Jester's Guide to Inappropriate Tips

[Andara Bledin]

Yeah, we'll need help choosing what to give the people who do want to get shit-faced...

Um, really, if you don't drink, just have cider. If people are really interested in getting shitfaced, they'll come up with ways on their own.

My wedding was dry. We had sparkling cider. Even though at least 3/4 of the attendees (including the groom) were the type to normally get pretty plastered when the opportunity presented, not one of them said a word about it. It was rather nice.

^-.-^

[LadyAndreca]

My wedding was dry, too. (It helped that the church we had the reception at didn't give us a choice, but we had already decided on dry before we picked the site.) One of my husband's coworkers even drove over to Costco to get sparkling cider for us and decided to make a gift of it.

Many of my relatives drink socially, but I just can't stand the taste and Matt disapproves of alcohol in general. No one said anything about it, and much fun was had despite the lack of inebriation.

[Gurndigarn]

I'm not actually getting married until I'm 20 or 21, most likely 21, if you're thinking legality...

Not really. Just giving general advice.

[Angry_Hippie]

In the past when I smoked (clove cigarettes and sticky green stuff) I partake in neither now. I'd tip waitresses with said green stuff. They would have to be ones I knew pretty well and trusted and it had to be something they were into. I'd leave the usual 20% cash tip and then put a nice big bud in an empty cigarette pack and whisper something along the lines of "enjoy after work" to the waitress on my way out. I don't think it was sucky, maybe inappropriate. But the past is the past.

[Pagan]

Foreign money.

When given with an appropriate cash tip of the money of the realm, this can be a nice little novel souvenir. I have some Bahamian and Mexican money in my wallet from such times. But I have also had people tip me in money from their country IN LIEU of American money. Seriously, what the hell am I gonna do with a seven meshuggenah note from Idiotnia?

I'm sure you've already thought of this, but couldn't you go to the airport? My parents got their pounds and euros exchanged in El Paso (we didn't think of it in Albuquerque due to jet lag) got back from the UK.

Racing towards me through the postal system is my official ordination as a minister in the Church of Beer (beerchurch.com). And yes, it will make me an actual ordained minister, capable of performing Beer Weddings.

"I'm sorry, I can't accept this pamphlet, as I am already a minister in a different church...."

So....do we have to call you "Reverend" now? Or "Beer Meister"?

I saw a great shirt on CafePress: "You don't need to save me, I'm not lost."

[Peppergirl]

In the past when I smoked (clove cigarettes and sticky green stuff) I partake in neither now. I'd tip waitresses with said green stuff. They would have to be ones I knew pretty well and trusted and it had to be something they were into. I'd leave the usual 20% cash tip and then put a nice big bud in an empty cigarette pack and whisper something along the lines of "enjoy after work" to the waitress on my way out. I don't think it was sucky, maybe inappropriate. But the past is the past.

Dayummmm. Where were you back in my waitressing/pot smokin' days?

[Jester]

I don't suppose PA in April hits you any better?

Well, it doesn't sound quite as frozen, so possibly.....

and as a 17 year old (18 in another month, RAWK!) non-drinker (If I wanted it I could get it. I live in a college town.), engaged to an 18 year old non-drinker...

Yeah, we'll need help choosing what to give the people who do want to get shit-faced...

1. I hope you are not getting married quite yet. Way to early, in my opinion. (Here endeth lecture mode.)

2. It being your wedding, you can decide whether or not to have booze for other people.l Weight the pros and the cons of both sides.

3. I can always help, even from afar, in choosing adult beverages, so if you need help, just let me know.

I'd tip waitresses with said green stuff. They would have to be ones I knew pretty well and trusted and it had to be something they were into. I'd leave the usual 20% cash tip and then put a nice big bud in an empty cigarette pack and whisper something along the lines of "enjoy after work" to the waitress on my way out. I don't think it was sucky, maybe inappropriate.

Hey, if you knew them, and were tipping them cash and this was on top of that, and they were into that sort of thing, I see nothing wrong or sucky or inappropriate with this. ILLEGAL, sure, but that is a whole other story.

I'm sure you've already thought of this, but couldn't you go to the airport?

Hell, we have places that change money here, considering all the different nationalities that come here, but why should I have to make that extra trip to be able to use my tips? Especially since they tend to charge a fee to change it. Also, and this is important, generally speaking the foreign money they left, once changed, would come to a whopping 7 cents or so....not even worth the trip to the money changers.

