Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Pay it Forward

starbucks1280x1024_stains "You're all set."

"What?" I'm sitting at the drive-up window at Starbucks."

"Yeah," says the cashier, "the car that was in front of you paid for you."

"What?" I ask. "Why?"

"Because the car in front of him paid for him. This has been going on all day."

I looked in my rear view and there are no cars behind me. "Am I last in the chain?"

"I guess so. Lucky you."

Then a car pulls up. I don't want to be last in the chain. I want to participate. But what if the car behind me is getting coffee for the whole office? What if everybody gets a cookie? Or they buy a pound of coffee? Should I make a break for it with my free coffee? Should I break the chain?

"What did they get?" I ask.

"Two talls" (which means 'small' in Starbucks speak), she says.

I had too "grandes" (mediums) so no matter what, I make out. "I'll pay for theirs."

Now I'm a hero. What did you do nice today?

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

How cool is that?! Have you been watching The Big Give on Sunday nights?

Anonymous said...

Around Christmas time, that idea was really popular at our store's drive-thru. There was always a grinch that broke the chain though.

I'm glad you weren't the grinch. :)