"Ophelia" > wrote in message
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> "D.Currie" > wrote in message
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>> "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
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>> 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?
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> Not at all) We always make sure we have change Really it isn't rocket
> science We always have change to tip the paper boy too LOL. Any one
> pound coins we get we put into a pot
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Well, I haven't reached that level of perfection yet.

Quite often my small bills and quarters go into my business's cash register
so I can give my customers change when they pay with larger bills. So I'm
much more likely to be carrying twenties than singles. It never dawned on me
that a business would have an issue with giving out change to customers.
Sometime you run out, but in my neighborhood, the nearby businesses would
often stop at each other's shops and ask to make change for a customer if
the register was short. And when you have a chance, you run to the bank.

I really fail to see why I need to carry exact change for a tip,
particularly when I don't know what the bill and tip are going to be. When I
was a waitress, I always had plenty of singles and change, so it never
really struck me as critical that I have exact change when I'm a customer at
a restaurant or any other business. I like to have the change when I go to a
restaurant, just because it's easier for me not to have to wait for change,
but I'm finding it interesting how many people think it's some sort of
"rule" that you have to have exact change.