Wherein I Plead With the Rare White Elk.

[Gravekeeper]

As for the dude who wanted a new service worker... I can sort of appreciate what he was saying... a bit. I presume that the people getting sent wanted to tell him how to be saved.. very damn annoying if you don't want to hear it. Similarly, if you're a bloke, and you keep getting sheila's... sometimes it can be good just to be blokey with a bloke again...

The girl in question is just sent to help clean up his house and probably doesn't even speak English as a first language. From what I gathered he was preaching atheism to them while they were working and wasn't having any luck because they were Christian. Oh, and brown. He was very specific about the brown part.

Their hot chocolate is an internal eruption of joy. I've heard descriptions of cannabis cakes as being a feeling of wellbeing spreading throughout your body from your stomach, and that's about as close as I can get in words.

That's an accurate description, yes. The best part is when you go by early in the morning. Because they make everything there rather then having it shipped in like other places the combined aroma coming out of their kitchen is as close Nirvana as your nasal passages can achieve will still on this mortal coil.

I always time it on Sunday morning coming home from work so that I arrive just as stuff is being taken out of the oven and put into the display racks. Tim Horton's blueberry bagels that are still hot from the oven, oh yes.

Plus you don't have to put up with the pretentiousness of trying to order coffee in Italian. Nor does coffee cost you $7.25. Oh, and they have real coffee. You don't just get this blank stare when you ask for just coffee. ;p

Y'Know GK, saying 'Dont Click Me' is like saying 'Don't Press the Red Button'...

Burn, burn the seeds away. Make my ass safe for today~

[SpyOne]

At least I'm not the only one who's a fan of the TGI Friday's chips

And the buggers are hard to find down here ...

7-Eleven.

At least on the East Coast, if they don't carry them they can.

And some help for those who are trying to become more Canadian: if you want to become a cliched Canadian, you need to learn to apologize.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8cDRwhgi6Q

[Gravekeeper]

And some help for those who are trying to become more Canadian: if you want to become a cliched Canadian, you need to learn to apologize.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8cDRwhgi6Q

Colin Mochrie is one of our national treasures. -.-

[SteeleDragon78]

a little bit of fanboyishness

gk, i have been enjoying your little rants since i found the site, and let me say i both pity you and envy you.

the pity comes from 867, the envy is your wonderfully creative vocabulary.

secondly, i have been passing your posts around the office in little word docs, not an easy task as you werent kidding when you said you could write a novel, ive looked at how many pages there are in my docs..607 pages from your rants in sucky customers. you are a hero to many in my call center. so please publish your book so we can all be fanbois

[Broomjockey]

I also used the google for this "Tim Hortons" thing.. what's so special about it (as against any other of it's ilk??)

It's really a Canadian Thing. It's like Starbucks for Canada, only more. It's basically become a cultural institution. Anything large enough to be called a town probably has at least one Timmy's. A lot of them are open 24 hours, and they can process orders *fast*. They can get through a line of 20 people in probably about 5 minutes. And that's finished, through the door, not just "waiting for your drink to be made." They make their doughnuts, etc. fresh a couple of times a day.

[Gerrinson]

You have to study to become a Canadian? Really? I guess I lucked out, I was born into it.

Although I do prefer Dunkin' Donuts to Tim Horton's...

Mmmmm, donut...

[xaenon]

Then the aftertaste hits, which tastes something like the fan belt from a '67 Desoto.

I'm sorry, sir, DeSoto production ceased in 1961, and the fan belts of that particular vintage have a peculiar taste. Perhaps the lower radiator hose for a
1967 Studebaker would be more to your dining preference?

[Acolyte]

It's really a Canadian Thing. It's like Starbucks for Canada, only more. It's basically become a cultural institution. Anything large enough to be called a town probably has at least one Timmy's. A lot of them are open 24 hours, and they can process orders *fast*. They can get through a line of 20 people in probably about 5 minutes. And that's finished, through the door, not just "waiting for your drink to be made." They make their doughnuts, etc. fresh a couple of times a day.

The city I grew up in (St. Thomas, Ontario-30000-ish people) contained 5 Tim Hortons at one point. Hell, when I heard that Whitehorse only had 2, I was like 'WTF? Seriously?'

And they need a third one here, the line for my morning coffee and donut is just retarded.

[DeltaSierra]

Timmies is an institution in Canada. It caters to the major food groups that we Canadians crave - caffeine, donuts, and maple syrup (not necessarily in that order.)

[Jester]

There's only about 4 of them in all of Canada. So it makes me wonder where the hell these particular chips came from.

Honestly, the number of TGIF's in your area has zero relevance to the chips in question, as they chips don't come from the TGIF restaurants, but from corporate, or from another company that TGIF corporate has partnered with to produce said chips. Same thing goes for any of those TGIF products you find in the frozen section of your grocery store. You don't need a TGIF restaurant within a thousand miles to have any of these products, my friend, as they don't come from the restaurants.

Sorry for the lecture....I was only a trainer for those folks for 6 years, and worked for them for almost 9.

[Gravekeeper]

Honestly, the number of TGIF's in your area has zero relevance to the chips in question, as they chips don't come from the TGIF restaurants, but from corporate, or from another company that TGIF corporate has partnered with to produce said chips. Same thing goes for any of those TGIF products you find in the frozen section of your grocery store. You don't need a TGIF restaurant within a thousand miles to have any of these products, my friend, as they don't come from the restaurants.

But you can't find them anywhere else in BC. I've never seen them before. Anywhere. They're just in OUR vending machine. ><

and only 2 bags of them too. They've been there for months... I think the vending machine guy got a couple bags on a US road trip last summer and threw them into the vending machine. It'd make about as much sense as the other stuff he puts in there.

That man finds chip flavours that have no right to exist and can't even be sold in normal stores then sticks them in the machine.

[Jester]

GK, while I am not discounting the possibilities you mention regarding your vending machine guy, I do have to point out that just because YOU haven't seen them anywhere else in Vancouver doesn't mean they AREN'T anywhere else in Vancouver.

Of course, if they have been in your machine that long, I think it is pretty obvious you should avoid them, and hopefully one of your less bright coworkers will relieve you of looking at them AND prove Darwin right all in one fell swoop!

[Peppergirl]

Can you buy the chips and ship them to Nunavut?

Then again, it might start a national incident. They'd start calling and demanding them like they do the hats.

[Gravekeeper]

GK, while I am not discounting the possibilities you mention regarding your vending machine guy, I do have to point out that just because YOU haven't seen them anywhere else in Vancouver doesn't mean they AREN'T anywhere else in Vancouver.

True. Though I am ( sadly ) quite intimate with the stock of most of the 7/11's here. If its not in them then its not likely anywhere and if it is its just one cornerstone somewhere that hates humanity. -.-

I only ever saw one coworker try them. Well, I didn't see, but the still mostly full bag was left strewn in the break room over the table as if they'd suddenly collapsed mid chew.

[Jester]

Amusingly, while I worked for TGIF for years, I have never tried any of their supermarket fare, and honestly, didn't even know they had any chips of any kind out there.

My condolences to you, GK.