Customer gives sick waitress $1,000 tip

April 27, 2001 8:37 AM

Customer gives sick waitress $1,000 tip
i love hearing stories like this, it bolsters my faith in people.
posted by bwg (13 comments total)

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.
posted by tiaka at 9:07 AM on April 27, 2001

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.
posted by barkingmoose at 9:15 AM on April 27, 2001

Ah, MetaFilter.

Proving that every silver lining is enveloped by a dark cloud. :-)
posted by baylink at 9:20 AM on April 27, 2001

(sigh) If she hadn't gone to work, everyone would be bitching that she "wasn't trying hard enough".
posted by jpoulos at 9:56 AM on April 27, 2001

There's silver here? Let's strip-mine!
posted by aaron at 10:28 AM on April 27, 2001

Strip your what, Aaron?
posted by kindall at 10:58 AM on April 27, 2001

Maybe she was sick with a sprained wrist or a urinary tract infection--neither of these illnesses would contaminate your food.
posted by brittney at 11:10 AM on April 27, 2001

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.
posted by paulrockNJ at 11:49 AM on April 27, 2001

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!
posted by fuzzygeek at 2:13 PM on April 27, 2001

Not many waitresses get paid sick days, bm. And with a kid as well...
posted by snowmelter at 4:40 PM on April 27, 2001

fuzzy, oh yeah, it's 28 bucks over at my bank. Jesus that guy's an asshole.
posted by tiaka at 5:14 PM on April 27, 2001

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.
posted by steve_high at 10:49 PM on April 27, 2001

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>
posted by Danelope at 9:58 AM on April 28, 2001