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Default Bad waitress tricks

On 16 Mar 2006 22:44:11 -0800, "-L." > wrote:

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>D.Currie wrote:
>> We went out to dinner tonight to a local place. When it came time to pay, I
>> needed the waitress to make change so I could tip her. She came back with a
>> five and a ten, and muttered something about "sorry, no change." Grrr. Five
>> bucks was less than 15 percent, but even though she wasn't a spectacular
>> waitress, I didn't want to leave that little. We go to this place often, and
>> we've had this waitress before. But the full $10 was more than 20 percent
>> and that bugged me. Half of me was thinking she was just a little too dumb
>> to understand that I needed the singles for the tip, but the other half of
>> me was thinking that she was pushing me to make the choice between the $5
>> and the $10 and figuring she'd get the better tip.

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>I would have left her the $5 and left. She asked for it.
>-L.



My sentiments too.


jim