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0 pointsjrockway16y ago0 comments

These coffee shops should just charge a dollar more. I do not shop around for the best price on coffee. I want good coffee.

The time I was yelled at, btw, was for giving 3 quarters as a tip for a $3 cup of coffee. "It would have been more polite" to give a whole dollar, and not as change, but as a dollar bill, I was informed (by some other customer). OK, but I don't have another dollar bill, and I really don't care to carry around those three quarters...

I did try for a few days to have an extra dollar and tip with that (carefully saving up the change for use in wishing wells)... but nobody said thank you or anything, so I gave up. If I have to go to a lot of effort to give someone money and they don't care, eventually I am going to get tired of doing it. And I did. (Did one person ruin it for everyone? Yup.)

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lsc16y ago

now, I don't work retail myself, so I don't know for sure, but I imagine that it's pretty easy to turn the change into bills if that is what they want; I mean, they need the change anyhow, right? I mean, turning one denomination of currency into another is a large part of the job. and the register is right there, right? and .75 seems like a reasonably nice tip on a $3 item, especially if they aren't taking it to your table or what have you.

so, I guess, what credentials does that other customer have? E.G. why are you taking their seemingly unusual tipping advice seriously?

I mean, personally, I almost always dump the change in the tip jar, but if I like the place and the change seems like a small tip I drop in another buck. I guess I'm cheap 'cause I don't usually tip more than that at 'to go' type places.

jrockwayOP16y ago

what credentials does that other customer have? E.G. why are you taking their seemingly unusual tipping advice seriously?

Good question. I am pretty good at ignoring people online, but not so good at it in real life.

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