I usually leave 20% unless the service is substandard. My first wife was a waitress, I knew how hard she worked for how little money other than tips.

I agree the system in the US is screwed up.

You know who else is a notoriously bad tipper?

LeBron.

Tiger too. Ignorance.

kenm wrote:gotta say I always put down 20 %. Never heard of a 10 % tip.

That's my way too, I'll go up if the service is really good or the waitress is really hot, and only down if the service is terrible and the fault of the server only. I won't blame for shitty cooks or management.

When at a bar paying as I go I usually leave a dollar per drink, as I rarely order anything other than beer. If its a place I am familiar with and start a tab I will give at least 20 percent if not more.

Crickets from owner Larry Dolan.

Is he still compos mentis?

seagull wrote:Crickets from owner Larry Dolan.

Is he still compos mentis?

Why would he talk? He is making a lot of money and the team is doing poorly. He can only get himself in trouble if he talks.

Wow, we have a lot rich tippers here.

Not that way in the plains states.

I tip very well when the service is good. But if the service sucks so does the tip.

Waitress in RI just got a $460 tip on a $40 tab. A couple left 5 $100 bills as payment. The waitress did not know the couple and she thought it might be a mistake so she put the money aside. The couple returned about a month later and she asked them if it was a mistake and offered to return it. They said " no, that tip was what we intended and is for you".

Not bad.

husker wrote:Wow, we have a lot rich tippers here.

Not that way in the plains states.

Remember though, minimum wage laws vary from state to state and locale to locale for waiters and waitresses. I think nearly everywhere permits restaurants to guarantee their servers much less than minimum wage with the assumption they will make it up on tips. And for every dinner hour or lunch hour we've seen with servers scooping up healthy tip cash, they have also had hours with no customers while they were doing restaurant grunt work for less than minimum wage.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2083383/


I just saw a movie trailer on ESPN coming out on September 21st. Here's a trailer linked above.

"Trouble with the Curve," with Clint Eastwood.

An ailing baseball scout in his twilight years takes his daughter along for one last recruiting trip.

Jimenez's contribution to his club's August swoon: 1-4, 7.67 ERA, in six starts. He allowed 45 hits in 31 2/3 innings.

Since joining the Indians on July 31, 2011, Jimenez is 13-18 with a 5.46 ERA in 38 starts.

J.R. wrote:Jimenez's contribution to his club's August swoon: 1-4, 7.67 ERA, in six starts. He allowed 45 hits in 31 2/3 innings.

Since joining the Indians on July 31, 2011, Jimenez is 13-18 with a 5.46 ERA in 38 starts.

TFIR was here touting that Jimenez had lost a few mph on his fastball when we traded two pieces of the Shapiro-Antonetti "menagerie" (credit CharlieT) for him.

TFIR should have been with Shapiro's numbers guys.

We know TFIR can play tennis. We can presume he can hit a baseball.....or at least pick up that a guy is suspect before a trade.


That said, Jimenez is one of our best hopes at $5.75 million next season.

I may be wrong but I think Jiminez leads the league in Wild Pitches.

The funny thing about that is that when you have a trick pitch(split-finger) that you have trouble controlling one should use it when you have an 0-2 or 1-2 count and nobody in scoring position. But WHObaldo likes to use it with runners on second and third or bases loaded and the count 3-2. Usually results in a wild one that scores runs.

AMAZING!

Happy Birthday, DON SURBER!

(I don't think he visits here any more, though)

J.R. wrote:Happy Birthday, DON SURBER!

(I don't think he visits here any more, though)

He's had his hand full with his public blog, and also I'm sure as a columnist still making a living in print newspapers.

donsurber@dailymail.com