Monday, September 30, 2024

A Long Line for a Little Coffee

I had a physio session at the hospital on Friday morning, and since it was Friday and also a nice day, I decided to treat ourselves by bringing home a takeout breakfast from Tim Hortons.

Sue and I talked about it before I left, and we both wanted the same thing: a maple bacon egg sandwich plus two large coffees, two hash browns, and two apple fritters for dessert. With tax, it came to $20, which is a heckuva lot, but that is not what this is about.

What really surprised me was the order of the person in front of me. We had been about ten cars back in the line, but when we got to the window, all that she got was one coffee – a small coffee. Just a small coffee! Only a small coffee! One tiny little coffee! She lined up for one, little, itty bitty coffee!


Back to our breakfast: Sue usually just orders egg sans meat, but she tried the maple bacon last time and really liked it: me too, but that is nothing new.

We can order it in multiple ways: English muffin, croissant, and who knows what else. We got it on a biscuit, but I could only find photos of the croissant and English muffins that I have posted ↑ there  and ← there.

17 comments:

  1. Maybe the coffee is so good she waited??? I don't know. Funny what we will wait for isn't it?

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  2. One little coffee. I hope it was an excellent cup. I would go for the croissant.

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  3. I'd have a bacon muffin, no egg, no coffee. Actually, being a cheapskate, I'd go home and prepare it there, but maybe out takeaways are not as good as yours.

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  4. Lots of protein for you. Many people buy a cup of coffee at Starbucks. Not that unusual.

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  5. The sandwich sounds good.

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  6. Funny about waiting for a tiny drink. Unless of course she's in a passionate illicit relationship with the person at the window, and the coffee was an excuse. Or maybe she's the mom of the server making sure they're at work. Or maybe she's a stealth shopper from a rival chain, checking on wait times, coffee quality etc. See how much trouble I could have got you into, blurting out all this stuff??

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  7. My older daughter will order an 8 ounce coffee which to me is--why bother? LOL I think $20 for two breakfast sandwiches and coffee, plus dessert is an excellent price.

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  8. Mackers is always convenient for any breakfast in any country town

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  9. That sounds like a long wait for such a small order. Curious!

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  10. I don't think I would wait that long for a coffee, but maybe she whiled the time away on her phone. Your breakfast sounds right tasty!

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  11. We enjoyed Tim Horton's when we were in Canada. Maple bacon sounds wonderful. Tim Horton's must have excellent coffee!

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  12. Maybe that person needed the coffee to stay awake and safer driving the road, in front of you, eh? Linda in Kansas

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  13. You are making me hungry even though I had breakfast. Maple bacon. Sigh. That might have been me with the one small coffee. I use the time in a lineup if there is one to make needed phone calls.

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  14. Agreed that the price seemed high for what was received, but then as long as you enjoyed the treat that was most important. It did seem odd to wait so long for a single and small cup of coffee.

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  15. I'd have to be desperate for a coffee to wait in that line, I wondered too if she was traveling and needed some caffeine.

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  16. I am ashamed at the kind of person I become in the drive-thru...struggling to hear, struggling to communicate, easily angered...when my kids were teens they used to chastise me to no end but it's always, always a gong show.

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