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I have teh total fear of going to Americky next month. I shall therefore not buy anything and let my brother do it all because he's used to your weirdy Americky ways. Hurrah!

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Mickey, have you figured out that the only people who care when waiters bitch are other waiters? And even they don't care that much.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

get me more soup, boy

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

Pls try to separate Mickey being Mickey from the shitty things that customers routinely do to waitstaff. Thank you.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

See if you hate doing stuff for other people so much, why do you work as a waiter? Seriously, is there *nothing* else you can do?

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

soup don't serve itself

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

ailsa, while in college for a part time job - no, really nothing better than that i can do. now that i'm done with college - yes. working on it.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

i spilled shit all over my shirt too so i had to rush home to try to wash and iron clothes before going back. ughhhh

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

xp The money is good and generally the people you work with are decent, but if serving makes you moan like Mickey, then quit.

Assuming a felon can get another job and all.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

milo z, otm about the felony. i'm worried.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Home soup is killing the food service industry.

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha

― cousin larry bundgee (bundgee), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

i always try to subtly get someone to get something else instead of soup. biggest pain in the ass thing to serve. slows down everything. plz do stick to campbell's.

― critique de la vie quotidienne (modestmickey), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

if you can find me a bar that actually goes by standardized THIS IS A PINT IT IS 160Z and not THESE ARE THE GLASSES WE HAVE THEY ARE SLIGHTLY BIGGIE SIZED COS THEY CAME FROM IKEA I will fall dead of shock.

Don't die. A beer can come in any size -- there's a place on the LES that serves rounds of 11 10-milliliter shots of beer -- but if you go to a beer-centric bar they are aware of what a pint is. The first place I happened to check specifies 20-ounce pints on their menu (because they're Britishy) but I don't think being standard is that uncommon.

― Paul Eater (eater), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

i could drink the shit out of a snakebite or a black and tan at the moment.

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

At the Longbranch in Knoxville you get beer served in a styrofoam coffee cup. It is cheap, though.

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

I like the places that serve bottled beer with a tiny, frosted glass

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

i was at an afterhours dive in memphis this weekend and they poured the contents of a bottled beer into a red solo cup. it felt like a high school keg party. i guess they don't want to give patrons glass bottles at 3:30 a.m.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

many venues will also do this if the acts fear shit being thrown at them.

― Ms Misery (MissMiseryTX), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

so that's why the Shimura Curves broke up

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha

― marianna lcl (marianna lcl), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

1 US pint = 0.832673844 Imperial pint

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

plus, our pints are imperial

― Ed (dali), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

The plastic cup thing has something to do with making their lives x% easier should the place get busted.

xpost

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

yea, well out money isn't worth shit, so we get a better deal on beer!

― UART variations (ex machina), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

to the guy in the business suit at my restaurant today who ordered the salad and bottomless (making sure to enunciate this word) soup: 10% is not an acceptable tip. especially after you made me get you 4 more soups. please, do not come back. if you do, please request a different server to run their ass off for you.

there's something about the way you tell these stories that makes me side with your asshole customers over you.

maybe it's because i wouldn't feel like tipping someone with obvious anger issues particularly generously.

― lex pretend (lex pretend), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck off lex

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

if you're paying $5 for a beer it's not a better deal.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 10:11 (eighteen years ago)

unless compared to crappy london clubs and music venues that charge £3 and give it to you in a bottle or plastic cup.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 10:14 (eighteen years ago)

I was asked if I wanted a "proper pint" in a bar in Monterey when they heard my British accent. I urge all Americans to get 25% free by doing the accent.

― caek (caek), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

Or go to Fabric where it costs £4 for a small bottle of beer - but then you don't really go there for the beer.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

I ran up a tab of six bottles of Kronenbourg then found out they were 9EUR each. I THOUGHT I'D DIE.

― caek (caek), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

eleven months pass...

maybe it's because i wouldn't feel like tipping someone with obvious anger issues particularly generously

I believe this is happening to me.

― o-ess, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:03 (seventeen years ago)

still tippin' on four vogues
wrapped in four vogues

― The Reverend, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:13 (seventeen years ago)

I don't like the implications in this thread that sitting at home drinking makes one a loser. That is something I do try to be considerate about: not going out to eat/going to bars/ordering in if I can't tip. (Tho sometimes I'll walk to the neighborhood restaurant and get to go without tipping. I think this is okay, altho I know when my sister worked Outback "to go" she got mad tippage, but I think this was because she was bending over to talk to men through their car windows to show off her grande tits. Well.)

I think , tho, it is well & good to generously tip pizza/food delivery people, esp. since gas costs so much and you are saving gas $$$. This is esp. nice if you don't have a car, or are drunk from thriftily drinking in your own home at a highly discounted rate, that they can bring this food to you and an extra $5 is not much. Now, if only Wing Stop had delivery people...

― Abbott, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:15 (seventeen years ago)

lol rev

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:17 (seventeen years ago)

I grew up thinking that tipping was real so I'm still kinda disbelieving that it's an urban legend.

― libcrypt, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:23 (seventeen years ago)

thankfully it is real, it is how they explain our minimum wage. though luckily irish tax people aren't very good at making us cough up a declaration of cash earnings. they'ved nabbed our credit card ones though, so if in doubt, always do cash. unless you are all for the taxing which i'd understand. Really, I'm torn.

― o-ess, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:35 (seventeen years ago)

Don't feel bad, Abbott, you are doing the right thing by only going out when tipping is in the budget.

― milo z, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:38 (seventeen years ago)

I don't feel bad except, just now, I looked at the bank account on the online and apparently the bar did NOT add the tip I wrote down on my receipt for my credit car tab. !!!! Why would they not do that? The man getting tipped was the one working & ringing it up.

I wish they delivered groceries here...I would tip a good $10 at least.

― Abbott, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:41 (seventeen years ago)

Background info: I went to a bar last night. My friend had never tried midori sours and I was like, 'wtf, you did go to college, right?' And now I have CORRUPTED her into liking the cheerleader drink, mwahaha.

― Abbott, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:45 (seventeen years ago)

How are you feeling about tipping this week?

Tip Jar Conundrum

Should I tip for a free drink?

Tipping again, non food

My secret technique for not tipping bartenders and getting good service.

― remy bean, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:47 (seventeen years ago)

You forgot:

tipping

― Abbott, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:48 (seventeen years ago)

by searching google for tipping trip, i just came up with a picture of my old cub scout troop

― remy bean, Monday, 21 January 2008 00:59 (seventeen years ago)

webelos at the tittybar

― sanskrit, Monday, 21 January 2008 01:03 (seventeen years ago)

i'm on it

xpost

― elan, Monday, 21 January 2008 01:04 (seventeen years ago)

haha maybe not

― elan, Monday, 21 January 2008 01:07 (seventeen years ago)

for me it's pretty simple - you tip because the waitstaff (here at least) get less than minimum wage, and if the 10 or so servers in rotation were each paid an extra $2 an hour to bring it into line, the price of the food you're eating would inevitably be more. so, tip because if other people didn't, you'd have to pay more anyways. other tippers are subsidizing your meal, in a way.

― negotiable, Monday, 21 January 2008 01:17 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlrnYoWW8IA

― El Tomboto, Monday, 21 January 2008 01:23 (seventeen years ago)

and this week in lake wobegone…

― remy bean, Monday, 21 January 2008 02:22 (seventeen years ago)

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