I was once at a conference in Galveston, Texas.
I was once at a conference in Galveston, Texas. I and some other scientists, mostly from Europe got hungry at 23:00 or so. We walked to the nearby Danny's or Wendy's but it was closed. When we walked away we saw that the drive through was open so we walked in. Strangely, nobody answered at the pole where you talk to the person. Then a car came up, we stepped aside, and someone started talking! So we walked to the car and said, hey that's nice, we thought nobody was there?... And the guy went nuts over that we were trying to steal his order or something... Wow... we stepped back a bit and when he drove on we followed him to the window where we, just as the car left, saw a woman screaming at us that "there is a camera on you!!!" While she smashed the window shut we tried to tell her: "But we have money we just want to eat?" It was one of the strangest experiences in my life. Later on I realized it was quite a bit threatening as well. Later we heard from another colleague that he was questioned by police in a not-so-friendly way about what he was doing (he was walking along the road to check out the beach.) During the trip I took after the conference I saw a drive-through ATM and a drive-through pharmacy. And I spoke to a guy who had been to a drive through funeral! I guess it explains a bit why Google Now doesn't work for me (here in the Netherlands), it keeps pushing me into either public transport or my car while almost all traveling I do is combination of biking, walking and public transport. I once had a student from Bulgaria, for her it was normal to walk to school for more than an hour. That would be considered strange here as well although biking for an hour to school is certainly not unheard of (for kids).
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Hehe, yeah I'm not sure when John Stewart would have worked there or what the pain points were for him, but he worked there for a bit.
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I was once at a conference in Galveston, Texas.
I was once at a conference in Galveston, Texas. I and some other scientists, mostly from Europe got hungry at 23:00 or so. We walked to the nearby Danny's or Wendy's but it was closed. When we walked away we saw that the drive through was open so we walked in. Strangely, nobody answered at the pole where you talk to the person. Then a car came up, we stepped aside, and someone started talking! So we walked to the car and said, hey that's nice, we thought nobody was there?... And the guy went nuts over that we were trying to steal his order or something... Wow... we stepped back a bit and when he drove on we followed him to the window where we, just as the car left, saw a woman screaming at us that "there is a camera on you!!!" While she smashed the window shut we tried to tell her: "But we have money we just want to eat?" It was one of the strangest experiences in my life. Later on I realized it was quite a bit threatening as well. Later we heard from another colleague that he was questioned by police in a not-so-friendly way about what he was doing (he was walking along the road to check out the beach.) During the trip I took after the conference I saw a drive-through ATM and a drive-through pharmacy. And I spoke to a guy who had been to a drive through funeral! I guess it explains a bit why Google Now doesn't work for me (here in the Netherlands), it keeps pushing me into either public transport or my car while almost all traveling I do is combination of biking, walking and public transport. I once had a student from Bulgaria, for her it was normal to walk to school for more than an hour. That would be considered strange here as well although biking for an hour to school is certainly not unheard of (for kids).
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