"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote
> "Nancy Young" > wrote

>> "JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote
>>
>>> "Nancy Young" > wrote
>>
>>>> Tip guidelines went out the window, of course.
>>
>>> Tips in diners often *should* be way beyond normal guidelines. I know
>>> people who follow the 15-20% rule for a $3.50 breakfast. What assholes.
>>> My son figured out how wrong that was when he was 15.
>>
>> I'm in complete agreement. For instance, we'd go to New Hampshire
>> every year, breakfast in the dining room, you'd get all this stuff,
>> numerous
>> trips to the table for the waitress, and the bill would be in the range
>> of $5.
>> I am *not* leaving 75 cents ... or close to it.
>>
>> I know the flip-side argument is next, leave me out of it.

> Let me guess, and exaggerate (a little): "If them thar waitresses wanna
> make more money, they can pull themselves up by the bootstraps and get a
> better job, instead of sponging off society. If they weren't so busy
> making babies and mainlining heroin blah blah blah..."

(laugh) No, actually, I expect the 'why should I tip more because the
meal is more expensive' routine.

nancy