Why are Las Vegas cabbies so weird about tips?

[bugstud]

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maybe if there's a girl in the back to give me a bj i will tip, that seems above and beyond reasonable service

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funny story about that...

[juttelstud]

God, what's with all the nit responses. No, you obviously aren't obligated to tip well, but does it kill you to pay 35$ for a 30$ cab ride? Maybe I'm in the minority, but haggling over how much to tip a taxi cab driver seems like a such a trivial waste of time.

[Sciolist]

You can tell what someone is really like by how they treat people who are providing them with a service. People who don't tip/hate tipping, well....

Having said that, if someone starts harassing me for a tip, I won't give them a penny and I'll tell them why. If they don't harass me for it then I'm pretty generous (at least by UK standards, where there's much less of a tipping culture). Gotta spread the polite cabbie meme!

[MicroBob]

Nate, yes the cabbie is probably out of line.
And I hate having to tip for something like a cab-ride.
But the instant I read your post and saw that you are tipping $1.20 for a $6.80 cab-ride I thought, "Wow. Even I'm not cheap enough to do that."

I never asked anyone about it but I think the default minimum is around $2....even if the ride is only $6 or $7.

Yeah, so it's a high percentage for a tip. Big deal.
Valet-parking or getting a drink in a casino are free so if I tip $1 or $2 then I ended up tipping a percentage of infinity compared to the cost of the service.

So some of this stuff seems a bit out of whack.

$2 tip felt far more appropriate to me and not a single cabbie had to tell me.

I'm not much of a cab-rider though and I got more experience doing this in LV than any other place.
Maybe I was way over-tipping? I actually wondered that at the time.
I simply concluded, "there's no way I should only tip $1.20 or something for a $6.80 cab-ride. That just feels way too cheap to me. $2 tips it is!!" (or $2.20 or $2.40 or whatever some of the time).

I would probably also tip $3 for an $11 or $12 ride but wouldn't feel quite as bad if I only gave $2.20 or something on those I don't think.
Partly depends on friendliness/jerkishness factor and/or my own mood I guess.

[*TT*]

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I never asked anyone about it but I think the default minimum is around $2....even if the ride is only $6 or $7.

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Coming from NYC the default is 1 buck for the first 10 dollars. I generally tip 2 bucks at 9. This seems to be very common in NYC, I rarely see more or less than that in the circles of people I associated with.

[Lurker.]

one time i was in a cab and the total came to $7.50. I hand the guy a fifty, and he says, "you want change with that?"

I thought that was gutsy, but it costed him a tip.

[El Diablo]

All,

Today a friend ordered pizza, gave him a tip of a few dollars where one of the dollar bills was a $10 by accident. The pizza guy came back and knocked on the door, told him he accidentally gave him $10 extra. I don't know if he had him keep the $10 or gave him a $5 or what.

[knifeandfork]

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All,

Today a friend ordered pizza, gave him a tip of a few dollars where one of the dollar bills was a $10 by accident. The pizza guy came back and knocked on the door, told him he accidentally gave him $10 extra. I don't know if he had him keep the $10 or gave him a $5 or what.

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switch the one with a ten and a 100 for the ten and i ve been on the receiving end of this in a bar i worked at, but they were good regulars so i gave it back next time they came in, if they had been shitt y tippers probably not.

had a guy pull out about 600 in 20's, 50's to pay a $150 bill tip me nicely and leave the rest on the counter, chased him out to give it back and he tipped ten bucks a drink for like two months after that.
Super rich nice guy has lunch the other day in the wine shop i work at 57.99 was the total, as he is ordering cases of nuits st georges, tante berthe etc he hands me a twenty and says keep the change? i looked puzzled and before i say anything he see's it a twenty not a 100 and hands me 4 more twenties, i have gotten a fair amount of similar tips, so dont be afraid you are tipping too much it nevers hurts to be sure
second most everything shaniac has said 20% is a min for decent service for me(and no service person i know would be unhappy with 20 % either) and good service always gets more. want my last check to bounce too.
another favorite was the "do you sell smokes here?" me "no sir" him "damn i 'll give you twenty bucks for a pack of X five minutes later "all i got are fifties thanks for the favor keep it"

[illguitar]

Cheap...cheap...CHEAP people!!! TIP! Stop being so indignant, you nits. Debating 5-10% in tip difference is ridiculous when the difference is 1-4 dollars. Why would you care? The monetary difference to those in the service industry is huge over time, and relatively small for you for out-of-towners. You are poker players. Do something good for others for once!

[daryn]

just shut the [censored] up illguitar ty