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Friday, December 21, 2012

Holiday Kindness: Strangers Buy Each Other Coffee at Starbucks

Someone bought a coffee for someone behind them in line. That started a trend that continued all morning.

OUTSIDE BALTIMORE, MD -- UPDATED (1:50 p.m.)— Something remarkable happened at a local Starbucks Friday morning.  During the morning rush at the new Starbucks at the Waugh Chapel Towne Centre, someone decided to by a coffee for the person behind them in line. Then that person did the same, and the trend continued all morning, with more than 150 customers taking part.  "I was #137," Dayna Ostler said on the Crofton Patch Facebook Page. "I bought for the 2 people behind me!" According to employees and customers on Facebook, the chain involved people using Starbucks' drive-thru window, though the generosity did take place inside also.  (I stopped by at about 10:50 a.m. and no one was there to buy my coffee. But I paid for the nice lady behind…

Bill Dee

12:28 pm on Wednesday, December 26, 2012

Merry Christmas, Lynne. I hope you are your family had a wonderful holiday.   more ›

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