"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "D.Currie" > wrote in message
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>> 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.
>>
>> Considering I specifically asked her to make change, I was more annoyed
>> than when a server has come back with just big bills. The smart ones will
>> usually break at least one of the bills down so you've got a ten, a five,
>> and singles instead of a twenty, but sometimes they just come back with
>> the change in whatever form is easiest. But I don't think I've ever asked
>> someone to make change and had them say there was none.
>>
>> I did some waitressing when I was a teenager, and one of the things I
>> learned early was that you made sure the customer had good change to
>> leave a tip.
>>
>> In this case, DH went to the cash register and got change. Didn't seem to
>> be a shortage there. Next time we go there, I'll make sure I've got the
>> right change for tipping.
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> We eat out every Sunday and we know approx what it costs. We always make
> sure we have enough change to give a proper tip.
>
> Ophelia
>

And if, on Sunday, you wanted to go out for breakfast but you didn't have
singles or coins enough to make the proper tip, you'd stay home?