5:31:44 AM
"Tribune photo by Zbigniew Bzdak "
I see the Trib is running short on vowels again.
Posted by: nellagain | Jul 23, 2008 6:37:03 AM
I'm lovin' it.
Posted by: Sean, Torrington CT | Jul 23, 2008 6:55:53 AM
ugh it would piss the crap out of me to live across the street from the golden arches
Posted by: elchampino | Jul 23, 2008 6:55:53 AM
"DOOO YOOOUUU WANT FRIES WITH THAT>???????!!!!"
NO, but I'll give you a cup of SHUT THE HELL UP! You're in my world now grandma!
Posted by: cherie | Jul 23, 2008 6:59:42 AM
Jim, it's not letting me post my comment...
Basically, MD's sucks, I used to work there, and even now, half my life later, I still cringe at the smell of the grease when people bring it to work.
Posted by: Kestrelmas | Jul 23, 2008 7:05:12 AM
SUE THEM!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: | Jul 23, 2008 7:37:04 AM
I grew up in RI about 4 blocks away from one of McD's first stores. No drive-thru at that time, but on a summer night you could hear RocknRoll from the car radios, burnouts, and occasinal cheers. I went to sleep with the smell of french fries if the wind was right, and the night sky casting a golden glow. Cheeseburgers were 25 cents, and my parents warned us to stay away from that rough crowd. As if.
Posted by: thomas | Jul 23, 2008 7:45:11 AM
I'm waiting with baited breath for the McUpdate to this story... seems like an easy enough problem to fix though. Do these people just have super sonic hearing, or are the other neighbors content to listen to people ordering food at all hours?
Posted by: Reno | Jul 23, 2008 8:51:38 AM
Better to wait with "bated" breath. "Baited" breath is pretty stinky.
Posted by: | Jul 23, 2008 8:55:23 AM
there's an apartment building next to a gas station in our city and I heard from a former resident that the station was so loud that you could here everything that went on there, from loud music to arguing to the dinging of the bells, she said it was much much much louder than she ever expected and had moved out by the time I met her. My guess is that this stuff really is as loud as people say.
It sort of reminds me of my grandmother's farm town, there was so little activity and so much wide open space that you could hear people's tvs across the fields, hear pickup softball games at the high school field and hear the lonely far off sound of the trains as they brought the steel from the factories across the long tracks to their final destination in detroit factories. I still remember waking up to the sound of a rooster at 5am or so and lying in bed listening to the flap flap flap of farm women in slippers walking out to their mailboxes to pick up the newspapers- and these were farms! They were NOT close together. It's just that there were no other sounds unlike a city with all the cars.
Posted by: DCer | Jul 23, 2008 11:36:44 AM
I miss the sound of a bird in flight overhead. There's something you don't hear in cities either. The bird are there, but it's too noisy to hear them. Shame.
Posted by: Reno | Jul 23, 2008 11:42:51 AM
I don't know about disturbing the neighbors, but I've been to drive-thrus where the speaker was so loud I actually ducked down in my seat to escape from it. One time I asked about it, and they said they do it because lots of people have their radios turned up while they order.
Hey dumbasses, try turning down your radio for 20 seconds.
Posted by: Me | Jul 23, 2008 12:21:05 PM
But if they turned down the jams how would everyone else know what music they be representin'? "You think this is a fuc*in' costume? This is a way of life!" Couldn't resist a zombie movie quote.
Posted by: Lou Ford Prefect | Jul 23, 2008 12:30:46 PM
