Dating bad tippers.

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At the restaurant I work at, some guy left a phone number along with a really really bad tip. I remember him being sort of cute. Taking into account my somewhat low standards - do I call?

― Phil-Two, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If he suffers from leprosy, he might leave a tip DURING the date.

― dave q, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If he's after a date and tipping badly then I guess your level of service doesn't come into it. He's either:

a) a recent immigrant who doesn't understand your city's insane tipping rituals
b) very arrogant
c) something mysterious and worth finding out about

I'd say go for it - 2/1 odds on chance it'll be worth it, assuming he did mean you to call him and hadn't just dropped a business card by mistake

― Nick, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Does he work in a stereo-shop? Did he invite you to the Point? Is your restaurant located in a mall? Is there a cinema across the restaurant? If so, go for the ticket-guy. I heart Fast Times At Ridgemont High.
Tipping is DUD.

― nathalie, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

tipping = classic for anyone who's ever had to work in a restaurant. All right, all you Steve Buscemi-from-Resevoir-Dogs wannabes! Declare yrselves so I can toss a plate o' flambe at ye!

(actual worst thing I ever did to a non-tipper: stole the old man's seat cushion he brought w/ him).

― tha chzza, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

As long as it doesn't involve food and excrement/genitalia, anything done to non-tippers is copacetic in my world view. Shoot the bastard in the head but please don't piss in his coffee cuz that's EWWW.

― Dan Perry, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We've done this one. The conclusion was that Americans were tip- obsessed lunatics eager to throw their money away and that Brits were stingy but sensible.

How come a nation so desperately eager to cut its taxes and welfare to the bare minimum then embraces the concept of the 20% mandatory tip?

― Tom, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Onion has all the an swers, Tom.

― tha chzza, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Hell, all the waitresses I know don't date good tippers so fuck 'em.

― JM, Tuesday, 4 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm still fascinated by the idea of leaving your phone number for a waitress you find attractive. Is this acceptable behaviour over in USland?

― DV, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

note Tom's scurrilously non-blue text that allows him to get away this revisionism.

low taxes + no welfare = "thousand points of light" otherwise known as "you pay them their minimum wage, then, tax hata". Greaaat.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

To answer question: NO. unless you see the bad tip as emblematic of a resistance to shifting stewardship of the public weal from the public to the private sector. then I'd say GO FOR IT.

― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Did you do anything to deserve a bad tip? I'd not bother calling, fuck the mofo, who does he think he is, leaving no cash and a phone number? And if he left a lot of cash, what does that imply? Prostitution? Argh. It's way too much, the guy is no good, he should be beaten with a stick.

― Ally, Wednesday, 5 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

Did you call?

― Nick, Saturday, 22 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

You know, I'll bet this guy was trying not to leave a big tip, on the grounds that he didn't want to seem like a creepy "now you have to sleep with me" type.

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 10 October 2002 18:29 (twenty-two years ago)

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