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Re: Cheap People
« Reply #15 on: March 15, 2007, 06:55:21 AM »
Wow, after reading various threads Tyler, I think you need to add generous and open hearted to the definition of sly!
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Re: Cheap People
« Reply #16 on: March 15, 2007, 07:48:05 AM »
Wow, after reading various threads Tyler, I think you need to add generous and open hearted to the definition of sly!

Aye that!
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Re: Cheap People
« Reply #17 on: March 15, 2007, 08:46:56 AM »

I once tipped $20 on a $12 meal. 


THAT'S what I'm talkin 'bout.



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Re: Cheap People
« Reply #18 on: March 15, 2007, 10:31:02 AM »
What's that..an 80% tip...dang... O:O

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Re: Cheap People
« Reply #19 on: March 15, 2007, 11:32:53 AM »
Here's a story about tipping:

My buddies and I were in a cow field....wait...wrong story.

A buddy and I went to have dinner when we were on a business trip (No, not a man date) and got seated.  When the waitress came up she asked how we were doing and we said "good" then asked how she was doing, she said, "ok."  Then I asked, just "ok," what would make you respond with "good?"  Then she said a $100 tip and started laughing along with my buddy and I. 

A couple min later she came back with our drinks and was talking to us.  She then asked, "are you two brothers?"  Which my buddy promptly replied, "Why, do you have a fantasy about being with two brothers?"  This caused me to almost spit my drink across the entire restaurant, but luckily I was able to avoid that.  But, it caused her utter embarrasement.  She was soo afraid to ask us anything after that.  After many akward exchanges, it was finally time for us to pay the bill.  We felt so bad to embarassing her that way that we left her that $100 tip.
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Re: Cheap People
« Reply #20 on: March 15, 2007, 12:02:07 PM »

We felt so bad to embarassing her that way that we left her that $100 tip.


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Re: Cheap People
« Reply #21 on: March 15, 2007, 01:54:59 PM »
Oh...so your the guy.

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Re: Cheap People
« Reply #22 on: March 15, 2007, 02:06:48 PM »
Oh...so your the guy.

_A_ winner......

not _THE_ winner

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Re: Cheap People
« Reply #23 on: March 16, 2007, 08:26:33 AM »
Back in the 80's I was gigging in a small town in Alberta and one night while on a break, I was sitting with a bunch of drunken rig pigs.  One of the guys (musta bin a consultant) gave the waitress a hundred as a tip and she was so astonished when she realized what it was that she came back and asked the guy if he realized what he had given her.  He just said "Keep it and bring us another round baby, before I change my mind." 
That must have been in like 1981 I think.  So a hundred bucks then was A LOT of money.
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