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Goldmine

June 26, 2007 @ 09:12

Next to the word coffee, I bet the most uttered word within the Tim Horton's closest to my house is "goldmine."

It's at Mayfield and Hurontario or Hwy 10 in the far reaches of Brampton. It borders Caledon and catches traffic southbound from Orangeville. It's the also the beneficiary of at least four or five new housing developments in the area and Mayfield is the quickest east/west route to Heart Lake Rd which takes you south to the 410.

A lot of the people who bought the new houses still work in the city I presume.

Anyway, every time I go into my local Tim Horton's it's packed and without fail at least one person can always be heard saying to another, "this place must be a goldmine."

And no doubt it is. It doesn't matter if you go there at seven in the morning or seven at night, there's always cars lined up at the drive through and people lined up at the counter, and there's always a reference to "goldmine."

I was there the last two mornings and to join the line inside you actually had to stand in the area leading to the washrooms. Needless to say this prompted the odd comment from your average Brampton Bob but once the toilet humour was out of the way it got back to the same thing.

People attempting to make small talk, look up and down the line and say, "this place must be a goldmine." or "talk about a goldmine" or "is this a goldmine or what?"

This morning I had it said to me twice and it got me to thinking. Has a Tim Horton's ever gone out of business? Has one ever failed? Is it possible to fail, and if one has failed, would that person be considered the biggest loser in the history of losers?

And then that leads to another thought I'm sure I share with thousands of others.

Maybe I should look into gettin' one of these here "goldmines."

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Stafford
June 26, 2007 / 11:58

Freddie, I know the Timmy's you're writing about and I must say the whole myth about the coffee shop confuses me.

I remember being in a Georgetown Timmy's next door to the Sears outlet and people were lined up inside IN THEIR FREAKING PYJAMA PANTS. Does Horton's coffee contain crack? 'Cause that's the only conclusion I can come to.

Coffee Time is the same. Country Style is close. But I've seen lineups at a Timmy's and heard crickets chirping at the competitor across the street.

People in their freaking underpants could line up at a Tim Horton's and people would dismiss the social faux pas as "a chance to support our troops, eh.".

I don't get it and I'm freaking pissed actually because the Esso where I get my gas at Mt. Pleasant and Merton is always packed with these drug addicts.

I can't get gas half the time because they're ordering coffee (and most of the time it isn't coffee...it's that double-double or triple triple shit like kids drinking sloe gin).

Buy one Freddie. I'd back you on Highway 10 at Bovaird in the Esso where we can grab the Wal Mart zombies.


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