Sigh, the end of winter. The snow is beginning to melt (except for the freezing rain part). Grass will soon be struggling to reach the sun. Or at least it would if it weren’t for ALL THE FUCKING ‘ROLL UP THE RIM’ COFFEE CUPS LITTERED ALL OVER THE FUCKING CITY!!! What the hell is wrong with you fucking douchebags??!? Throw the empty cup in the fucking garbage can!! Every season it’s the same thing. A coffee shop puts on a promotion and since some loser didn’t win a precious free doughnut, they chuck the cup on the ground. Grow the fuck up and throw it in a garbage can. Wankers!!
This article appears in Mar 6-12, 2008.
And just as bad as all this litter, are the lazy slobs who can’t drag their fat asses out of their cars to go into the store and get their precious “double double”. Last Sunday morning I counted no less than 27 cars, all with engines idling, in the drive-thru lineup at the hortons in cole harbour… It wasn’t even bad weather… wtf is wrong with these people?While your taxing them for the coffee cup cleanup, double tax them for the pollution they contribute to the air. Either that or ban the drive-thru altogether.
…and let’s not forget the drive-thru liquor store window….and what about all those asshole citizens who leave their newspapers and flyers and whatnot lying around to get pulped by the weather? clean up your garbage!
Why isn’t there a surcharge on using the drive through? You normally have to pay extra for convienence so let’s make the drive through cost more. Maybe then people would actually get out of their cars and go into the store to save a bit of cash, and we’d all be saving a bit of air quality at the same time.
Tim Hortons seems to favour its drive-thru customers. I almost always go in as the drive-thru line is always ridiculously long at the one I go to. If there are 8 staff members behind the counter, six of them will be working the drive-thru window, leaving two to service the loooooooong line of customers inside. It’s almost like we’re being penalized for not being lazy!
I completely agree, newsgal! I’ve chosen in the past to go in because the drive-thru line was so darn long, but ended up waiting even longer in the shorter indoor line than I would have had I driven through!
They need to limit what menu items they serve through the drive through, it would increase their effiency ten fold, and save on labour cost. I bet 80% of people who go though drive through get coffee/tea/timbits etc, then you get that one ass that probably orders a sandwich that takes 10 minutes to make; that is what holds up the line. Drive through is meant for quick, efficent service; not for those who are too lazy to get out of their car to supply coffee for an office of 20.
I likethe idea of paying extra for using the drive through. That’s Dandy ! But it a step further, this is not very Canadian to say now that I am thinking about it, don’t drink their crappy coffee. Get some ßeans and grind them up just before you make the coffee. You’ll be happy you did. You may become a bit of a coffee snob, but oh baby it is sooo much better. Sorry if that anyone feel dirty reading it. Of course, you have to find ßeans that you like. Finding the right ßeans is a bit tough, there are so many on this planet.
I live near the hyrdrostone area and walk to work downtown everyday. My walk takes me from my house to the foot of devonshire and barrington where I walk along barrington, then down to provo wallis (navy docks parking area) and along upper and lower water street. It’s about a 2.5K walk I think… one way. One spring, I was so appalled by the Tim’s cups that I decided to count them all. I walked to work on one side of the street and walked back home on the other side of the street. On the way to work, I counted 110 Tim’s cups… and on the way home I counted 129… so a total of 249 cups in one 2.5K stretch.
Guy,Did you stop to pick up a single one of those 249 cups you pass every day?