And now Milton Bradley has fled to Oakland, California. Extradition hearings are penidng…
Luckily, California isn’t ruled by a right-wing strong-man, with strong ties to Bush, yet holding on to his position despite the opposition of the vast majority of its citizens. Luckily, there isn’t a mountainous region in the eastern part of the state, a ‘no-man’s land’ where it would be easy to hide…
“Musharraf”
“Bless you!”
Yeah, from my zip code, 334 Dunkin Donuts locations within 20 miles. I also just now found a new one just down the road a bit that I’ve never even seen before. I think it’s in the MIT student center, though, and not being an MIT student, I’d never really think to go there for coffee.
Have you consulted the Barista? I’m sure her or she will be surprised to learn that their mugs can’t survive a minimum of 3 bounces on the floor.
I got MY stainless steel travel mug from a funeral company. Beat that.
Tim’s? Bwahahahaaha - you, too, shall be assimilated!
Seriously, Tim’s doughnuts and coffee are way, way, way better than DDs.
I for one welcome our new Tim Horten overlords.
The Goat Feltching mouthbreathers at DD make my hazelnut coffee tast like it got raped by blueberries.
Dammed flavor squirter.
The first time I had a Dunkin’ Donuts cup of coffee I spit out the first mouthful. Tim’s has spoiled me.
Oh well. I can get a double-double after only seven hours’ drive, I guess I shouldn’t complain.
Not only can they not survive 3 bounces, they can’t handle 1 trip through the dishwasher or more than 1 week of use.
I bought two. The first broke the first time I put it in the dishwasher. Note: It did not break when I ran the dishwasher. It broke when I PUT IT IN the dishwasher. The other lasted 1 week and 3 uses. I didn’t bother reporting it to DD because I’m supremely lazy and no one got hurt.
And FTR, 63 locations within 20 miles, which surprises me. I thought being so close to Springfield MA would net me more locations.
I used to work for the Food distributor for Tim Horton’s. Out of curiosity, I had a coworker bring me a cup of coffee (she lived in RI, we don’t have many in MA). I was considering buying some of their coffee since I could get it at a discount. Boy am I glad I didn’t buy first. It was nasty, vile, disgusting, ohmygod bitter coffee. I can only imagine that making it myself wouldn’t improve the taste.
Damn, it’s too late to edit.
I forgot to say, DD isn’t pretentious enough to have Baristas. When I worked there, my manager told us we were called Peons (yes she was kidding). We didn’t really have a title other than counter worker or baker. Anyway, regardless of title, they wouldn’t care. They may replace the mug but they wont care. Unless someone gets hurt. And since the lid really is so good, there’s not much chance of someone getting hurt unless they’re really trying.
Bitter? No way! I’m a coffee wuss - hate bitter things and can’t drink coffee from most places; Starbucks being the worst of all. Tim’s is very pleasant and not bitter at all. Maybe she pulled a stunt on you or maybe you got old beans or something but I can’t imagine Tim’s coffee being bitter.
The DD’s by me could stand to be just a little more pretentious. And cleaner.
Well, if you’ve got to go, you may as well go with style. (I’m just glad their mugs weren’t a promotion to ‘drum up business’. Stick around for a while, will ya? 
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I’m wondering if that isn’t a whole other thread: Who has the best/ most durable spill-proof travel mugs for a reasonable price? (no ‘Hammacher-schlemmer’ $1000 models please)
This thread makes me wonder why companies put their name on such shoddy merchandise.
I worked at Radio Shack for a while about 15 years ago, and they had a promotion where you could get a free RS flashlight if you brought in a coupon. Worst promotion ever, the flashlights were the cheapest, most unreliable products of any kind* I’ve ever held in my hand. A huge proportion didn’t work right out of the box, we actually had to do quality testing in the store before giving them away. I can’t imagine how many failed after knocking around in a drawer for a month or two.
I can only think that the first blackout of the season had hundreds of people cursing Radio Shack because the flashlight they were relying on didn’t work for shit. Nice advertising, guys.
- Maybe the pack of 10 water pistols for $5 I bought at Duane Reade gives the RS flashlight a run for its money. Maybe.
Update
When I wrote this thread, the store had offered me no redress and I had recieved no answer from a letter that I had emailed to the corporate website. Since then, I discovered that listed on the website is an 800 number for product issues. This morning I called that 800 number and reported the issue as it occured. The operator agreed with me that this never should have happened, but indicated that they had no mugs at corporate to mail me. Instead, they are mailing out to me gift certificates for the equivolent value of the mug in the hopes that I can find one at a different store location in my area.
If I had owned Dunkin Donuts, that’s exactly how I would have handled it. I couldn’t possibly ask any more of them, and given the result, I can’t in good conscience pit them.
So, what happens now?
Check the local Stop & Shops that have a DD in them–one of them just might have the mug