Off Topic 2012

[C the Lyte]

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Sun Drop slushie.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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I feel violated.......Phone rang and the computer said if you are a senior citizen listen to this, medicare, medicaid.......I was like whoa whoa whoa, I'm 33 damn it. But they could have been calling because my wife is 48.

[kingkilla56]

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I feel violated.......Phone rang and the computer said if you are a senior citizen listen to this, medicare, medicaid.......I was like whoa whoa whoa, I'm 33 damn it. But they could have been calling because my wife is 48.

I hope I'm not this dilusional when I get to your age. they called him tellin him to update his Medicare as a senior citizen yet he still won't accept it.

[AUChase]

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GMSS is the oldest 33 year old person on this planet.

Aggravated at Sonic. I asked for a slush and they gave me a regular drink.. meh.

[SidVish]

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This single mom could afford to spend $140 at a restaurant but couldn't leave a tip.

SMH.

[gerg1234]

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handwriting looks different.

I'm saying it's fake.

[SidVish]

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Who knows? I'd bet it's real because it was probably posted by a pissed off waiter/waitress.

Anyway, here's the article I read from yahoo.

Waiters and waitresses are up in arms over a restaurant receipt posted on Reddit, for which a customer used her status as a single parent to avoid leaving a tip.

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The $138.35 was paid with a Visa credit card, but in the space for a gratuity, someone simply wrote, "single mom sorry." And, at the bottom of the bill, a compliment: "Thank you it was great."

Related: 15 Secrets Your Waiter Will Never Tell You

"I'm sure $140 could have gotten you and your kids a week's worth of groceries, but instead you spend it on one meal?!" PhoenixSongFawkes, who posted a photo of the receipt on Reddit, wrote. "For shame!"

"And this is why many restaurants automatically charge you X% for a tip when the bill is above a certain amount, or there are a certain number of people in the party," Szos pointed out. "People are scumbags."

WATCH: How a Single Mom Avoided Foreclosure

But it's not the lack of a tip that's upsetting servers. It's the fact that the customer took the time to whine about being a single mom—and then rubbed salt into the wound by saying the service and the meal were fine.

"It doesn't matter if she tipped or not," wrote PhoenixSongFawkes, who has been a server for seven years and posted the photo for a friend. "The point of this post was that her writing 'sorry single mom' was unnecessary."

Given that waiters earn much less than minimum wage, they rely on their tips in order to earn enough money to pay the bills.

"I wish everyone could work one week as a server and then try to tell me it's not hard. The better you are at it, the easier it becomes, but it can still be very tough. Mentally and physically exhausting. And the fact is, we make $2.13 an hour," explained PhoenixSongFawkes. "If restaurants ever did change to just minimum wage, good servers would be hard to find. Because no one would work like that and put up with that for minimum wage."

Some readers were quick to point out that tipping is not the norm in other countries. Others refused to believe that the receipt was real.

"Looks fake. Handwriting doesn't match between the tip note and the thank you note," notbob1959 wrote. "Customer probably left tip in cash so the tip line was left blank."

But most readers recalled their own experiences as waiters and waitresses, and were furious on the waiter's behalf.

"If you're going to eat at a nice restaurant, the tip is part of that experience," Wrote Vikaroo. "If you're a single mom, maybe you should take that $140 and take your kids to Chuck-e-cheese instead."

"Or... spend it on 2 weeks of groceries as well as a couple nights of extremely good home cooked feasts," gryts suggested.

We haven't been able to confirm whether the receipt is for real, but the idea makes us wonder: Is it ever OK to leave an excuse instead of a tip?

http://shine.yahoo.com/work-money/single-mom-sorry-ever-ok-leave-excuse-instead-165700123.html

[Gotmadskillzson]

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You ever dozed off and feel like you about to drop something like a glass or a remote so you instantly wake up and say oh crap I just dropped and then there is nothing on the floor ?

[l3ulvl]

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You ever dozed off and feel like you about to drop something like a glass or a remote so you instantly wake up and say oh crap I just dropped and then there is nothing on the floor ?

[Gotmadskillzson]

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oh you so funny..........

[DonkeyJote]

Once I put my friend in the Crippler Crossface, or whatever Benoits move was, then my friend put him in a Walls of Jericho and we were dumb kids messing around...that kid was crying for hours man.

Another time I bet my friend I could get my knee past the height of his head which led to me accidentally knocking two of his teeth out. I spent the next 4 years I lived in that neighborhood hiding from his mom. That lady was crazy but my friend never told on me. Has to be one of the dumbest things I've done in my life to this day.

One my first night at Syracuse the RA convinced us to go to the campus cemetery and play man hunt. Then we lost one of the residents there. That was pretty messed up for her. She was a gothic chuck though so she probably performed a seance or something.

One time when I was a kid, me and my dad wrestling around. I was probably like 14, so we were about the same size. Anyway, totally put him in a cross breaker and might have dislocated his shoulder a little. I felt bad.

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[ImTellinTim]

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Speaking of falling asleep, I was watching a very boring webinar all afternoon with a group of coworkers and the boss yesterday. At one point I caught myself nodding off and starting a snore. Turned it into a cough and no one noticed.

[rspencer86]

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Fake, handwriting is completely different.

[AUChase]

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Some of the best sleep/naps are had in the weirdest places.

Especially back in school...

I've bounced my head off the desk a time or two, while propping up and trying to sleep without being noticed. My elbow would slip off the desk and there was no preventing it.

Hell, there are some days where I try it here at work. I open my emails in outlook and look the other way.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Give me a comfy chair and I'm gone......I will fall asleep quick. Never could fall asleep at school or on the trains, it was always too much noise and the chairs were too hard.