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I will watch for you on the news after you've grabbed someone's Big Gulp out of their mitts and dumped the ice out, yelling, "You're not getting full value, you moron!" It's going to come to that point, you know.
Just like Mommie Dearest had issues with wire hangers, not using ice at the self-service soda fountain can be your anger provoking cause.
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There is the best pseudo-psychological post ever. YOU WIN!
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nothing.
"What I never understood is why someone would pay extra for an extra-large drink when they are eating in the restaurant where free refills are available -- I mean, so I might have to go get refills an extra time, if I'm drinking a lot. Why not just pay for a small and refill as needed?"
Excellent point! I wish I had thought to put that in the OP!
Thank you for mentioning it.
Ah. So that's what the thread is about. Why the customers sued Starbucks and the differences between that and filling a Coke with ice:
A. The customer is CHOOSING to fill/not fill the cup with ice. In the Starbucks case, the barista is the one choosing to fill/not fill the cup.
B. When a customer puts ice in the cup, he/she is aware of how much ice in the cup. In the Starbucks case, he/she was not aware of how much coffee the barista was putting in the cup, since the foam blocked the customer's view of its fullness.
C. A Coke costs about $2.00. A Starbucks latte costs about $4-$5.
D. Starbucks allegedly did this to hundreds of thousands of customers over a period of years, thus making millions of dollars it did not deserve. When I fill my cup with ice, I decide for myself that ice is more important to me than Coke. I am not deceiving myself; I make a conscious decision to put more frozen H2O than Coke in my cup, thus allowing the business to make more money on my purchase. Starbucks customers were not offered such a choice; they were possibly lied to and deceived. The courts will decide if it is true.
Why, how amazingly insightful! Who would have thought that the last sentence of a post, which was added as an afterthought, could explain the whole post and all the posts in the thread! AMAZING!!
I never thought of it that way, and I wrote the post!
the armchair psychologist wins again.
(sarcasm off)
They pay for the drink and whether they choose to fill it up with mostly ice, little ice, or no ice at all, is of no consequence to the OP.
This is one of the billions of preferences different people have.
So what's the gripe for?
Maybe the OP is genuinely curious about why people fill their cups with ice. Or maybe it's because the OP, like many people on C-D, doesn't know how to mind his/her own business. Pick one.
Maybe the OP is genuinely curious about why people fill their cups with ice. Or maybe it's because the OP, like many people on C-D, doesn't know how to mind his/her own business. Pick one.
Someone had better pass some legislation to regulate this practice; don't they know that every cube they use is one less for a chill-challenged polar bear somewhere?
Maybe because they want it to be COLD, instead of seeing how much they can rip off the restaurant?
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It's going to come to that point, you know. 
