Drive through flu jab

Next week I shall be having my flu jab. In the car park at the Eden Project. I will drive into a marked bay, wind my window down, get the jab, drive away. Sponsored by McDonalds [no, I made that last bit up, although you might think they missed a marketing opportunity there].

This sounds such a cool idea, I wondered what other aspects of life would be amenable to the drive through approach.

Obviously drive through fast food and coffee shops are familiar and, as a result of the pandemic, prescription pick ups and Covid testing now take place but I'm thinking outside the box.

I discovered that you can do drive through marriage in - guess where - Las Vegas.

How does that work? Do the bride and groom arrive from opposite sides of the drive through booth? In that case how does "you may now kiss the bride" work? Weird.

Also in the US - of course - mourners at a funeral can drive by at the funeral home to express their condolences. And a Congressman in Pennsylvania has a drive through window for constituency consultations. And McDonalds opened a ski through service - McSki - in Sweden.

There's nothing particularly wacky about these in the New Normal.

How about a drive through tree? That's just silly, you say. What would be the point? Good question.

Watch the roof rack though.

I'm not a Catholic so I probably shouldn't comment on their affairs but a drive through confessional seems an obvious application.

How about a drive through postman? Pull up outside the post office, scan your ID, QR code

or whatever; pick up your mail and deposit your pre-stamped letters to be sent. We would no longer need posties or draughty letter boxes and I would no longer receive incessant piles of junk mail. Very COVID-friendly. Sign me up!

They could even operate a "share a meal" service. Instead of food bank containers in supermarkets (always positioned after the checkout, so that I slap my forehead and mutter "darn it, forgotten it again"), those of us inclined to cooking delicious meals could deposit a lasagne (here's one I made earlier)

or whatever at the post office and people who need food banks could be given a food box when they pulled up. An obvious flaw in this is that people who need food banks maybe don't have a car, so there would have to be cycle through facilities. Or a lane for buses.

I'd quite like my government to consider these obvious and practical steps instead of wasting valuable time coming up with crazy schemes to use water cannon to create waves to push back migrant boats in the Channel. Or building floating walls in the sea. Or constructing an asylum processing centre on St Helena

(it worked for Napoleon). FYI I am not making these up, nor is it April 1st (at least not when I am writing this stuff).

And I'm not going to get into politics on this blog. Except maybe a drive through asylum processing centre:

"just pull over here, madam. Got your ID? No ID? Please do a U turn and drive to Terminal SH for the ferry to St Helena. Have a nice  day"