greybeard":dkhs57q1 said:
3rd horse, 2nd race and plant your corn early this year.
Seriously, we really do tip--with $. In the last year, we tend to tip closer to 20% than 15% simply because everything anyone has to pay for now has gone up in price--groceries, electricity, cars, babysitters etc and wait staff's base pay has not kept pace. I have the little tip calculator app on my el cheapo flip phone set at 18%, but round up to the next $1--I ain't digging in my pocket for change to make it exactly what the device says it is supposed to be at 18%.
A real life parable from my past........
When my father was alive, I frequently visited him from my home in San Angelo. As many older guys do, he had his favorite places to eat and drink coffee, where all his friends hung out and told lies and shot :bs: ..one in particular. We would usually eat breakfast at his favorite place, then a few hrs later, return to the same place under the guise of "Lets run by the Hot Biscuit and get a cup of coffee". He just wanted to see his buddies. That repeated itself in the afternoon, usually after lunch at the same place and more often than not, return to eat supper when I or my brother were visiting. One day, we got ready to leave after a cup of coffee--my father put a quarter on the table, and I dropped $1. Dad lectured me about that a bit. "You pick that dollar up boy--that's ok for you--you're going back home tonite--I am going to be here every day and them girls will be expecting that $1 every time I come in here."
Tips used to irritate the crap out of me. My thinking was, that "no one forced the employees to work for <$2/hr and depend on tips--and no one had ever given me a tip in my mechanic or machinist work either, so why should it fall on me to pay most of a wait staff's salary?"
My current wife quickly changed that miserly thinking, as she reminded me of the days before I started dating her and used to go into the Kettle restaurant where she worked and trade her $20 bills for equal amts of her $1 & $5 tips, which later that night I was known to slip under the waist bands of young lady's g strings in the seedier establishment around Midland/Odessa.
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