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Post number 7281

bwg — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 08:37:09 -0800

Customer gives sick waitress $1,000 tip
i love hearing stories like this, it bolsters my faith in people.

By: tiaka

tiaka — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:07:22 -0800

This seems to happen a lot these days. Remember that other story on how one guy gave a check for $30k? She got all excited and stuff, went to deposit the check only to find it bounce several days later, so, in the end, she didn't even get 15% tip, she got 0% tip. Talk about cheap. Luckily because of the publicity and all the owner thought it'd be good work to give her $30k himself, they got another story and the name was mentioned, I bet got some customers.

By: barkingmoose

barkingmoose — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:15:06 -0800

This is clearly one of those "random acts of kindness" stories, but the one thing that sticks out for me (call me a cynic) is that this woman continued to work as a waitress despite the fact that she was ill. If there are two things that shouldn't go together, it's illness and food service. I'm hoping she used at least some of that cash to get a shot of penicillin or something.

By: baylink

baylink — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:20:00 -0800

Ah, MetaFilter. Proving that every silver lining is enveloped by a dark cloud. :-)

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:56:10 -0800

(sigh) If she hadn't gone to work, everyone would be bitching that she "wasn't trying hard enough".

By: aaron

aaron — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:28:45 -0800

There's silver here? Let's strip-mine!

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:58:15 -0800

Strip your what, Aaron?

By: brittney

brittney — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:10:28 -0800

Maybe she was sick with a sprained wrist or a urinary tract infection--neither of these illnesses would contaminate your food.

By: paulrockNJ

paulrockNJ — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 11:49:06 -0800

i love it when things like these happen....like when that guy who looked a lot like Nicholas Cage went into a diner and didn't have enough money to tip the waitress but he promised her if his lottery ticket one, she would get half the money...and when it did win he actually followed through with it. wait. oops, that was a movie. well, it's nice to see things like these happen in real life.

By: fuzzygeek

fuzzygeek — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 14:13:00 -0800

went to deposit the check only to find it bounce several days later, so, in the end, she didn't even get 15% tip, she got 0% tip. and i'll bet the bank slapped her with a $25 bounced-check penalty!

By: snowmelter

snowmelter — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 16:40:04 -0800

Not many waitresses get paid sick days, bm. And with a kid as well...

By: tiaka

tiaka — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 17:14:35 -0800

fuzzy, oh yeah, it's 28 bucks over at my bank. Jesus that guy's an asshole.

By: steve_high

steve_high — Fri, 27 Apr 2001 22:49:09 -0800

Tiaka, I believe the amount was $10,000, not $30K. And, like the present instance, the tip was left on a credit card not paid by check. The story was reported once as having involved a bounced check, but all the other wire services and networks describe the credit card in great detail. Let's hope we don't read a story from North Carolina like this one in a few days.

By: Danelope

Danelope — Sat, 28 Apr 2001 09:58:14 -0800

Maybe she was sick with a sprained wrist or a urinary tract infection--neither of these illnesses would contaminate your food. Considering the quality of today's food service, I wouldn't be so sure about the latter. <grin>