European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Its time to shutter Linda Sharp Cox news service Tanta a the drive thru is As much a part of american culture As football and Apple Pic. It started with drive thru banking then it progressed to fast food restaurants. It was t Long before the dry cleaners jumped on the bandwagon. Now we be got everything from drive thru car washes to drive thru convenience stores. But i hear the drive thru May soon go the Way of outdoor clothes lines and Black and White television sets. California a always on the leading Edge of technological and ecological advances a is considering a ban on drive thru banking. The rationale is that it will alleviate an increasing pollution problem. Its no secret that a gasoline engine is least efficient when it is at Idle. All those Rolls royces. Mar codes Bunzes and jaguars lined up at the Hollywood first National Are making not Only Cash deposits but Large pollution deposits As Welt. I wonder who is going to Tell Zsa Zsa that she and her doggies will have to walk inside to transact her business. But the More i. Think about drive thus the More i believe that eliminating them May be an idea whose Lime has come. The drive thru was initially conceived in the a name of convenience i am not yet convinced that they arc anything but a source of aggravation. Take for instance fast food restaurants. Have you Ever gotten hot French Fries at one of these windows or How Many times have you ordered Sweet Tea Only to drive off and discover that they not Only gave you unsweetened Tea some sort of Yankee conspiracy but they did no to even throw in a packet of sugar. One morning last week i stopped at one of these marvels of convenience and ordered a. Bacon egg and cheese biscuit. A Block Down the Street i discovered that they had omitted the Bacon and cheese. And heaven help you if you expect napkins or a drinking Straw. One of my favorite things to do is to watch people come out of one of those fancy High priced health clubs. There they Are their Span Dex exercise togs glistening from perspiration and they get in their vehicles and immediately drive up to the window at either the Bank the dry cleaners or the fast food restaurant. I might add that All of these establishments Are always in walking distance of the health club. Maybe the Quot too much of a Good things theory applies to exercise also. These Quot exercise buffs arc also among those lined up at the drive thru car Wash. I guess there Isnit enough bending and stooping involved in washing a car to qualify it As a real but i bet if they added an old fashioned hand Wax Job it would help Burn up those calories. As i said gasoline engines arc not very efficient while idling so drive thus consume lots of Gas. Gas mileage goes right out the window. With today a prices of that Golden liquid i would think most of us would be willing to invest a few Steps to save a few Gallons. So for once in my life 1 May agree with the californians. I could easily jump on the to restrict drive thus. Doing away with them would not Only increase personal exercise it would save us precious Gas Money. It would also go a Long Way toward cleaning up our air and helping Young athletes set world records when the olympics return to the United states in 1996. Linda Sharp is1 a professional Auto racer and teaches a Road racing course at Road Atlanta. \. Contents an excited scout learns first Aid from volunteers filling in for parents away in the persian Gulf Page 4. Jack Nicholson s a the two Jakes hits the video stores. Page 16.cover George Murphy arid a Glass of guinness sum up St. Paddy s Day the rest of the Story Page 6.feature helping out the scouts ,. Trends War video games arid some hew software books .89 Edgar Allan Poe was t a Doper after All Bush kicks presidential language around Odds amp ends .10 of for a real american commercial genealogy and Horoscope to plus 11 the world football league conies to 7v television listings. 12-14 local Cable and satellite schedules on television .15 Quot China Beach turns to the 80s readers write in about bul Hinkle Snow flak Home entertainment 16 video a reviews the Nielsen ratings Media 17 How bout a Gulf War to movie no thank this weeks films. 18-19 Julia Roberts in a flawed but winning drama Complete a4fes circuit listing classified ads. 20-23last laugh 24 Dave Barry cartoons from around the world the National Parks services has restored Edgar Allan poems Home and now plan to restore his reputation. Page 8. Sunday is a weekly supplement of the stars and stripes editors Sarah Bottorff arts Rector Sharon Kilday. Production Michelle Bucher editorial assistance Louis Pierce. A Marian Hamilton Page 2 a sunday March-17, 1991
