This morning I made the mistake of popping into a Tim Horton's here in Toronto. No, the coffee was fine, that sorta-consistent beverage they extrude, but the inside temperature of that store made me think I had stepped into an outdoor Tim's during the winter.
It was so cold in there -- the specific outlet is not important -- that I could not stop shivering from the time I sat down with my used-to-be-hot coffee to when my friend, of ample insulation, and I left a couple of hours later.
("Did you think about leaving instead of shivering and whining, Barry?")
As a friend of mine said, years ago, "people tend to think of air-conditioning as refrigeration".
Maybe Tim Horton's doesn't like loitering.
5 comments:
You mad, Bro"? Did no one 'pay it forward,' and provide a free coffee?
Not mad. Just a Tim's bit. And more 'observational' humour; I'm reading Bill Bryson's book The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America which put me in that mood...
I was nonplussed. In my day a motel room cost about twelve dollars. "I don't want to buy the room", I explained, "I just want to sleep in it for one night".
I rarely go into a Tim Horton's. Stan Mikita's, yes....
Our hometown movie theater always had this line in their ads: "Cooled by refrigeration." No kidding! One needed a jacket or sweater to go see a movie in the summer.
To use a '70s/'80s saying: "That's gross."
Think of all the electricity gobbled up by air-conditioning set at meat-locker levels.
Well if common sense prevailed, that population of that place would only be half as much.
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