So....do we have to call you "Reverend" now? Or "Beer Meister"?

"Jester" will do just fine. Or my actual first name, if I am actually there in person. If formalities are called for, "Minister" or "Reverend" will do just fine. "Reverend Jester." Oh, I LIKE it!

I saw a great shirt on CafePress: "You don't need to save me, I'm not lost."

Oh, I WANT that!

[Pagan]

Hell, we have places that change money here, considering all the different nationalities that come here, but why should I have to make that extra trip to be able to use my tips? Especially since they tend to charge a fee to change it. Also, and this is important, generally speaking the foreign money they left, once changed, would come to a whopping 7 cents or so....not even worth the trip to the money changers.

Yeah, true dat. I'm guessing you don't get much in the way of euros or pounds to make it worth it!

"Jester" will do just fine. Or my actual first name, if I am actually there in person. If formalities are called for, "Minister" or "Reverend" will do just fine. "Reverend Jester." Oh, I LIKE it!

Oh, I WANT that!

Ooooookay....Reverend Jester it is!
And I so totally didn't notice that that "lost" thing is on a bumper sticker. But they've got plenty of other great shirts that get the point across just as well. Just type "pagan" into the search box and voila!

[Seshat]

I did tip in foreign money once.

I was in the States, with a friend. We'd planned on using my card as the method of payment. Unfortunately, when the time came to pay, the card system went down, and she couldn't accept traveller's cheques (my main source of emergency backup money).

Between the contents of my wallet, my friend's wallet, and my backup cash, we covered the meal. But not the tip.

Fortunately, we were in an Outback restaurant, and I'd been chatting with the waitress about Aussieland. So I gave her an Aussie $10 note and explained a bit about it.

She seemed pleased, and when we promised to come back with an actual tip, told us not to worry. If I recall correctly, we did come back with a tip a few days later anyway.


But that's my 'bad tip' story. And I'm the culprit.

[tropicsgoddess]

You know that massive black actor who played Bear on Armageddon and Coffey on The Green Mile?

Not to be that actor you're talking about is Michael Clark Duncan. He also played Kingpin on "Daredevil". That dude is a hell of an actor!

[Hemily]

This, perhaps?

why does it have the norwegian flag on it? and even the norwegian word for three? o.O we don't use dollars...

[Dreamstalker]

Antarctica? Ooh, I want.

At the bookstore, I would get "tipped" in oddball coins at times. Tourists from overseas would buy a lot of books, have them giftwrapped, I'd get a tip in USD and most times I'd also get some "souvenirs" in the form of the customer's native currency. Post-conversion most of it wasn't worth much but it was in addition to USD and I collect the stuff anyway.

I've been paid in cash by overseas ebay customers* before (Euro/GBP) which isn't a problem as my mom goes over there fairly regularly and will buy it off me at the current exchange rate. Most buyers who mail cash round up to avoid the hassle of mailing coins (i.e, 38 Euro sale, I get 40 Euro) and tell me to "keep the change" as it's rare to find US sellers who accept non-US currency.

* said practice is deemed "unsafe" by the site, but I have never had a problem. Sellers can't mention cash in listings, but if a buyer brings it up in post-sale emails there's nothing ebay can do

[Andara Bledin]

* said practice is deemed "unsafe" by the site, but I have never had a problem. Sellers can't mention cash in listings, but if a buyer brings it up in post-sale emails there's nothing ebay can do

It's deemed unsafe by anyone who's ever dealt with a scummy seller (or buyer), or even really considered the idea.

There is absolutely zero way to prove to anyone that you sent cash. With some sellers, you might as well just have burned it. Oh, and scummy buyers send too little (or nothing) and claim the seller is the one trying to cheat.

Then again, if the mail service loses it (or steals it), then not only do neither the seller nor buyer get the money, but both sides end up thinking the other side is a lying shit.

^-.-^

[Evil Queen]

I tried to buy 20 USD worth of Euros off a nice Norwegion yesterday. He wouldn't bite though. *sighs* I would have paid it at face value too! 20 Dollars for 20 Euros!

[crazylegs]

I tried to buy 20 USD worth of Euros off a nice Norwegion yesterday. He wouldn't bite though. *sighs* I would have paid it at face value too! 20 Dollars for 20 Euros!

Hmmm, I don't think I would have bitten either for sterling...