went to a club with some friends and some friends of friends. There was this one guy I meet that night who was the biggest POS I've ever meet. He would make his rounds around the club drinking other peoples drinks while they were dancing or in the bathroom.

friend who works there thinks we should still be paying 30+tip, i think something like 27 or so is plenty. essentially he feels we should still be paying full price, except the bartender gets it instead of the bar. my friend is friends with the other bartenders, and i have a strong feeling they all bring in their friends and pressure them into giving the bartender more money for "free" drinks.

this seems like a bigger deal than it is really, its not something we argue about or anything, it just seems really weird to me.

STFU ABOUT TIPPING

I one thousand percent agree, just posted my bartender tipping opinion bc I know jks is opening a bar. there have already been 8000 threads about this stuff and the stingy stories are better.

I used to know a loser who would save the twisty part from a joint to get that 1 or 2 flakes from it. He also saved the stalk and cut it up and smoked it.

I got a Sports Illustrated fleece blanket as part of my Christmas gift a few years back. And no, I did not get the actual magazine subscription.

one christmas my ex gf got given some disposable plastic cups and some pieces of balled up paper by an aunt. it was meant to be the equipment for a magic trick. this was apparently a pretty standard type of gift for her to give and not a joke.

also +1 for STFU ABOUT TIPPING OMFG

You should inform him that amazon does not charge sales tax.

I saw someone charge 3.65 of their 3.66 purchase on their credit card and grab a penny out of the tray.

My managers would usually split the tips they made all night up between the servers working that night.

This was a great thread until I got to the tipping part.

When Taco Cabana first came to College Station, they put buyonegetonefree coupons for fajita tacos in the A&M newspaper. Me and my wife found a stand between semesters with dozens of loose ones and snatched them up.

Then we found they were also in the back of our phone book. After those ran out, we went down and got extra phone books, just for the coupons. They just gave us 10 or 12 phone books.

We were poor college students.

It was a long walk. I don't remember exactly, but I think at least 2 hours.

Growing up, we'd go to McDonald's once in awhile with coupons from the Sunday newspaper: 99 cents for a Big Mac, 99 cents for a Quarter Pounder w Cheese, etc. These coupons were one-per-customer-per-visit, so we'd get on different lines to use more than one.

My mom goes to Costco 2-3 times a year.

I still do this.

i used to work at an east-coast-style pizza counter. $2 slice of cheese pizza. delicious, crispy, hot, and wonderful. and yet it attracted all manner of BS.

my (least) favorite was the archetypical wasted college girl who would come in wearing $500 shoes, carrying a designer handbag and wearing enormous fashion sunglasses or a silly designer hat or coat or something and then try to wheedle us into knocking .50 off the price of a slice of pizza. and then pay for it with a combination of the wrinkled dollar in her pocket and the last dollar on her credit card.

i consider myself relatively quick-witted in conversation, but one of the few times i've been left completely speechless was when a man standing outside the bar, smoking a cigarette, asked me if he could bum a cigarette.

well actually, a loot of distributors in california trade cocaine for marijuana that comes out of british columbia.

wow, i dont wanna say you watch too many movies. I wanna say that THERE JUST MOVIES.

nobody is trading blow for weed straight up (oz for an oz! YA MAN)

great thread until this post

LOL, this. I learned recently that employers still have to pay employees minimum wage if their tips do not cover that.

The story about the guy handing single sheets of toilet paper out to his houseguests has to be the winner.


I'm not sure if this is really "stingy" but my brother-in-law will go to a casino, find a 1 cent slot machine, and proceed to play 1 penny on a single line until the machine hits a pay of any amount. 3 cents, 4 cents, whatever. He cashes out immediately and moves on to another machine because that one is all used up. Not so much stingy as the worst use of time in the history of mankind.

And when he walked up behind his sister playing 25 cent video poker he just about gasped and said "Did you know that's a quarter?!"

yeah i hate this and it just happened today at dinner with my roommates. bill is 61, so plus tip should be ~71 (i generally tip 20% but when figuring out the tip for a group who i know don't tip as much, i figure about 16% or so). i work out that one roommate and i owe 23 each and the last one owes 25. they both agree. my friend then takes the cash and pays with a credit card (i have no issue with this), leaving an 8 dollar tip, paying 69 total. wtf? that's a 13% tip. the service wasn't great but it was at least average. if you wanted to tip less, speak up when i work out what each of us owe.

i didn't speak up at the time but next time i see it happen i'm going to make it a point to say something.

My GF's friend's husband pulls the CC scam all the time. I don't want to cause a problem with friends who aren't mine, so I just put in my cash minus the tip and give the cash to the waiter when they come by to pick up the credit card. Waiter gets his tip, cheapskate kinda gives me an "I see what you did there" look, and I get to feel morally superior.

I also had a friend in college who would gladly take rounds from everyone, then sneak off throughout the night to get his own drinks. To save face he would offer to buy a round once in a while, but he would do so at the beginning of the night (when there were less people there), and he would offer about 3 minutes after the first round was purchased so that some people would decline because they already had a drink.

At IHOP with a friend in college:

waitress: what would you like to drink?
friend: how much is orange juice?
waitress: small is $1.29 and large is $1.49
PAUSE
friend: ummmm...I'll just have a water.
PAUSE
waitress: ok
friend: don't worry...I tip well.

I heard this one about the guy who was so cheap, that when he found out his 7 yr. old son put his tooth under the pillow hoping the tooth fairy would bring him some money the guy put a Canadian quarter he had found in his pocket under the son's pillow.