You can get drive through married in the US. It's literally a Mad Max society

One of the culture shocks for me when I moved to the US.

Yes. Before there were ATMs (Yes, I'm old) there were drive-through tellers, and they were replaced with ATMs before there were walk-up ATMs. Then walk-ups were given extra terminals as walk traffic increased and drive-throughs were phased out, replaced with nearby short-term parking.

Here in the States, we 🩷💚🤎LOVE🤎💚🩷 our cars.

Why wouldn't there be one?

What suprises me is that there isn't a walk up ATM. Even in banks with multiple drive up ATMs there's always at least one designed for people.

I hate drive-thrus even as a driver. The intercom is always garbage, the menu is always presented in some insane arrangement that's makes it basically impossible to peruse, paying at the window is awkward, receiving your food through the window is awkward, checking to make sure your order is correct is awkward, and to top it all off it usually takes longer than just parking and walking inside.

It is baffling to me that anyone ever willingly uses a drive-thru.

A Jack-In-The-Box in San Francisco (The Geary Street one) decided to keep its drive through open until midnight while the walk-in part closed at 8pm, which bugged me as a bicyclist. (They wouldn't serve me without a motor.)

Eventually the place opened up a walk-in window for after hours service, so I wasn't the only one bothered.

You can use cards from other banks, credit cards, and even some prepaid cards at an ATM. You may be able to do some things with the machine that the teller can't/won't do.

I’ve experienced once where the teller told me that if I’m withdrawing money under a certain amount, I should do it at the atm outside. Not sure if that rule is true or they just didn’t want to deal with it.

I don't know in America, but I've seen banks charge a fee for withdrawals at the counter.

Because then you have to use a pen like a cave man.

There are drive-thru's that are just a single ATM, no teller windows, no employees.
They're peak "lazy-entitled human"

You realize an ATM doesn't have a teller...

Not one should have to stand in that

True.

Hopefully

If you're walking into a drive thru, LIE ABOUT A MEDICAL CONDITION

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Find a walk-up ATM from a branch more deserving of your business

if possible & available.

Pro tip: Ally & Schwab (USA) reimburse ATM fees, $10 & unlimited respectively. Also some stores still do cashback for debit cards - buy a pack of gum, get $20/$50/$100.

You’d think, but my bank is actively becoming hostile towards people walking in.

My debit card literally never works at the ATM, so I just take the 2 minutes to walk in and fill out a withdrawal form. It’s fine for the occasional need for cash.

Last time, they basically told me, in the future were requiring your debit card for security. There isn’t any reason for you to come in.

Last time i talked to a teller, he walked me to a machine and explained me how it worked.

Just talk to the people inside

Some banks literally charge a fee to do the same transaction that is cheaper/free at an ATM from what I've heard.

There are things that you can do at an ATM that you can't do at some banks, or will have shorter overall wait times.

You can't always walk into a small credit union and withdraw money/deposit cash from a bank account with a different institution, but you can do that at their ATMs.

The world is such a fascinating place. I genuinely don't think I've ever seen a bank WITHOUT a drive thru. I've lived in big cities and out in the sticks.

They're really common outside cities.

Hah maybe where you live. There are a lot of places that were built under the assumption that 100% of people would drive there.

Yeah? That's where I'd start. Maybe they were at a bank that's not their own?