From: capricorne@gmail.com   
      
   > On Dec 31, 2025 at 4:11:12 PM PST, "Capricorne"  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>  On Dec 31, 2025 at 11:57:44 AM PST, "shawn"   
   >>>   wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>  On Wed, 31 Dec 2025 10:13:22 -0700, anim8rfsk    
   >>>>  wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>>  Ubiquitous  wrote:   
   >>>>>>   In article <10ip638$3kkbb$2@dont-email.me>, atropos@mac.com wrote:   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   More and more restaurants around here are automatically adding tips   
   >>>>>>> to    the bill-- even for parties of just one or two-- as a mandatory   
   >>>>>>> charge.    They don't call them tips, since legally tips have to be   
   >>>>>>> voluntary. They    label them things like "staff health care fee" and   
   >>>>>>> "worker compensation    fee" and "living wage fee".   
   >>>>>>>   
   >>>>>>>   And of course even after they charge you one of those bullshit   
   >>>>>>> mandatory    fees, they still add the tip line at the bottom for you to   
   >>>>>>> pay them even    *more* money. Whenever I see one of these exciting new   
   >>>>>>> fees on the bill,    I just draw a line with an arrow from the tip line   
   >>>>>>> up to the fee, circle    it, and write, "That's your tip."   
   >>>>>>   
   >>>>>>   That reminds me; What's the deal with my FB feed containing several   
   >>>>>>  postings   
   >>>>>>   lecturing me to tip 40% and postings (suspiciously AI-generated) of   
   >>>>>>  people's  restaurant bills with comments written about the tip? I saw   
   >>>>>> one   in which the   
   >>>>>>   waiter presumably wrote on a bill with no tip that they were calling   
   >>>>>> the    cops.   
   >>>>   
   >>>>  LOL. If a waiter ever wrote such a thing I would definitely not tip.   
   >>>>  Even if I loved their service. Just to see if they were foolish enough   
   >>>>  to call the cops out for my deciding not to offer an optional   
   >>>>  gratuity.   
   >>>   
   >>>  This.   
   >>>   
   >>>  I would *so* call their bluff.   
   >>   
   >> I wonder if Trump tips. Funny, just thinking about it we seem to know   
   >> the answer, no?   
   >   
   > When we first picked up Trump as a protectee during the 2016 campaign, he   
   > would routinely hand out $100 bills to all the staff and crew working his   
   > golf rounds. He even tried to hand them to us on his detail but we had to   
   > (reluctantly) tell him that as government employees we weren't allowed to   
   > take tips.   
   >   
   > Those are facts, as opposed to your baseless speculation.   
      
      
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