DK Asks: Seen a Transaction Window in a Weird Place?

Here at DK Hardware, we've been doing a ton of work with transaction windows (mostly standard sizes, but we provide a LOT of quotes for custom transaction windows in various sizes and configurations). Lately, whenever a customer calls us up and inquires about one of these items, we've been asking, "What's the weirdest place you've ever seen a transaction window?"

The story below made the CSR laugh, so we asked the customer to write it up for us. Poor guy was having a rough day and wound up using 2 transaction windows in less than 20 minutes -- and one of them at a liquor store...

It was a Friday but it felt like a Monday (Yeah, one of those days) I just got out of my grave yard shift at my old retail job and needed some gas and a beer, or two. So I drove up to a gas station, walked up to the clerk, gave him a 20 asked him for a Gatorade, lime, and put the rest for gas. He wobbled to the end of the store and wobbled back with a Powerade….red, and asked what pump? I looked at the bottle, slowly tilted my head up and looked at him, then turned around and looked at my car… the only car in the gas station mind you, slowly tilting my head back to him I asked him… your messing with me right? I replied “Pump number 6, and the GATORADE was supposed to be lime… or yellowish green!” He replied, “That’s all we’ve got”. So, I took the walk of shame back to my car drinking a drink I didn’t want in the first place… Now I really needed a beer.

Well, off to Fox’s for a drink.  The restaurant/bar was closed, but they had a late night walk up window where you can order domestic beers and pints of booze, that would do I guess. Once I pulled up to the lot, I noticed some of my co-workers where hanging outside taking swigs of pints of bourbon or rum, so I said hi to them, and gave them the generic “I’ll be right back, let me just get some alcohol to join you in the retail job enslavement that only gets better when you learn to hate your job as much as your co-workers and you eventually end up drinking with them to make life a little bit better” hand gesture…Yeah, there is a hand gesture for that. You know it if you’ve worked in retail.

So, while standing in line to get to another transaction window, I’m behind a guy that’s beyond strung out and a guy that can’t barely stand shows up behind me… “This should be interesting” I said to myself. The guy behind me starts doing the “hiccup-cough” with a side of burps, if you’ve been around a person like this you know it’s not going to end well for this poor inebriated soul, or the people around him. The guy in front of me has a seat on the floor, and passes out, so I gently walk over him when I hear the window clerk shout, “NEXT!”  “Hey, bud. Pint of Jack and a six pack of Yuengling.” He brings over the stuff (yeah, because these walk up beer/booze windows always feel like drug transactions) and says $6.50. So I pull out my card and he stops me mid card retrieval, “Cash only, there is an ATM over there” and he points towards it.

I withdraw a 20 from the ATM and get nailed a 5 dollar fee, mind you I’m spending $6.50… Go back to the window, pay up and sit with my work buddies exchanging stories and waiting for the sunrise. This was probably, not the most awkward place I’ve seen a transaction window, but the most entertaining story with two transaction windows.

- Jimmy C, Hialeah FL

So, have you seen a transaction window in a strange place? Let us know!