Tom Young

I would love to have the ability to read people’s minds whenever I wanted to… And where is this all going?

On my way home late yesterday afternoon, the roads were slushy, walking was nearly impossible and it was raining like the days of Noah. I needed the ususal afternoon cup of joe, so I drove into the local tim’s drive thru. My razor sharp mind told me somehting unusual was happening at the local Tim’s… There were no cars in the parking lot, three or four five ton stake trucks were backed up in front of the outlet and yellow tape — the kind one might see around a crime scene — had cordoned off the froint of the store.

Did I mention that some building materials were stored under the overhang they wouldn’t get wet?

It occurred to me almost instantly, the must be renovating the inside of the local Tim Hortons. This is a Tim Hortons where often times the drive thru does not move as quickly as one would like, so being the seventh or eighth car I thought I’d be really bored waiting for my medium black.

No such chance.

I had the opportunity during my time in line, who knows two or three minutes, to sit and watch three other cars pull into the lot, all able to park anywhere they wanted to, and their drivers got out hoping for their afternoon double-double and maple donut.

One, even went so far as to lift the yellow tape and go to the door, only to discover he was being denied entry. I have no idea what went through the minds of any or all of the three when they saw no other cars, construction trucks backed up to the door and yellow tape covered with the word, “caution.”

On doesn’t necessarily need to be a mental giant to know what’s going on at the local Tim’s, but opening one’s eyes, putting one’s brain in gear and thinking for a minute some clues might have given the whole thing away.

I can’t say for sure when the work began, but I can tell you this morning that it was business as usual and one of my fellow employees tells me it looks great on the inside. To those three who got out in the rain and where really dissapointed, the lots full of cars, the trucks are gone and the tape is down, so go on back.

I’m Tom Young.