When mythical wife told me that we were going to go on a field trip for Father’s Day, I thought that perhaps we were going to head to the ballpark and catch a game. The Braves were at home, they were playing hot, and there’s usually some sort of Father’s Day promotion or giveaway associated with the day. Plus, we haven’t been to the ballpark since like 2021, and a nice day game seemed like a viable option for Father’s Day.
But when I saw her punch in “Columbus, GA” into the GPS, I knew what we were doing. She probably knew I knew, because she knows how fixated I am on these sorts of things. Regardless, it very much was a me kind of thing to be doing, but obviously with the introduction of kids into our lives, things like me are fewer and further apart, so it really was a welcome idea to turn the clock back a little bit and do something completely random and time-consuming for what really amounts to so little in the grand spectrum of a day.
We went to the newly opened Tim Horton’s in Columbus, the very first in the state of Georgia. The first of allegedly 15+ to come in the state. But as much as I love their iced cappuccinos made of crack like they were actually made of crack, I really didn’t have much thought about trekking all the way to Columbus for it, because they’re nearly like two hours away from Atlanta. Especially since there’s already a proposed location in Atlanta, even if it’s in the shitty Midtown area. But I was willing to wait out my first ever Georgia iced capp for when they were closer to where I was, and not Columbus, Georgia.
However, mythical wife knows me pretty well, and this is totally the type of thing I’d do in my previous life. And so we made the journey down to Columbus to the first-ever Timmy’s in Georgia.
I was curious to whether or not the place was going to be slammed or not slammed, because Tim Horton’s is still a Canadian company, and there’s no guarantee that the yokels of Columbus really knew what was going to be put in their little town. I feared the place would be a shitshow, but fortunately when we got there, it wasn’t that bad. If we were driving through, it would’ve been a wait, but after the drive down, I wanted to go in and take my time a little bit.
Unfortunately, despite the name and brand being brought down here, the service and performance of the staff were still reliant on locals, and despite the fact that the restaurant was just three days open, and they were overstaffed to the gills, they were still completely overwhelmed, and they took forever to fulfill even the most basic of orders.
And unfortunately, they kind of messed up on my order, by completely forgetting to give me my hash browns, and more importantly, botching up my iced capp, the one thing I really wanted. Granted, they botched it by making it an Oreo iced capp, which was delicious in its own way, but I still wanted a regular, vanilla iced capp, with no shit in it. I didn’t notice it until we were gone, because it wasn’t mixed very well, and it wasn’t until I got a chunk of Oreo coming up the straw did it dawn on me, but at least I still got sort of what I was hoping to get.
Either way, for Father’s Day, yes, mythical wife and I drove two hours each way, so that I could get an iced cappuccino. It was worth it, and I look forward to the next time I can have another Timmy’s iced capp, and hopefully it will be correct then.
But it’s the littlest things that make me happy, and short of my yearly belt photo with my daughters, there’s not really anything else I could have asked for.
