This should be fun

I leave for a job interview in the States on Wednesday and return the following day. If you don't see any new posts after Thursday, you will know that I was detained and/or denied by Immigration at the airport. I can't wait to test this out. Wish me luck in both the interview and the re entry into Canada and enjoy your holiday weekend everyone!

Boycotting Tim Horton's

I had the TV running one day as it makes nice background noise if the volume is low enough. On this particular occasion, a commercial caught my attention. I turned to see the last few seconds of a Tim Horton's ad for iced coffee. They were introducing new item on their menu for the summer. I love iced coffee and despise Tim Horton's Ice Caps. Might was well go to 7-11 for a blue slurpee and end up with just about the same thing. I didn't think much of the ad at the time, but then I saw it again a few days later and I was craving an iced coffee by then. I love Starbucks, but there just isn't one close to my house, so I don't often get to go there.

I decide to order an iced coffee next time I am at Tim Horton's. I wait in line at the local gas station which has a Timmy's. I review the overhead menu and notice that iced coffee is not on their list. I think perhaps this is due to the newness of the item and the menu has just not been updated yet. I asked the clerk for an iced coffee and she looked at me like I was balancing a pile of green jello on my head. I told her that I had seen a TV commercial advertising this new item and still, she looked at me like I was from outer space. She replied, "I don't know what you are talking about." I figured that perhaps these little gas station variety Tim Horton's just didn't carry this item and I would check at one of the 'real' Tim Horton's.

The following weekend, I ran out for coffee and hot chocolate for the family on Saturday morning as is my custom. I went to a 'real' Tim Horton's and asked again for iced coffee. Again, I was confronted with a blank stare. This particular clerk was rude (I find that to be common place around here) and replied, "We don't have that here and never have." Ok fine. I order a regular coffee as a substitute and go on my way.

Another week passes and the TV is droning on the background. Another iced coffee commercial comes on. This time, my husband is near enough that I tell him to watch. I just wanted a witness that, in fact, I wasn't completely delusional. Ok, so there are at least 2 people on this planet that have seen this commercial and I am sure, none of the Tim Horton's employees are among them. I even checked the Tim Horton's website and couldn't find any mention if iced coffee.

I make one final push to obtain the iced coffee from Tim Horton's the following weekend, but I try a different store. I ask the clerk about it and she replies, "I saw the ads too, but iced coffee won't be carried in this area." Well, at least now I know I am not insane and I make the special trip to Starbucks to get the good stuff.

No more Tim Horton's for me. I am waging my own personal boycott and vow never to return. I feel driven to make signs and gather people to help me hold those signs. We can walk in circles around the Tim Horton's store and sing songs or chant, " What do we want?" "Iced coffee!" "When do we want it?" "Now!" I am willing to even purchase a bullhorn for this.

I am sure that the paper worshiping Canadian government employees are behind this scheme to deny all Canadians and foreign tourists alike their iced coffee! They are probably hording all of it in their little government buildings with their little government cubicles, laughing at all of us.