Maybe it's because of the wind, and the cold, and the unusually long winters.

But whatever the reason, almost everything in Wyoming is available through drive-thru.

First, it was food. McDonald's, Burger King, even traditionally sit-down restaurants such as Chili's made their delicious grub available to the public while people waited in their vehicles.

Then came drive-thru pharmacies. Drugs to go, if you will. You pull up to the window with a prescription and leave with a bottle of whatever was on the sheet. Convenient. Wonderful.

Drive-thru liquor stores were next, which is possibly not the best idea in the world, given that alcohol and driving tend not to mix. But as long as you leave the bottles unopened and in the bags, great. Another modern-day convenience that allows you not to leave the car.

In some states, with interest in the election growing, drive-thru voter registration booths have been set up. On the last day of registration in Utah, for example, Salt Lake County saw thousands of new voters - through their car windshields, that is.

If Wyoming didn't allow same-day registration, I'm sure drive-thru voting would be available here. Our county clerks are savvy and keep up with the times, after all.

And recently, in Laramie County, the drive-thru convenience phenomenon allowed 661 residents to be immunized without leaving the comfort of their front seats.

According to a brief in the Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, the Cheyenne-Laramie County Health Department provided influenza vaccines to hundreds of eager but time-pressed drivers and passengers.

Customers - or patients? - "drove into [Frontier Park] and collected shots through vehicle windows," the article said.

Rather than making the drive-thru scenario about people too busy to leave their vehicles long enough to protect themselves from disease, the article claims the new system helps to test the health department's ability to respond to the next potential plague.

"The risk of spreading disease decreases if patients are separated," the article said. "A drive-through method restricts people to individual vehicles instead of amassing patients into a single building."

Next time I'm too lazy to go inside Dairy Queen or Wendy's, I have the perfect excuse: I didn't want my fellow customers to make me sick.

Really, I'm just thinking of my own health. "Baconator, fries and a Frosty, please."

Contact reporter Megan Lee at (307) 266-0616 or megan.lee@trib.com