Honestly, I hate it when people brag about low-tipping like it's a sign of being good with money. I'm the cheapest person alive in some ways, but I know to tip, and tip well.

YOU TAKE THAT BACK ABOUT THE THERMOSES YOU TAKE IT BACK RIGHT NOW.

Yeah, I eat out a lot, and every once in a while, I have a really terrible experience like that. I once had a waitress chase us out of a restaurant and try to shame us into tipping her more after we tipped her ~15%. Like your experience, the service was atrocious. She mostly ignored us, got one of our entrees…

I finished work at midnight, was about to close my computer and go to bed when the link for this came up on my FB newsfeed at 6.30am. As always, I immediately "shared" it and now I'm not going to be able to go to bed until I've finished reading all the comments. Goddamn you, Mr Pinkham and your irresistible column! …

Good on you. Also, wow, his Mom sounds like an entitled ass.

I dislike them on principle (because ew), but also just because they're not very entertaining to me. I like it when assholes get publicly humiliated or when the revenge is particularly clever. I know the server probably got a kick out of it, but as a reader I get no satisfaction from the knowledge that this horrible…

Yes. That does actually make you a terrible person. I have bizarre curly hair and spent the first 25 years of my life trying to find someone to cut it in such a way that I don't look like a poodle on crack. I finally found that person and have spent the next 20 years (why yes, I AM fucking old, thank you very much)…

Only then did he realize I'd removed the cymbal from the stand and put it behind my drum throne. I was playing "air cymbal," keeping the beat with my bass drum and hi-hat. I smiled at the asshat. Big grin.

Why hurt the trainers, when we have ultra wealthy to feed to the killer whales.

" where the guests sometimes get to watch apex predators never meant to be kept in swimming pools savagely maul the performers during shows"

Or daily Hot Dish or some other sort of unspeakable canned soup-based casserole.

I am midwest, born and raised. And I found this story (and the writer's descriptions) hilarious.

As a midwestern Christian (who would a) expect higher prices in NYC, because common sense, and b) NEVER leave a religious tract with a tip, let alone instead of a tip), I agree 100%.

I worked in doctors office. I collected the paper that held the diagnoses for you after you saw the doctor as well as your co-pay. When I told a guy his copay was 10 dollars, he gave me a "bill" and told me to keep the change and basically bolted out.

I feel like their being Christians is relevant. He got a picture of Jesus as a tip. I don't think that atheists, jews, hindus, etc. do that. Also, as a someone who is not Christian and was raised in on the East Coast, seeing the extent of religiosity of can be pretty striking...

This shit makes me so anxious. I think it's like an uncanny valley of communication, where someone is speaking in a way that is so close to a normal human being (they're using actual words, appear to know what some words mean, etc), but are just not close enough to pass for a reasonable human. It stresses me out more…

"I'm sorry, I've never been to Starbucks." "NEXT!"

I feel bad for the next customer actually, because I literally stood there and stared at the stacks of cups for a good two minutes while my mind did a hard reboot.

Tattoo artists no tip needed? Really? I tip a kid a few bucks to bring me a diet coke you damn well better believe I'm going to tip a guy that is about to jab me with a needle for a few hours. If you go back to the same guy over and over again you might end up with discounts out of it too.

Baristas always get short-thrift in these discussions, and I blame that on Starbucks. So let me be clear: The drones working at your closest giant corporate coffee chain are not baristas, they're essentially fast food workers who just press a button to make a machine dispense burnt caffeine juice into a paper cup and…