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tip the scales
taketime
2 Jul 2004
everyone's hung up on rules and regulations. there are no rules. you don't have to tip a bad waitress. service-oriented occupations are exactly that. if they don't serve you adequately, they don't deserve your tip. it's not a regulation that you give the waitress a little extra. so last night i ate a a restaurant with so friends. i was tricked into going to a place i didn't want to go. i waited 20 minutes for a table, 10 minutes for drink orders, 10 more minutes for drinks, 15 minutes for food orders, 30 minutes for the food, 15 minutes for the checks, 10 minutes for the change. pitiful. the food was good, but not worth the wait. the waitress was rude and unprofessional: when i asked to substitute a side for a salad, she replied "we don't do that here". not once were we never offered ketchup or steak sauce, as there was none provided on the table. when the time came to leave, my friends each threw down 20%-25% tips, and scowled when i said i wasn't going to tip. they told me i was wrong and that if i ever worked in a restaurant i would understand. if i worked in a restaurant i wouldn't do a shitty job of it. tips are rewards for a job well done, not for a half-assed job.
on another note, i don't eat seafood. when my friends try to get me to taste their crablegs or whatever, i tell them i don't want anything to do with it and for them to enjoy it themselves. so the people i was with last night wanted me to eat crablegs and i told them i didn't want any because i know i don't like it. my friend tells me that i'm narrowminded and that i don't give anything a chance. it's fucking food. i know what i like and what i don't and he's going to tell me that i'm narrowminded because of it. that gets me irritated. trying new things is great, but trying old things you don't like is another.
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