Monday, April 11, 2005

An observation...

This doesn't really have any meaningful impact on anything, but it does bother me nonetheless. After sitting through a very long and badly attented show a couple nights ago, I went to Tim Horton's with a couple of the guys I work with. We're in the middle of this Roll Up The Rim To Win contest and each location displays the number of winning tabs it has received. This is all well and good, and I am an active participant in the contest, but I think the numbers lie. We've gone back to same location on a daily basis and the numbers go up by 300+ each day. It is remotely possible when you think of the number of people that go through each location on a daily basis, but real? I think not. They even go up over the weekend. I don't think 300 tabs show up at Tim's on Queen St. in Ottawa on a Sunday. There's no way. The location in question went from 325 tabs about a week and a half ago to well over 4500 at last count. Even if there were 300 tabs per day, that's about 10 days x 300 tabs for a total of 3000 new tabs, 3325 overall. Where does 4500 come from? There has to be some kind of inflation in there hidden away among the empty coffee cups and donut bags. Like I said, this really doesn't matter in the vast spectrum of the universe, but I just don't think it's right.
 
 

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