Y'know, it's easy to criticize. Fun, too.
Sometimes I hate the way I view the world. Not that I'm way off from reality, necessarily. But you spend a little time in traffic, or in line at the post office, or pretty much anywhere and you can easily get the feeling that nobody cares about anyone but themselves. And it rubs off; you start feeling like if you don't look out for yourself, no one else will. It's just an icky-ness that can consume you before you notice. Yikes.
So it's this kind of thing that I find heart-warming; it reassures me that the world is a decent place and sometimes people are good to each other just to be nice people (or at least coffee drinkers are...). From KOIN News 6 today:
1,000+ Starbucks Patrons Treat Next In Line
MARYSVILLE, Wash. - One woman's kindness to a fellow Starbucks customer has resulted in more than a thousand others spreading holiday generosity in Marysville.
The regular customer paid for the person in line behind her a few times before, according to The Everett Herald. When she did the same thing Wednesday, though, that good deed set off a chain of 1,013 customers who each paid for the next person's drink.
Many even tacked on an extra ten or twenty dollars, and shift manager Sarah Nix says Starbucks Corporation will donate to that money to the company's holiday toy drive.
A store employee says the seemingly spontaneous pay-it-forward run ended at 6:20 a.m. today.
The name of the iced-tea drinker who started it remains unknown.
Knowing how airheaded I am sometimes, I'd probably be that 1,014th person that says, "Wow, thanks!" and drives off without paying for the next guy's coffee, and then everyone that works at Starbucks thinks I'm an a-hole.
Merry Christmas!
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