Ever since I saw the commercial, I've wanted them. So Sunday we embarked on the quest. Who knew it would do difficult. McDonalds has produced a set of Olympics cups. There are 5 of them, in 5 different colors. Black, Green, Orange, Blue and Red.
We started our quest by driving to the nearest McDonalds to where we were (on 17th ave, and 14th st.). To our shock and amazement, they didn't have any cups. Using Troy's handy iphone, we were able to locate many different McDonalds in Calgary, and headed off in the direction of another. Troy called 31 McDonalds on Sunday (no joke, we counted!), and we visited 3. It was an absolute blast.
About 1/2 way through our quest, Troy's phone was losing battery, fast. So we decided not to continue the small talk with the McDonalds employees. Basically, the conversations up until then, went roughly like this "Hi, do you happen to have any Olympic cups?" "No, we're sold out, and won't be getting any more", followed by pleasantries, and then good-bye. (that's a bit of a condensed version, not to mention language barrier problems). I strongly suggested to Troy, to save battery power, he should just hang up after he heard the "no". That seemed to work, but was not as fun.
So our last several calls ended with Troy yelling "CRAP" following the "no" or else "DAMN!". It was even more fun when he started to pretend he was really mad. I nearly peed my pants.
Anyways, if you happen to find me a red Olympics cup, I would be forever grateful.
*I can't even find one on the internet to copy and paste to see how cute they are! For shame.
- still on the quest for the cup
S
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Quest for the Cup
Posted by Shara at 5:45 PM
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OK ...you guys are officially scaring me!!! McDonald's cups!!?? Do we need to come out for a visit!!??
Love ya both.....but don't ask me to drink out of those things!! :) Bonnie
Language barriers at McDonald's? No! Can't be!
I'll keep my eyes peeled. The cups are cute and they are quite the collectable. My Grandma still has her Nagano cups from McDonald's.
Maybe if you get enough you can spell out the word "Loser." Ha!
@ anonymous : if you can't say anything nice, a) don't say anything at all and b) don't read someone's blog
@ anonymous (first anonymous) I hereby apologize for defending "Troyzgirl" from your attack. Perhaps "Loser" is the best term to describe her.
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