General Discussion

The Starbucks manager was willing to pay forward the payment by the last customer of the day, but the last customer ruined everything? Hold on and let me see if I got the story straight

Next to last customer of the day, let's call her Godmother, got a free coffee but paid anyway, so the person behind her could also get a free coffee. So far, the Starbucks is $2.25 ahead of the game, right?

Next, the last customer of the day pulls up, the alleged jerk, let's call her Drucilla, pulls up to the window. She says she will pay $2.25 for her own coffee, but not for anyone else's. So, she coughs up $2.25 for her own coffee and drives off. Is that right?

Didn't Starbucks close that night still $2.25 ahead of the game? So, who was actually responsible for ending it that night and not giving the first customer of the next morning a cup of coffee? Drucilla or the manager of that Starbucks, who had been watching his employees get diverted by the running tally all day?

BTW, just for the record, it was a cute event/game, but no one really paid anything forward, except for the first customer who paid for her own cup and the next person's.