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[09 Mar 2005|02:40am] March 7, Again - in which I begin to NAME NAMES: I place an order not uncommon to my breakfast-eating self: 1 large tea, with "some" milk 1 butter croissant 1 large chocolate milk - all "to go" The total came to $4.27. The faithful reader will delight in what is to come. I am being served by the "black guy with glasses". Not the man reduced to purely menial tasks, but one who shall, in time, follow him. No, this is Percy. Percy has money problems. I give him a five dollar bill, two dimes, a nickel and two pennies - allowing him the pleasant and easy task of presenting me with a loonie as change. Instead, I recieve three dimes, three nickels, two quarters and FIVE pennies in change (ie. much of what I gave him, plus, ???). To explain - these folk are too quick on the draw: "Hang, on, I've got the pennies..." causes problems Biblical in both scope and scale. 5 + 2 = 7, dude. I'm given a lemon tea with honey, twice, regular milk and no croissant, twice, before the situation is regulated. A shocking display. post comment

[09 Mar 2005|02:33am] Monday, March 7th, 2005 Submitted by Ellis Island, Jr (no relation) - Run-On Sentence Edition thereof, some editing by myself. After a relatively short wait in line (kudos), I began to feel that perhaps this was my lucky day. But when it came time for my order, which included a hot chocolate with whipped cream, due to past experience I know that one must specify "not a mocha" or "don't put coffee in it", in order to get a hot chocolate, therefore in a Tim Horton's context, 'hot chocolate' does not refer to a hot chocolate (small linguistic side note) and the total was 7.11$, I did dutifully give to the young man serving me 2 toonies, 3 loonies and a quarter. It took him longer than, I daresay, a normal man to come to terms with the total money given over to him. It was possibly just under a minute. Strange, thought I. Then, when it came time to give me change, the machine did not err in displaying '0.14$'. But the man did err in only giving me a dime. Small loss for me: 0.04$; big loss for him, sometime earlier, when either through birth or lack of education, his successful reading-a-screen incidence level was set to "occasional". Woe, woe. PS. I also had to inform the guy who made the hot chocolate to put whipped cream on it. Poor Canada! post comment

[24 Feb 2005|04:00am] An Omission! Had a decent experience with my brother at the TH on Friday - got what I ordered without much fuss, but waited rather long. Food = Fair. TODAY: Why the crazy double line? One line (left side) moves smoothly - the right is slow. After much talk about how "the woman" loves her large coffee, my order is filled, initially 2nd in line, I'm served 6th... again the design of the restaurant is poor. post comment

[13 Feb 2005|10:49pm] "1 large tea with a wee bit of milk & a sesame seed bagel, toasted with butter, both to go" - 'regular tea' -"yes" - 'with milk?' - "thank you" - 'to go?' - "uh, yep..." - 'bagel's to your left' -"No, no, no cream cheese on the bagel, just some butter..." post comment

[12 Feb 2005|12:45am] Fantastic service recieved by me at the TH this afternoon. Some peeps are quick and efficient, all about business (others serve only to frustrate the customer of the counter crew)... today's v. was quick and easy, a pleasure. Thank You Mr. Tim Horton's. post comment

[11 Feb 2005|02:03am] I went in aroung 11:40 to find 4 people in line ahead of me. I got in the line served by the cute girl-next-door-Tim-Horton's-commercial-girl. She seemed to be doing her best, there was some mad shit going down on the production line. Waited in the quagmire for about five minutes. This gave me time to figure out that 1-southern-ontario-style-funky-texture-bagel+overly-milky-tea-in-a-paper-cup @ ~$3 < yoghurt+organic-fruit-juice-smoothie+bottled_water @ ~$4.50. So I left and went to the health food store on the other side. post comment

[09 Feb 2005|05:03pm] I, like most people, prefer not to eat soup with fork alone. Yes, I ordered soup for takeout and was given only a fork with which to eat it. post comment

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