"..ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER."
Posted on 05/07/2006 8:33:21 AM PDT by nuconvert
People that I hang around with usually all produce their wallets and kick in a bit more than they cost without getting all complicated and mathematical. If I had about sixteen bucks worth of the tab- I throw in a twenty and maybe a couple of ones for good measure. House gets their due and the server gets the rest- which is usually a pretty decent tip. Does it cost a bit more- yes. Are we made really welcome when we all file in again? Yes again.
Having worked for tips in the past -unless the service or food is really atrocious- we're good to our servers. And life has enough petty details that demand attention without adding more. :-)
Three choices: Change your name to/and act like: Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton or Al Gore!
"Wanna have a fun time? Next time you're in a restaurant with someone, quietly and slowly, while in conversation, start pushing or putting things, like the salt/pepper shakers, the posy vase, etc - over the halfway line onto their side of the table.
Watch them start to fidget and get more and more uncomfortable - You are 'intruding' on their invisible demarcation line ...it's called "territorial imperatives" -
I don't get why it is fun to cause someone to fidget and get more and more uncomfortable. You ruin someone's meal to prove to yourself something that is common knowledge? Way to go!
If you are ignorant enough to reward a bad waiter with a tip thats your problem. I go where I like and tip good for good service, If the service sucks so does the tip and it has nothing to do with cheap. You dont even know me and yet you have passed judgement on me, You are the jerk. I dont think I said I was a friend to this jerk who orders big and is too cheap to pay for his own meal. It happens sometimes with acquaintances , It only happens to me once with that acquaintence. If you dont want to argue dont post. I will defend myself from jerks who call me cheap.
I'll add one to the jerk list: people who stand at the cashier at a gas station or convenience store, spending their last $50 on scratch-off lottery tickets, painstakingly choosing one lucky seven, two pirates gold, then standing there while they scratch each of them off, and when their $50 investment nets them a $5 winner, continuing to buy more lottery tickets...
their=they're
The loud pipes argument is also discriminatory. Only Harleys and some Japaharleys are allowed to run straight pipes. Cops for the most part look the other way. But if a sportbike or other motorcycle has loud pipes, suddenly that's offensive and illegal. But Harleys, well they're Harleys, they do that.
***Yes, it is very wrong and some of the illegal parkers are hostile and defensive about it.***
Or stupid! Two weeks ago a young woman about 19 pulled into a handicapped space in my town and went into the supermarket. When she came out, a policeman was writing out a ticket. She protested that she shouldn't get a ticket because, "Nobody was using the space."
The policeman replied, "This is for people with a physical handicap, not brain dead people," and handed her the ticket.
She protested. He wrote out another ticket (more expensive one) and handed it to her.
I am amazed that in all these posts, hardly anyone mentioned cell phones and their misuse; which can range from talking on one while in a theatre to something like ignoring a check out clerk because you just must get this call. Cell phones are great things, but have turned a lot of otherwise decent people into jerks.
I love that cop!! Thank you for sharing!
cheap.
I've got a handicap placard on my Harley-Davidson.
(just kidding)
My Mom has one of those handicapped rearview tags and always insists my Wife and I use it.
We never do.
I knew a girl who was born with a forearm that didn't grow all the way -it stopped at her elbow, with underdeveloped tiny fingers at the tip. She said, "I was offered a handicapped tag once, but there's others who need them more than I do."
That line kinda stuck with me.
And if so, what if someone rolls into the john in a wheelchair just as you're stepping into the stall?
What is the proper thing to do? Anyone?
Just wait. Some busybody will make a law against using it without permission.
Of course, ENFORCING this law would be a big mess (in more ways than one *yuk*).
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