RrrimRrrrollerrrr to the Rrrescue!

Big news here in the Land of the Strong and Free : 

Now you don't need to lose your teeth to find out if 

you've won a bagel or a Toyota Hybrid!

A man from Ottawa—with the true Canadian spirit of giving—has created a tool to help coffee addicted Canadians have an easier go at rolling up the rims of their paper coffee cups.

I was at a Timmy's establishment the other day while on a lunchbreak with my co-worker Steve. I noted that Steve has roller-thumbs, which implies he has the ability to unroll the rim of his cup with great ease. If you look carefully as you go about your daily errands in public, you can witness Canucks fighting their coffee cups to unlock the prize that is hidden in the rolled rim. Various methods are employed for this task: pearly-whites (or coffee-stained, depending on how determined one is on winning the prize), car keys, nailclippers (did anyone else just throw up in their mouth a little?) and the fingernails of nearby seated Timmy patrons (hey, we're Canadian, we help eachother out). I can tell you, that I was not born lucky enough to possess roller-thumbs. My teeth no doubt, will come back in another life to eat me as I have been left with no choice but to bite into the rim in order to learn if I am a lucky cash prize winner, or the recipient of one of millions of Honey Crueller and Boston Cream doughnuts to be awarded.

Because it is such a time-consuming and stressing task (and we Canadians are too laid back to be bothered with this sort of thing), the Timmy Ho's corporation has actually posted how-to instructions on their site to keep us double-double drinkin',maple syrup eatin', salmon fishin', hockey-playin' freaks, happy. 

And they are as follows :

Like the professional curlers we watch on TV, they make it look so damn easy; but the truth is when we try it, it's embarassing and humbling, and it's not so easy getting out of the hack when you are gliding on the ice with only a broom to support you and the skip is hollering at you keep the rock steady. No, it's not easy for us amateurs —we need to eat wax still, because like Steve we were not all born lucky with roll-up-the-rim-to-win thumbs.

Enter Paul Kind, from Ottawa. He has created the RimRoller , a small apparatus you carry with you on your keychain, guaranteed to be with you any time you might feel a pang for a double-double coffee, or suddenly feel really, really lucky. 

So I'm thinking... shouldn't we nominate Paul Kind for The Greatest Canadian?