Last month, a local fast food restaurant installed a Jousting ONLY drive-thru pick up window.   Unfortunately things have not worked out quite as well as the restaurant owner had planned.

                       “The idea was to save on rental space by making the drive-thru lane narrower,” says, owner, Deanna Flores.   “And to make the line move faster by having only horses running through the lane non-stop.   The first problem we discovered was that not a lot of our customers even had horses.  We had folks coming thru the lane on mules, ponies, seahorses, and even horseflies, but not many on actual horses.   So we loosened our restrictions and allowed anyone coming through the drive-thru riding any type of horse-related beast to be served.”

          Ms. Flores looks regretfully at the remnants of the drive-thru, continues.   “But then we started having other problems too.  Legal problems.  Lois Cartright, our lead cashier, was impaled when she failed to close the drive-thru window prior to giving a customer back change.  Johnny Blazo, another cashier, lost his right eye when he misjudged a bag exchange.  And then he lost his left eye when the customer came back to get some extra packs of ketchup.  Tragic.  He was going to school to become a film director in the domesticated poultry porn industry.  ???????   Then Johnny Blazo sued us.  His contention was that the restaurant was negligent for not providing him with an appropriate suit of armor while he was on duty.   Nonsense, because we provided all of our drive-thru workers with a sturdy baseball cap, fitted with a sun visor made of recycled plastic from our very own individually wrapped cheese slices.”

                   Ultimately the Jousting ONLY drive-thru window failed and the restaurant filed for chapter 13 bankruptcy.   However, Johnny Blazo’s lawsuit against Ms. Flores was dismissed when the judge in the case ruled that two functioning eyes were not required for work as a director in the domesticated poultry porn industry.