Drive Thru Syndrome

I have Drive Thru Syndrome.

I get really really nervous in the drive thru. Make sense of this one for me. I have been on TV countless times, done interviews, been live, made nerve racking calls but when I get to the drive thru I'm as nervous at Katie Couric attempting to do primetime.

I feel like I have to be prepared with an order. Like there is a window of opportunity there and if you miss it you are wasting their time and everyone else behind you. I get nervous, really nervous.

My friend told me last night, why can't you just say "can you give me a second?"

Why do I need a second? Did I not already consciously decide that I wanted Taco Bueno. (I know it was toss up between Bell) I already had a food item in mind or I would not have gone there in the first place. It was the fiesta rice. Anyway, It's not like I sit there and say to myself "ahhhhhh Pollo Loco...never been there, Let's go sample something off of their drive thru menu."

NO we go through drive thrus because we already know what we want! And, I think I have drive thru syndrome because I don't know what I want. EVER. I'm just going through life guessing.

At the drive thru last night, I ordered a combination platter, chicken with no chips and extra rice.

the attendant responded, "DR PEPPER With NO ICE?"

"No" I said, " No chips and extra rice"

"Is that all" he said.

"um".... I said with clammy palms.

"PLEASE PULL AROUND."

As I pulled away from the final window I notice I had extra chips and no rice.