One time on Usenet, Katra > said:

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> and if I get REALLY bad service, I leave 2 pennies on the table!

This reminds me of an incident that happened in the early 70's,
when I was pretty young. My mother and I had a nice lunch at a
local diner, and I really like the waitress. On the way out, I
put some money on the table for her, just as my mom had done.
It was all that I had, but since I was about 7 years old, it was
a mere two cents. I thought I was being nice, but my mother was
horrified when I told her about it later -- she said what I had
done was terribly insulting, even though she had left a decent
tip herself. I wonder what that long-ago waitress thought when
she saw those two pennies...


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