This is to all the mommas out there with little ones. You know that feeling. You are driving, starving, haven’t had the chance to eat yet for the day. You go through the dreaded fast food/drive through options in your head so you don’t have to go in. You remember the last time you went in to pick up and you were the one with the toddler who spilled the smoothie on the floor as you waited for your food. Now this time you have a new baby in a carrier and a toddler. I think to myself, there is no way I can carry it all. Well today I did it. Instead of a drive through I went to a restaurant that doesn’t have drive thru or carry out and called from my car. I simply asked the employee if she was allowed to bring the momma in the minivan her food rather than me go in and she did! Greatest lunch ever and one happy momma! What a break through! No more drive thrus for this momma! Apparently people do this? She said people do it all the time! I did give her a nice tip.
The above tip is especially helpful when you are hungry and you have little ones sleeping in the car. You get creative. I once went to Chipotle, drove around the parking lot and bought a girl lunch if she would bring me out food. My son was sleeping in the car after a long doctor appointment and I was starving, as I usually was from nursing. I can’t tell you how many places I have called and asked them if I could pay an employee to run my order out. Jimmy Johns, Little Caesar’s and Quiznos are great about this and deserve a little shout out. Chipotle turned me down however. That is a big x against them for a while. Or at least until I get hungry again. HAHA!!