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Tim Hortons, for you Yanks, is a nation-wide chain of coffee shops, famous for its doughts and coffee. It's a Canadian institution. They're everywhere; hell, there are nearly twenty in the town of 100,000 where I call home.
Anyway, I frequent the Timmy's by my house regularily, but the service is so incredibly bad. This evening I stopped in for a turkey breast sandwich. I informed the woman at the till what I wanted and watched her as she stared at the massive register in search of an appropriate button. By some small miracle she found said button and after pressing it, she quizically met my eyes and asked, "What would you like with that?"
"Nothing, thank you; just the sandwich," I replied.
"Uh, um, would you like the ranch dressing?"
This threw me for a bit of a loop. Normally they ask what you would like on the sandwich at the counter where their sandwich-making instruments and paraphenalia are located. "Uh, yeah," I said. Sensing that the muppet in front of me was going to ah heck my order I decided to fire off my other requests for the sandwich, "Could you please use cucumber in place of tomato?"
She nodded. "Would you like lettuce?"
"Yes, of course."
So, the muppet walks over and begins to assemble my dinner. She slices the bagette, spreads the dressing, adds the cucumber, then the lettuce and... starts wrapping up the sandwich. "Excuse me. Where's the meat?"
"Oh, I thought you just wanted the sandwich."
Retard.
Visiting a Tim Hortons during the morning rush is simply asking for it. There is always a twenty or thirty car line-up through the drive-thru window and the queue of people inside is almost always guarenteed to be poking out the front entrance. If you do, however, find yourself lucky enough to reach the till be prepared to repeat your order fifteen times while using your hands to physically point-out what you would like. If you're looking for more than a coffee, forget it.
Now, this lot apparently pride themselves on their alleged speedy service and do not accept debit cards, "...in order to maintain [their] quick service." Fine. Normally I would not take issue with this fact, but their service is most certainly not quick.
Anyway, I frequent the Timmy's by my house regularily, but the service is so incredibly bad. This evening I stopped in for a turkey breast sandwich. I informed the woman at the till what I wanted and watched her as she stared at the massive register in search of an appropriate button. By some small miracle she found said button and after pressing it, she quizically met my eyes and asked, "What would you like with that?"
"Nothing, thank you; just the sandwich," I replied.
"Uh, um, would you like the ranch dressing?"
This threw me for a bit of a loop. Normally they ask what you would like on the sandwich at the counter where their sandwich-making instruments and paraphenalia are located. "Uh, yeah," I said. Sensing that the muppet in front of me was going to ah heck my order I decided to fire off my other requests for the sandwich, "Could you please use cucumber in place of tomato?"
She nodded. "Would you like lettuce?"
"Yes, of course."
So, the muppet walks over and begins to assemble my dinner. She slices the bagette, spreads the dressing, adds the cucumber, then the lettuce and... starts wrapping up the sandwich. "Excuse me. Where's the meat?"
"Oh, I thought you just wanted the sandwich."
Retard.
Visiting a Tim Hortons during the morning rush is simply asking for it. There is always a twenty or thirty car line-up through the drive-thru window and the queue of people inside is almost always guarenteed to be poking out the front entrance. If you do, however, find yourself lucky enough to reach the till be prepared to repeat your order fifteen times while using your hands to physically point-out what you would like. If you're looking for more than a coffee, forget it.
Now, this lot apparently pride themselves on their alleged speedy service and do not accept debit cards, "...in order to maintain [their] quick service." Fine. Normally I would not take issue with this fact, but their service is most certainly not quick.
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