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[slink]

Do you at least have drive through pharmacies? What about restaurants with curb-side pickup?

No.
And, yes, McDonald's.
McDonald's is about the only place I know of over here that does drivethru. The only ATM I have seen that I could consider a drive to one, you're not actually supposed to park right next to, but we all do.
But apart from that, we just don't do the whole drivethru thing. No drivethru pharmacies (I can't tell if you were just taking the piss or not... you really have those? It kind of makes sense, but then we always have to wait so long for them to get our drugs that it probably wouldn't work out here).

And well, the only thing I could, at first, consider a mention of piss shivers over here, was when my mate was convinced he was going to die because his testacles started twitching. Piss shivers is just a whole new phenomenon for me.

[CortJstr]

Do you at least have drive through pharmacies? What about restaurants with curb-side pickup?

No.
And, yes, McDonald's.
McDonald's is about the only place I know of over here that does drivethru. The only ATM I have seen that I could consider a drive to one, you're not actually supposed to park right next to, but we all do.
But apart from that, we just don't do the whole drivethru thing. No drivethru pharmacies (I can't tell if you were just taking the piss or not... you really have those? It kind of makes sense, but then we always have to wait so long for them to get our drugs that it probably wouldn't work out here).

Curbside is different than McDonald's. It's when you call what's normally a sit-down restaurant ahead of time and order food. You drive up and park and they run out with your food and take your cash/credit card. It's become very popular at large chains like Outback and Macaroni Grill.

The pharmacies (which are real) work much the same way just not with new prescriptions or places you've never been before. You phone in a refill  then drive up to a window to pick up the actual drugs. Since you've been there before they already have all your personal and insurance info in their computer, including how many refills you have left. You just have to call 15 minutes or more before actually driving up.

[Nabubrush]

Well shit, Slink, don't tell me you don't have drive-thru liquor stores over there. That's a shame. We had a couple in Anchorage, though they eventually closed. I know there are other states that have them, though.

Also, I never get piss-shiver, so when I read about it in the Straight Dope (and here), I just had to imagine.

And isn't Ray a bundle of incongruities? He could buy and sell these people (cats). It would have been amusing to see him say something like "Yeah, I pissed all over the floor, Doc. You should be happy I didn't pee in the middle of the waiting room, dammit."

[AlohaDawg]

Slink- we have drive through almost everything here.

There are drive through wedding chapels, drive through funeral parlors, drive-in movies, every fast food place, some not so fast (like Outback Steakhouse and Chili's, almost every bank has 2-3 drive-up windows and a drive up ATM, drive up coffe kiosks, pharmacies, and some motels let you drive up to a window, pay, get your keys and drive around to your room.

It's a car society!

not joking about the wedding chapels and funeral parlors, either...

[Paisley]

I thought I knew what that was (also called pee shivers), but then again it's never made me piss all over the floor.  That usually happens due to blockage or drunken bad aim.  So I looked it up on WebMD and, strangely, nothing.  So I googled it. [snip ... er ... cut ...er, leave out the rest]

Thanks. As a member of the Ladies' Auxiliary, I had no idea. I mean, as an avid camper (read: getting drunk and stoned in state parks), I did learn how to pee standing up (it is possible), but I attributed the shivers to the night chill hitting my gluteus broadicus, not to orthostatic phenomena.

I'm still worried about Beef, though. Assuming Lyle kept the chamber (or clip) full, there are still some rounds left in that gun. Did anyone think to check on him? The absence of blogging makes me wonder.

[slink]

drive through funeral parlors

But... But...
Weird!
And Nabu, I always thought the idea of drive through liquir was bizarre. Like being able to buy liquor at gas stations. I can understand why, but something about it just doesn't quite work out for me. Then again, I would be fairly happy (except for good whisky and Corona) to see alcohol outlawed tomorrow.

[miles]

Well shit, Slink, don't tell me you don't have drive-thru liquor stores over there. That's a shame. We had a couple in Anchorage, though they eventually closed. I know there are other states that have them, though.

Also, I never get piss-shiver, so when I read about it in the Straight Dope (and here), I just had to imagine.

I believe Arizona has drive-thru liqour stores.  You can also buy liqour in the grocery store down there.  In Washington and Utah, the other places I've lived, you have to buy booze in a state liqour store.  In Utah, you can't even get wine in a grocery store.  Although the Summum religion, based in Salt Lake City, is able to manafacture and sell wine, although apparently they call it nectar.

I should have known Straight Dope would have had something on it.  I think I get the piss shiver about 10% of the time, and only after a serious piss.  You know, the kind that's about as good as a typical orgasm.

[AlohaDawg]

We had drive through beer stores in Ohio but for hard liquor you had to go to the state store. I think they've gotten away from that.

In Illinois and here in Hawaii, it's every kind of beer and booze in the supermarkets and gas stations.

[jough]

Yeah, the state of Pennsylvania is the largest purchaser of liquor in the world, since all hard hooch is sold in state stores, and we're a bunch of lushes here.

[Mantonio]

We had drive through beer stores in Ohio but for hard liquor you had to go to the state store.

Well, here in Wyoming we have honest to God drive through liquor stores. Not just beer, but such as Ten High and vodka items as well. I always assumed that was the norm until Garrison Keilor paid a visit to Laramie one time and did a little monologue about what a strange place Wyoming was. He seemed totally shocked that there were drive through _liquor_ stores.

Anyway, my stepfather informs me Wyoming has nothing on Louisiana, where apperently do they not only have drive through liquor stores, but you can also purchase coctails through drive through. This would have been about 20 years ago, but still. That's kinda fucked up.

[V-Adore]

I've seen drive-through daiquiri establishments in Louisiana as a fairly regular fixture. There was some discussion of upcoming difficulties with changes to open-container laws (given as Louisiana's current open-container laws are remarkably drinkin'-while-drivin'-friendly) which might endanger them, but no word on that yet.

[CortJstr]

Yeah, the state of Pennsylvania is the largest purchaser of liquor in the world, since all hard hooch is sold in state stores, and we're a bunch of lushes here.

And you people can't even buy beer at 7-11. The concept of Beer Distributors still weirds me out. Bars selling 6-packs even more so. In Virginia our bars only have ABC-on licenses (Alcoholic Beverage Commission-on premisis). Anything above 6% or so has be sold at state-run ABC stores, which just this year started having Sunday hours.

[Bozack]

In regards to liquor establishments, it took me a really long time to remember that they don't just sell Jack Daniels in drug stores in New York, like they do at home. This, for the first few weeks of college, made a lot of people think I was an asshole when they said, "Man, I wish I had beer/whiskey/libations," and I said, "Wait, there's a 24-hour CVS down the street! KICKASS!"

[andalucia]

Good god, Bozack, that's ridiculous.
Moving from Ontario to Quebec impressed me enough since I'm close enough to their drinking age that it's not been a problem, and can thusly get beer, all the way up to horrible horrible forties of ten-percent, in the dep across the street, and wine in the supermarket.  
But for liquor, yeah, have to go to the gov't-owned SAQ which is alllways on strike and more likely to check my ID.

[wombat]

drive through funeral parlors

I need to make sure that I die in Hawaii, now.