Really? That’s what your take on this is? This behavior is all due to public schools? Riiight.

Bone broth truthers are the fucking worst.

The system works!

I was honestly always fine with 15%, when I waited tables (but then again, I was not living on one of the coasts then). I don't go under 20%, but I think if you really wanted, you could probably write an xoJane post advocating for a 15% standard and be able to cobble together a solid enough argument to avoid looking…

30% now? GTFO.

I waitressed for years and years and I was always happy with 20%. More is nice, but it's a bonus. Even slightly under (18% or so) never elicited grumbles. Anything under 15% and you better have a good reason though, like I spilled something on you or forgot your order.

20% is standard, now? When I served back in the late 90's, 15% was standard, and 20% was for excellent service.

I am pro-tipping and pro-tipping generously but 30% as a minimum is nutty.

This is a dude's fantasy and not a real story.

Yeah I think most people just wanna be left alone. Let their friends cheer them up; not some random on the street.

I don't usually agree with the jezebel crowd, but yeah. Leave strangers the fuck alone. Male or female.

Ok, all the responses you get, trying to explain to you why you do.not.do.this, don't they tell you something? Like, you are seriously overstepping your bounds here? I get that you don't see it that way, as you continue to defend your behaviour and think you're just misunderstood, and what you're doing is a positive…

Telling people to hide their feelings isn't going to cheer them up. Telling them to smile is exactly that: you're telling them to not look sad when they're feeling sad. I seriously hate when people tell me to smile, I have on of those permanently grumpy faces (okay, also I am permanently grumpy but that's just my…

Well, here's the thing. Here's a sample of what women put up with: Random guy: "Smile, beautiful! It can't be that bad!" My dilemma- do I acquiesce, give him the smile and hope it's enough to dispel him? Or will he take it as an invitation to further intrusions? But what will he do if I piss him off? And way too…

Wait, so if someone intrudes on my life and start making demands about my face and mood, and I'm not polite to them, I'm the bitch? You're actually going around telling people to put on a perfomance so that you feel better, and you see yourself as some good hearted person for doing that? Wtf is wrong with you? It's…

makes no difference to me if you're a man or a woman— don't tell me to fucking smile. Ever. You do not know me or know what I have going on. Don't tell people to smile.

Dude, women on here, a site for women, are trying to tell you that even though you may have the best intentions, it's pretty much unwanted attention, what you're doing. It's really really not cool to ask a woman you don't know, who already looks like they just may not be having a good day, if they want to engage in a…

"I mean I've tried to cheer people up that look like they're having a bad day."
It's nice that you're trying to cheer people up, but issuing commands like this implies that you don't think that person really has the right to have their face, or their emotions, like they want them. I have been through some enormously…

Well, of the four times I've been physically assaulted on the street, the time I punched the guy in the chest while telling him to "fuck off" was the time I get left alone the fastest, so.

Love it!