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Old 06-25-2007, 04:47 PM
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Default Re: Why are Las Vegas cabbies so weird about tips?

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Um...don't know anything about LAPoker's work history, but I worked my ass off my whole life for crap money, both in jobs that were tip-based and other grunt jobs, and I still feel that with money, what goes around comes around.

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I feel like anyone who has worked service industry will agree with this.

Also my hilarious cab story just because....

I live in Canada and we have dollar and two dollar coins. I had a bunch of them lying around that I wanted to get rid of so I grabbed a bunch on the way out of my house to pay for a cab. At the end of the ride I gave the cabby about 15 bucks on an 8 dollar cab ride.

He says something along the lines of "you must panhandle". I kind of laughed it off and he says, "seriously are you a squeegee kid". I'm kind of pissed and ask if there's a problem. The cabby is kind of losing it and yelling at me so I just ask for my tip back. He says fine how much did you tip? I tell him about 7 bucks. He kind of grumbles and throws some money back at me. I get out and close the door and he puts the window down and yells at me for slamming it and kept calling me a squeegee kid. At this point I get kind pissed and tell him to eff off and just go but he won't stop yelling squegge kid and that im going to be broke when I need to get a real job. I look at my friend laugh my ass off an walk away.

I feel like this story applies to any situation I'm in. I usually tip very well and even if the service is really bad I'll tip 10% but if someone totally [censored] up I have no problem tipping nothing to make a point (they need to [censored] up very bad)
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