Roll Up the Rim to....Whine

Exciting times are upon us.  Yes it is "roll up the rim to win" at Tim Hortons.  Forget the current Lotto 649 Jackpot of $11 million, I want to win a free coffee or maybe a free doughnut and of course a free car would be swell.  "Roll up the Rim to win" is on the same level as McDonald's "monopoly"-it's like Christmas and my birthday are deep-fried and then dipped in chocolate. 
    I've spent the last week on my grind trying to win something, anything.  However fate is cruel and Lady Luck has been spitting in my coffee.  As of today I'm down zero to five.  That's correct, I've bought five coffees and haven't even won a free smile from the cashier that always looks like she's going to cut you if you ask for a coffee sleeve.  Apparently the chances of winning a prize is 1 in six.  So that must mean that my next coffee will surely come with a side order of free car...right? At this point in the game I would like it if just one of my coffees actually was made correctly to how I ordered it.  I would consider that a prize in itself.  Apparently asking for "two milk, one sugar" is being difficult.  The cashier looks at me either like I'm talking in a foreign language or shoots me a look like "Starbucks is down the street".  Instead I get a double double or cream or splenda.  If I decide I want a steeped tea instead I'm sure as hell getting a coffee.

This is the message that I've been subjected to all week long

             I'm not sure if it is just my luck or if Tim Horton's is just getting cheap with its prizes.  I remember a few years ago I would win almost every time.  Last year I won a muffin which is pretty much the dud prize.
  Anyways I was looking up the grand prizes and this year they're boasting "camping packages" which judging by the picture consists of a tent, a folding chair and a lantern..basically everything you need if you were to find yourself homeless and under a bridge.  To be honest I think I'll take the free muffin instead over that one (camping is not an activity I want to encourage in our household).  Online they are doing another version of the game that I will try once I figure out how to install flash on my computer.  The grand prize for that one is coffee for a year which sounds exciting until you read the fine print and it says $600 in gift cards.  Psssh not in my household.  That's coffee for the month. 
    If you happen to be a higher up at Tim Horton's and reading my blog, maybe throw this desperate housewife a few lucky winner cups her way. 

This would be truth in advertising at the one I go to