Drunken Wee-Hours Whataburger Drive-Thrus: A Proud Texas Tradition

[kentauros]

I thought this story was funny, c/o The Houston Press :D

Drunken Wee-Hours Whataburger Drive-Thrus: A Proud Texas Tradition

Shamefully, all too many of us have been there: out in the bars since happy hour, it's now a quarter-past closing time. We stagger to the car and suddenly remember we haven't eaten a thing other than beer nuts since lunch. Hunger cuts through the fog of drunkenness, but what's open at that ungodly hour?

The good old Whataburger drive-thru, that's what. We head over, eyes flicking to the rear-view mirror, hoping no cops pick up our fumes. And suddenly, there it is, that ivory-and-traffic-cone-orange beacon of greasy salvation.

Sadly, many, many others have had the same idea. The line snakes all the way around the building, some cars full of drunken twentysomethings merrily singing along, others ferrying morose drunks like you, headed home alone or to an unhappy partner.

The minutes drag by. You tune in some classic rock. You finally make your order: double-meat, double-cheese with everything, and extra grilled jalapeños. Extra large those fries while you're at it. You're already gonna be hating life manana, so you might as well add some lower GI distress into the mix, and hell, maybe if you just pulled over to the side of the parking lot and ate all that food, it might give you that little boost of sobriety that could save you from a DWI.

And still the line drags on and on and on...


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[AgainsttheCrown]

1. I worked off-duty at Whataburger this past Saturday Night.

It was the first time that I didn't have to get a drunk out of the drive-thru.

Whether it's an anomaly or progress, it calls for a :toast:

...of a non-alcoholic beverage of course.

[kentauros]

2. I'll toast to that!

With my bottle of kombucha tea (it's fermented, minus the alcohol.) :toast:

And welcome to DU, too! :hi:

[sonias]

3. Too funny

:toast: to non-drunk driving even in drive-throughs.

[WolverineDG]

4. I worked at Whataburger in high school

thankfully, before they were open 24/7 AND before the one I was at had a drive-thru.

Still saw lots of drunks on Friday & Saturday nights though. They always wondered why I volunteered to sweep & mop the front on those nights. I found tons of $ that way (mostly ones & fives, but a couple of times, I found $20s!! That was a lot of money back in the 80s)

dg

[blogslut]

5. Shameful

Respectable drunks park their cars and go inside to the Waffle House. ;)

[ceile]

6. That is so true!

Spent many a late night in the Whataburger drive through...Jack N' the Box too...oh, and Denny's...

[Jack_DeLeon]

7. I love Whataburger....

especially at 2:20am.

I used to live on Padre Island here in Corpus for a bit, that was the only Whataburger that I know of that isnt 24hours. It was such a damn tease when me and my friends would leave the bar right next to it, because about that time we would have loved a Whataburger, but alas it closed at 11pm. I lived down the street from it so me and my friends would just walk, but a few people I would talk too after the bars closed lived in town and they would talk about how they had to drive to some other Whataburger to get food before they went home. I guess that one location just did not like money because they would have had a monopoly on food service after midnight out there.