Second to last story: oh yes working drive through is always a twilight zone experience. My first job way back when dinosaurs roamed the earth in 1977 was at a Jack In The Box in the Chicago suburbs. Drive through was on the side of the building with a sharp 90 degree turn across the immediate front the building with a sharp drop of about 4 or 5 feet to the sidewalk due to the place being on a fairly busy intersection. Friday and Saturday night in particular were fun because the restaurant ran 24 hours and we would get the late night bar crowd coming in after the bars closed and being the late 70s and lax DUI enforcement customers being a bit " illuminated " was very common. Lost track of how many got their order,saw traffic passing by directly in front of them and despite the traffic being notably lower than them would proceed to punch it and launch themselves off that drop I mentioned hanging up their car in the process. One employee in the process of handing an order out suddenly hears tires screaming and an engine revving and all of a sudden is handing the order to a totally different car. Seemed the drunk in the car at the speaker was three sheets to the wind, was told to pump to the window and just floored it and rammed the car at the window. Fortunately the drhit was OK just shook up but their car was pretty FUBAR. We did have some fun on slow nights when someone obviously pretty blasted was walking by one of the guys would get on the speaker and from the clown on top the box start doing the psst psst hey buddy bit to engage them and after a bit ask them if they had a pair of pliers to help get me out of this box.
Yeah. I've been around the gun hobby most of my life and I know exactly what the guy who wrote this looked like, AND the tacticool abominations in his gun safe. XD
Usually you don't since most PXs and NEXs are on base, and you can't get on base without the appropriate IDs or authorized chaperone. But there are some PX and NEX locations near base, especially if the post is one of the smaller ones, or are on foreign soil. Those you need Military/dependent/veteran IDs for. A couple of the ones I have been to usually have an MP/MA on duty at the door checking IDs. But it's been 12 years since I was active duty so things might have changed since then and this story might have been completely accurate. Sadly I don't live close enough to a NEX to make it worth shopping there. Would spend more in gas getting there and back than we would save on groceries.
@@malachibarnard8414 Not sure if it is still that way, but NEX and PX don't charge state or fed sales tax on anything, and most of the PX and NEX I've been to, save a few that were literally a box with tobacco, drinks, and a few gas pumps, have been effectively a department store. Best one I was ever at was the NEX at Pearl Harbor. It was a literal 2 story mall including a full food court.
