A silly pointless diversion

In the midst of the next few weeks I'm going to track something that will mean absolutely nothing to you Americans.

But here in Canada it is "Roll up the Rim" time at Tim Horton's. The idea is that if you buy a coffee, you get to roll up the little top fold and you can win something (usually a coffee or donut). Now, it is a fairly normal occurrence to win. This promotion started on Tuesday (I believe) and our local Tim Horton's has already given away 178 "prizes". My fiancee has already won.

I, on the other hand, have not won anything in two years. This is completely inexplicable, but I'm going to use this blog to track how many cups of coffee I go before actually winning something. If this blog post is in fact a jinx, then you will never hear of this again. If, as I suspect, this is a grand Tim Horton's conspiracy against me for not talking up their American franchises enough then I suspect we'll be talking about this for years to come.

To appease the Almighty Deity HOR-TON, I will use these posts to discuss the franchises place in Canadian culture and future in American culture. But I will not mediate on this any more for now.

I will say that I have bought seven cups of coffee from them this week and have gone 0 for 7 (for some reason this promotion occasionally causes me to buy more then my usual one coffee a day).

So, this has nothing to do with the conversation FUCK IT! I need to excise the donut demons somehow.