Tim Horton’s

This place being beside Regent Park, and close to Dundas/​Sherbourne, has the assorted lunatics hanging about. The staff don’t enforce the 20 min table limit, so you have people buying a small coffee and hogging tables, especially during busy periods.

One of the best things about my job — I carry my laptop around and can work from anywhere. Yes, that includes working from home. However, I do like going to my office downtown every so often. And sometimes, I like venturing out of the office for 2 – 3 hours and working from a public wi-​fi. It was one of those days and I cho-​cho-​chose this location on Parliament and Dundas.
Free wi-​fi, nice indoor seating, and a cup of coffee and some good breakfast lured me in. I was hoping it’d be quieter but it was super busy. I got lucky and found seating — a 2 seater. I looked around for outlets — none to be found — which was quite disappointing, because I was hoping to work from Timmies for a few hours. And when you do the kind of work I do, laptop charge usually won’t last for more than an hour. So, sadly, I had to finish up my breakfast and leave within the hour.
Did I have a normal hour? No. Be prepared for hobos to walk in and try to find seating. The employees are usually too busy to notice. A hobo came up to me and asked me if he could sit across from me. And I felt bad, so I allowed him to take a seat. He, then, tried to strike up a very weird conversation. While I was in middle of a phone call, too. I didn’t really respond, and I was hoping that he’d take the hint and go away. But nope, the dude totally sat and dozed off into sweet slumber. 10 minutes in, thwack! His head hit the table (and almost my laptop). He didn’t wake up. In another 5 minutes, he was snoring. And I let out a sigh that he wasn’t dead.
When I left, he was still asleep. I would’ve loved to wait and see the ending to that story, but I had work to do!