"We don't take Canadian money" says Tim Horton's

Sulako · Post by **Sulako** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:56 am

I am addicted to Tim Horton's coffee. My monthly tab is around $150, as I have around 3 large coffees a day and they must be Timmy Ho's.

Entering the States for training, I was apprehensive about spending the next 11 days fighting crippling lack-of-caffeine migraines, but I figured I'd just drink whatever coffee is available.

Cut to the present tense...

I am driving toward the airport this morning, and what should I see but Tim Horton's on Airport Highway #2 and Holloway Road. I'm like "Yessss!". I pull up and get in line for my beloved coffee. I check my pockets and notice that all I have in cash is a Canadian $5 bill. No problem, right? I mean Tim Horton's is a Canadian icon. They show ads on TV about homesick travellers who order the actual brewing equipment so they can get a taste of the true north strong and free.

I pull up to the drivethrough window. "I'm sorry, we don't take Canadian money." She then helpfully offered to let me pay with a credit card, something I can't even do in Canada.

Seriously, what the hell is up with that? I not very far south of the Canadian border, so it's not like they haven't heard of the country.

I am honestly really pissed about this and I want to know why Tim Horton's, a symbol of Canada as much as the RCMP, doesn't take Canadian money in the US if they take US money in Canada.

FREEFALL · Post by **FREEFALL** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:49 am

You were in the USA, need I say more? From what I hear, the United States of America is the only country in the world!!

I would like to see what would happen if a Canadian Tim Horton's refused to take US $$.

TopperHarley · Post by **TopperHarley** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 7:56 am

You should have tried to use Canadian Tire money

gelbisch · Post by **gelbisch** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:21 am

Well I'm not too surprised... and nor do I find it even an issue. You can't really expect a country to accept foreign currency, regardless of which country the establishment originated in.

Speaking of which, is TH even Canadian-owned anymore?

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:37 am

Sulako :

Hey what have you been smoking lately? Hell you are brighter than to get all upset over such a trivial issue as that, besides Canadian money is not really recognized anywhere on earth outside Canada.

Hows the rest of your life going? Drop by the next time you are in Nanaimo I should be home in about six weeks from now and I'll take you for a Tim Hortons.

Cat

Airtids · Post by **Airtids** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:37 am

We're a Canadian company and we accept USD..... AT PAR!!

Seb · Post by **Seb** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 8:47 am

timmi's sold out to wendy's few years back

gelbisch · Post by **gelbisch** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:10 am

Aha, thank you... I had a feeling they were more red, white and blue than red and white nowadays.

FREEFALL · Post by **FREEFALL** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 9:10 am

Damn, another hit on Canadian heritage.

sprucemonkey · Post by **sprucemonkey** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 11:19 am

Aren't the founders americans? How Canadian does that really Tim Hortons?

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 2:00 pm

That is a travesty! Send me GPS coordinates of this place and I'll have the RCAF Piper Tomahawk put a JDAM throught the front window!

Dust Devil · Post by **Dust Devil** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:19 pm

C-HRIS wrote:You should have tried to use Canadian Tire money

The high class strippers in Crosby North Dakota take canadian tire money.

swede · Post by **swede** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:41 pm

Timmies may have been a CDN icon, but it aint no more. It's U.S. owned and regardless, 99% of americans have been pretty well brainwashed, Canada is nonexistent - they've been so dumbed down they couldn't tell you what the 49th parallel is. Don't ya ever watch ric mercer's interviews?

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 4:53 pm

Yes Swede. The USA is our enemy.

swede · Post by **swede** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:52 pm

Correct, and Jean Poutine was a helluva CDN president, so says gwb.

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 5:56 pm

swede wrote:Correct, and Jean Poutine was a helluva CDN president, so says gwb.

Who cares. The last, "Leader" this country had was Brian Mulroney.

LostinRotation · Post by **LostinRotation** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:49 pm

hazatude wrote:[ The last, "Leader" this country had was Brian Mulroney.

I'd have to say it was Pierre Trudeau... Mulroney just sold us out and went to work for Amex.

Sully if your that upset about it, ask Haz to talk to R.Joyce about it, or better yet next time your in the Hammer talk to him yourself...he used to hold controlling intrest and I'm sure still has a voice. Not that anything would get done about it, but it'd be interesting to see what he'd say.

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hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Wed Jul 27, 2005 6:53 pm

I'm leaning to the right so far that I'm going to fall into the Atlantic.

Siddley Hawker · Post by **Siddley Hawker** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 4:55 pm

Of course the question begs to be asked, would Tim Horton's take Canadian money if they had one in Britian. Or Spain. Or France, for that matter.

PatDaPilot · Post by **PatDaPilot** » Thu Jul 28, 2005 7:28 pm

Dude, expecting Tim's in the States to take CDN money is like expecting a CDN business to take Iraqi moolah: NOT GONNA HAPPEN!!!!