You know what? Just keep it.

Today my friend CT and I took a mid-afternoon break to Starbucks. CT had a free coffee coupon and I was looking for a snack. Well, CT goes up to order his coffee and they tell him it's run out, he'll have to wait for a new batch to brew. CT says okay and moves to the side while the cashier turns around and gets the coffee started.

I step up and order pumpkin bread - $1.95. I give the cashier a $5 and only get $1.17 back. I wasn't really paying that much attention at the time - PUMPKIN BREAD! - so it took me until CT got his coffee to realize I was charged $3.83 for my $1.95 pumpkin bread. There's no way the Philadelphia tax jumped THAT much.

So CT, being CT, doesn't let me just leave. We have to go get my money back. So I tell the cashier that I think she overcharged me and she says, "But he bought the coffee. I put that on there too." So CT replies that the coffee is free - not because he has a coupon that the cashier didn't take, but because he had to wait for them to brew a new batch. In the words of CT, "If you have to wait, the coffee's always free."

Regardless, the cashier is getting visibly angry now and I'm beginning to almost regret my decision, when she asks CT for his free coupon. And CT replies, obviously, that the coffee was free anyway. Now the cashier's eyes start to bulge. CT says, "Ok, you want me to give you the coupon? Here." And the cashier spits at him, "You know what? Just keep it." Then I get the remainder of my change back and we leave Starbucks laughing hysterically.