May 19, 2009

• X-Large double double with milk…

  Any “good” Canadian will know what that means, at least according to UBC Engineer.

  Since returning to Canada, and then returning to work, I have become an addict.  I am addicted to stopping at Tim Horton’s drive thru.  Extra large coffee two sugars, two milk, cinnamon raisin bagel with plain cream cheese, toasted.  I very well can justify this.  I have to drive in traffic and some mornings it can take upwards of 45 minutes to get to work (which, nearly any other time of day can take as little as 15 minutes), and that is a long time between coffees.  The Husband is addicted to cigarettes and spends far more a week on his smoking addiction than I do on my Timmy’s addiction.  So mine is the lesser of two evils, although I’m sure my butt would beg to differ and so would my pocket book, that also has to support the additional closet additions required because of the Timmy’s addiction.  But my whole purpose of telling you about this is what happened at my usual pit stop on my morning commute.

  I will often check the length of the line up waiting at the drive through before actually joining it, and this morning I am about to pull up and I see an oddity … there was a man standing in the middle of the drive thru effectively stopping the next car from placing and therefore collecting an order.  Now I have only to surmise what happened before I arrived, but I can say that I really had to laugh.  Seriously, this Fella was making the car before him back up so he could go in front of them!  No I’ve heard of road rage and all that can accompany it, but “Drive Thru Rage”?  Really for all the effort that Fella went through, he could have let the person who queue jumped go first and then waited to take his turn and it all would have gone a bit smoother and caused a lot less lineup inside (that is where I went as I wasn’t waiting for that to play out and as it were it was faster for me to go inside and get my order than wait for them!) and no doubt avoided a higher blood pressure level everyone involved.  I mean really aren’t there BIGGER things to get worked up over?

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