So here are more shocking revelations into Puck’s forgotten life. For the record, my own coffee addiction is not quite as bad. I drink about a litre of coffee before noon most days. (That’s close to a quart for you American types.) I only wish I had an illegal source of coffee. It would make the financial burden of my addiction a little lighter.
I don’t know why the newspapers would report on a minor theft of coffee by a fast food employee, but the concept of Puck having a tabloid moniker seemed funny and all the more embarrassing.
She should work at her world’s equivalent of Cracker Barrel free tea, coffee, water and one half price meal during the shift
No Cracker Barrel here. And no restaurants that offer such a sweet deal to serving staff in Canada. Canada is like the United States, only everything is more expensive and most things aren’t as good.
Yeah. Never. Drink. Molson. It…, it made me cry and hurt my inner child when I drank it. Plus…, it did things to my intestines. Don’t ask.
Dude, if I’m forced to have a domestic (meaning Canadian) beer, Molson’s my brew. Hearty stuff.
Molson is the stuff we used to bring back when we went south across the bridge or tunnel to Windsor (from Detroit.) That, and Lebatt.
Now that the pseudo-prohibition laws have changed, I go for the local craft beers. I’m about to start brewing my own again.
Interestingly enough, if I want to go to Canada, the easiest way to get there is to travel south.
I live near Cadillac, Michigan, so my choices are few. I can go across the Mac bridge to the Soo (Sault Saint marie,) but that’s a bit of a hike. Then, there are some ferry boats on lake Huron. Nope, easier to head south.
But then, I haven’t had a reason to go there in years. Any time this millenium, anyhow.
But I did dearly love sailing around the North Channel and Georgian Bay.
Whoa, you live way the hell up there! That’s frostbite territory, I must say. But yeah, I’m on the same page as you with the border-crossing. Ever since they made a passport mandatory for the crossing, I haven’t gone. Too much planning involved. The last time I went to the States was in 2001. I was chased briefly through the mean streets of Buffalo by some hoodlums. That’s the kind of experience you can’t get in Canada, yo!
Pretty much every Tim Horten’s will let the staff have all the free coffee they want, so long as they use their own mugs. The paper cups are worth way more than the actual coffee itself, which costs pennies a cup.
Well, to be honest, Tim Horton’s tends to be a reasonably charitable and unjerky organization, though they’re almost all franchise-owned, so I’m guessing that would vary from franchisee to franchisee.
As I think about it, when I was young and employed in my first job, I drank a lot of coffee. I think I did this because it got me out of the desk. I went through phases where I would ween myself off coffee, then go back to drinking it. My wife would experience caffeine withdrawals by getting headaches. Never affected me that way. A boss in my first civilian job decided that caffeine was bad for us and secretly substituted decaf fat our coffee nook. A few days later he told us what he had done and assumed we would be surprised and grateful. We were extremely pissed and realized why we were so tired the last few days.
I rely on caffeine for basic functioning. I drink at least a liter of coffee a day. (Er, a quart a day to you guys.) That former boss is dangerous and criminally minded. I wouldn’t trust him.
We ‘Mericans know how to use the metric system. We just choose not to.
Except for us engineering types. We get to translate back and forth between systems and crash the occasional space craft.
I actually rely on Imperial more often than not. The conversion was never 100% up here in Canada.
The boss thinks it’s funny (*Jabba the Hutt laugh*) until all his employees fall asleep behind the wheel on their lunch breaks.
Exactly.
I don’t know why this one struck me to be so funny but I keep chuckling to myself
Puck in the last panel just kills me
It’s one of my sillier expressions, but I quite like it. Thanks!
always find it funny when I see something akin to “that’s a quart for the American audience”. Like Americans use only one measurement system for anything… While I admit most of us probably cant convert the different measurements, we all likely needed to at some point, cause some classy American thought to use only quarts or only liters (or whatever we need to measure what we are measuring).
I don’t care how smart anyone in American is, he/she simply cant do simple tasks without making it more complicated than it needs to be. It’s just the American way lol
Well, you guys have the most complicated measurement system of all, because now you use a weird combo Imperial/metric hybrid that’s all over the place. Oh well. I can’t throw stones. Canada has the same thing with its spelling: we can’t decide whether we’re American or British, and as a result, none of us really know how to spell.
Wasn’t it a Canadian that crashed a NASA satellite into Jupiter a few years ago because he used km/h instead of the much superior mph?
I don’t know, but that sounds like a decidedly Canadian thing to do.
And then the satellite apologized to Jupiter… 😀
“Major perk”… If that was intentional, bravo.
If not, you owe your subconscious a raise.
My subconscious is the only part of me that ever deserves a raise.
I save money by brewing my own coffee. And I get to make it the way i like it. If you can stand a spoon in it, it’s good. If the spoon dissolve, it’s great coffee.
I brew my own. But it’s never quite the same. I don’t have the magic stuff they put in at the store.
An English Fairy drinking COFFEE ?
Blimey !
She’s gone totally Native.
Well, she may or may not be English. I mean, theoretically, yes, she’s technically from the British Isles going back a number of centuries, but I’ve always sort of imagined that she’d gone fully New World long ago. And the word is still out on whether she speaks with a British accent or a North American accent or not.
OPINION: Imperial Measurements are just fine.
Until you start measuring things, and are forced to use 32nds or 64ths of an inch.
Or use Tablespoons or Teaspoons in recipes. (Quick, how many Tablespoons in a Cup ?)
OPINION REVISED: Imperial sucks.
I’d love to throw everything Imperial Measurement in the trash, right along with my antiquated QWERTY keyboard (which was DESIGNED to slow typists down !)
Have they come up with a Qwerty alternative yet? Because I’d be totally down with that.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ would totally be a keyboard I could get used to.
Failing that, DVORAK
“I don’t know why the newspapers would report on a minor theft of coffee by a fast food employee”
Because it’s Canada, duh. Did you know that in the U.S. they find it amusing that we report every murder? Yeah apparently one person killed another is no big deal down there. So yeah, Canadian newspapers probably would report on something like a coffee thief.
We`re so quaint.
I think they’re lying to her for the fun of it. Real life is messier than this.
Well, lying IS fun. As long as you get away with it.
It must have been a MAJOR theft. And dramatic too.
Gallons of the stuff.
It would be funnier if it were Imperial gallons, but I’d be about the only person to get it.