100s of Customers Pay for Each Others’ Starbucks; 1 Jerk Ruins it All

[merrily]

31. It does not matter if Drucilla was the last customer of the day or not,

except that it made the issue of carrying it over to next day easier to illustrate. Besides, the article does not tell us what happened after Drucilla left. There is only the claim, which seems totally false, that Drucilla was the jerk who ended it all.

As for your question, the article seems to ask us--implicitly ask us--to believe that everyone in line at that Starbucks that day ordered a coffee of the same aize and kind and accepted the free coffee. That, too, seems bogus to me. I believe some ordered bigger sizes of coffee or no coffee at all. I even believe that some, offered a free coffee, declined to take any coffee at all.

But, sticking to the main premise of the article--namely, that Drucilla was the jerk who ended it all, even that does not seem to be true. If she had accepted a cup paid for by someone ahead of her AND also refused to pay for her own, you could say she ended it. Even then, it would have been the store manager's decision whether to start over by handing out a cup on the house to the next customer and asking that customer to "pay it forward."