My hop, skip and leap across the Atlantic, and all the crazy that comes with it!

Sunday, December 2, 2007

Model!

The shop I work at is featured on an 'about Sheffield' website, and guess who managed to get in all of the pictures?
Check it out at http://www.spinsheffield.com/tours/Starbucks_Coffee_Co_Lower_Gallery/1

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Rectum? Damn near killed 'em!

An older couple argue all of the way to my till about where my accent is from...finally, the husband just asks me outright whether I am Canadian or American, and with a smile I tell him. The wife jumps in with anecdotes of their recent trip to BC, telling me that in every coffee shop they went to, they could just order a 'regular' coffee, and everyone knew what they meant. Recognizing the standard TimHo's order, I smiled and asked if that was in Tim Horton's.
"Oh no dear', she replied, 'We didn't go to Tim Hortons. We went to Vancouver, and to Victoria..."