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.

7 comments:

Val Ewing said...

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

Sandra said...

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

jabblog said...

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.

gigi-hawaii said...

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

RedPat said...

The sandwich sounds good.

Boud said...

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??

Margaret said...

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.