August 31st, 2007 at 11:53 am
I always have interesting trips to Starbucks.
Buying a coffee and banana nut cake there, I decided to change my coffee size from a Grande to Venti. This was after the lady cashier had rung me up and given me $14.50 (change for the $20 bill I gave her). The manager comes over and cancels the transaction. He then tells her to redo the transaction.
All seems well so far, fairly straight forward job I thought. As I was about to take 35 cents out to cover the extra cost of the Venti sized coffee, the lady cashier proceeds to hand me yet another $14.50 back in change.
Now if I wasn’t a nice guy 
, I would have taken the change, my free coffee/ cake and been $14.50 richer from when I did go into Starbucks about 10 minutes earlier. I did tell her that she had already given me the change and I needed to pay an extra 35 cents but she didn’t seem to comprehend. I think she still didn’t know what I was talking about when she reluctantly took my extra 35 cents.
So that’s my good deed of the day with some karma points added in there too.
While I am on the subject of Starbucks, I found this Planet Green Game sponsored by them. It is a fun game to educate the public about climate change and how some of the things we do affect the environment.
4 Responses to “My good deed of the day”
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yoshi said: @ 12:21 pm
August 31st, 2007
what i’d wanna know is how in the world could she make that mistake?
I mean…seriously. why would you give back the same amount of change? I worry about the future.
yoshi said: @ 12:22 pm
August 31st, 2007
oh, btw, I’ve got free for all friday opened up on my site, feel free to stop by and make a post! :D
Janet said: @ 1:26 am
September 1st, 2007
Yes, that was a good deed. Having worked retail in the past, I have empathy for cashiers. It’s not that you are dumb, but the register does all the thinking and just seems to suck any math ability out of you.
kristarella said: @ 7:01 am
September 1st, 2007
Heh, that’s nice that she tried to give you more than you were owed. We went out for Japanese the other night and they charged the credit card twice, just because the mahine was out of paper and the receipt didn’t print. He would have done it a third time if I hadn’t stopped him!
I too felt I did a good deed yesterday. I stopped to help a guy pick up flyers that had gone on the ground after he dropped a box.
That’s a pretty good game… maybe a little much for my current attention span, but good. Apparently Melbourne is doing something good for the planet, perhaps I should get on Sydney’s back to follow their example.